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BigFix Compliance</span></p>

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Updated CIS Checklist for MS SQL Server 2022 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">to support a more recent version of the benchmark</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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Benchmark:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
CIS Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Benchmark v1.3.0</span></p>

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Sites:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
CIS Checklist for MS SQL Server 2022,
site version 11<br>
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)</span></p>

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Fixlets: 5</span></p>

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Fixlets: 0</span></p>

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Site: 47</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">New </span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.14</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Updated</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.3,3.5,3.6,3.12,6.2 – Updated the
query logic</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Both analysis and remediation
checks are included</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Environment Setup task
utilizes atomic result refreshes, ensuring that existing results remain
available until new results are generated. Results now also include a
collection timestamp for better tracking and auditability.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Applicability Fixlet includes
additional validation, ensuring that the Environment Setup Task log file
exists, is not older than 90 days, and that results of files are present. This
ensures Fixlets are reported as Not Applicable, and that the Measured Value
(MV) correctly indicates that the Environment Setup Task has not been executed.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Some of the checks allow you to
use the parameterized setting to enable customization for compliance
evaluation. Note that parameterization and remediation actions require the
creation of a custom site.</span></p>

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     above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard to enable and
     gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigFix Compliance
     product, and you must be using BigFix version 10 and later.</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you use custom
     sites, update your custom sites accordingly to use the latest content. You
     can synchronize your content by using the Synchronize Custom Checks
     wizard. For more information, see<br>
     </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></li>
</ul>

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To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the
following resources:</span></p>

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     </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BigFix Compliance
     SCM Checklists:<br>
     </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/scm-checklists/86" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/scm-checklists/86</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></li>
</ul>

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release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!<br>
<i>– The BigFix Compliance team</i></span></p></div>