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MBSA is an easy-to-use tool designed for the IT professional that helps small and medium businesses determine their security state in accordance with Microsoft security recommendations and offers specific remediation guidance. Improve your security management process by using MBSA to detect common security misconfigurations and missing security updates on your computer systems.

Built on the Windows Update Agent and Microsoft Update infrastructure, MBSA ensures consistency with other Microsoft management products including Microsoft Update (MU), Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Systems Management Server (SMS) and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). Used by many leading third party security vendors including Tivoli, Patchlink and Citadel, MBSA on average scans over 3 million computers each week. Join the thousands of users that depend on MBSA for analyzing their security state.

New Features of Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0 :

· Severity Ratings
· Locally and remotely scan for Office XP or later security updates
· Added guidance for locating updates and necessary actions
· CVE-IDs for supported updates
· Improved help content
· Windows Server Update Services compatibility
· Automatic Microsoft Update registration and agent update
· Support for detection of updates on 64bit Windows and Windows XP Embedded

Localization :

• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer releases are available for German, Japanese, and French.
• The mssecure.xml file will be localized to these four languages and will be automatically downloaded and used by the tool when a German, Japanese, or French machine is scanned once they are available in the Microsoft Download Center.

Additional Product Support :

• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can scan for security updates in the following products:

· Microsoft Office (local scans only; see list of products)
· Exchange Server 2003
· MDAC 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8
· Microsoft Virtual Machine
· MSXML 2.5, 2.6, 3.0, and 4.0
· BizTalk Server 2000, 2002, and 2004
· Commerce Server 2000 and 2002
· Content Management Server 2001 and 2002
· Host Integration Server 2000, 2004, and SNA Server 4.0

Alternate File Version Support (allows multiple sets of file details to be checked in security updates scan)

Additional Configuration Checks :

• Internet Connection Firewall configuration check
• Automatic Updates configuration check
• Internet Explorer zone configuration checks (custom Internet Explorer zone interpretation, Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration checks for Windows Server 2003)
• MBSA tool version check (for new MBSA releases)

What's New in Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 Beta :

- MBSA 2.1 is an update to MBSA 2.0.1 to enable full Windows Vista compatibility.

What's New in MBSA 2.0.1 ?

• In order to maintain compatibility with Windows Update, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0.1 is now available.
· MBSA 2.0.1 is an update to MBSA 2.0 to enable compatibility with the new Windows Update (WU) offline scan file. (For information on the new scan file, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926464.) This fix enables MBSA to download and read the new file format.
· In order to run offline scans, MBSA 2.0 must have the scan file on the scanning machine. MBSA 2.0 automatically downloads this file if the scanning machine has Internet access. If not, the file must be downloaded and installed manually. MBSA 2.0.1 behaves in the same manner, except that it uses the new scan file.