Windows Server 2008 Scenarios Part IV
“Finally it’s time for the next scenario in the Windows Server 2008 series, Security and Policy Enforcement. Since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 were designed to be together we get some of the security enhancements we saw in Vista, like BitLocker Drive Encryption and Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. One thing worth noticing with Bitlocker in Windows Server 2008 is that you can now encrypt both the system volume and the data volume.
We get some new possibilities in auditing of Active Directory access. In previous versions we had one policy for auditing; now we get four:
Directory Service Access
Directory Service Changes
Directory Service Replication
Detailed Directory Service Replication
The one called Directory Service Changes makes it possible to audit create, modify, move, and undelete commands and both the old and new value are stored in the log.
The TechNet Magazine had an interesting article about Directory Services that you can find here
Another new feature that I mentioned in a previous post is Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC). A colleague of mine in the US, Keith Combs, did a blog post and screen cast demo of this. Check it out here.
Last thing I want to mention is NAP, Network Access Protection, which can prevent unhealthy computers from accessing your network. You, as an administrator, create policies that define what a healthy computer for your organization is. This could be having certain applications installed, the latest antivirus signatures and running Windows Firewall. When you try to access the network with your computer the router will check with the policy server whether the computer is “healthy” or not. If it is you get a health certificate and can access the network. If not, you can be redirected to an isolated network to get the updates you need and then do the check again. You can also configure NAP to enforce policies by turning the Windows Firewall on if you turn it off. There’s a lot of information on NAP available and if you are considering to implement this, it’s something you should plan for well in advance, so get started now!
We also get some PKI enhancements, Windows Server Hardening and I think we can see Server Core as a Security option.
I’m in Seattle now for an internal training so hopefully I will get some cool product news to share later next week :)”
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