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The Security Compliance Management Toolkit series provides IT professionals like you with an end-to-end solution to help your organization plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications.

This Solution Accelerator is designed to help your organization meet its security and compliance requirements by providing the following resources:

• Prescriptive, tested, end-to-end security guidance from Microsoft for Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows XP® Professional SP3, Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server® 2003 SP2, and 2007 Microsoft Office SP1.
• Automated tools like the GPOAccelerator to help you configure and deploy recommended security settings.
• Configuration Packs for you to use with the desired configuration management (DCM) feature of Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 to monitor the Microsoft security guidance deployed in your environment. You can also remediate security baseline issues with this functionality.
• Reporting functionality you can use to notify auditors that the computers in your environment are in compliance with best practices and the security recommendations for these Windows operating systems and Office applications.