Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 (for IT Pro.x)

In response to direct customer need for a streamlined method to identify common security misconfigurations, Microsoft offers the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) scan tool. It includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Microsoft Windows systems.

MBSA 2.1 builds on previous versions by adding support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. MBSA 2.1 also provides full 64-bit installation, scan tool and vulnerability assessment (VA) checks, improved SQL Server 2005 checks, and support for the latest Windows Update Agent (WUA) and Microsoft Update technologies. More information on the capabilities of MBSA 2.1 is available on the MBSA Web site.

MBSA 2.1 runs on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems and will scan for common security misconfigurations on all Windows platforms and components including Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0, and 6.0, SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000, 2002 and 2003.

MBSA also scans for missing security updates, update rollups and service packs available from Microsoft Update.

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System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
  

System requirements are outlined in the main help and readme.html file that is
included in the tool. More information is also available at the MBSA Web site.


Instructions

Note: Please view the readme.html file before executing the tool. The readme.html file contains important information on system requirements, scan options, and tool support options.

1. Click the Download
   button on this page to start the download.
   
2. Do one of the following:
   
   
   
   • To start the installation immediately, click
     Open or Run this program from its current location.
     
   • To copy the download to your computer for installation at a
     later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.
     

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Additional Information

Please refer to the MBSA Web site for answers to commonly asked questions about this and other Microsoft security tools.

For further information about product detection capability, refer to the detection support article

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