Am sure many on these must have gone to similar exercise.. Finally got an approval to build a gold win2k8std-image for generic server rollout, but had to review and advice on all available guidelines and best practices. And I would like to tap on this vast knowledge pool of this list:
Considering, I am building a gold VM - Win2k8 Std.. 1) What should be the standard C drive.. (base install itself gobbles over 10GB) 2) What are the current published and credible hardening guidelines? 3) What security template tweaks everyone on this list has done on their builds ? 4) What Roles and features should be part of standard build.. i.e. Powershell, Telnet client? 5) Firewall rules: Apart from allowing ICMP response and RDP.. what else should be allowed? I know it has many variations, but any pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
