- Centralized Management and Baseline Portfolio: The centralized SCM management console provides you with a unified, user experience to plan, customize, and import and export security and compliance baselines. SCM gives you full access to a complete portfolio of recommended Microsoft product baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and applications.
- Baseline Customization: Customizing, merging, and reviewing your baselines just got easier. Now you can use the new customization capabilities of SCM to duplicate any of the recommended product baselines from Microsoft, and quickly modify security can compliance settings to meet the standards of your organization’s environment.
- Baseline Comparison and Export: SCM enables you to quickly adopt the latest Microsoft product releases. Side-by-side baseline comparison features allow you to identify any changes to setting configurations and merge baselines within a product family with ease. Export and deploy baselines in your format of choice, including DCM Configuration Packs, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), Microsoft® Excel® workbooks, Group Policy Objects (GPOs), or SCM .cab files.
- Baseline Compliance Monitoring and Verification: Keep current with the latest releases from Microsoft, automate your security baseline compliance process, and take advantage of baseline version control and automatic update features. The planning, customization, and export and import features of SCM quickly enable you to take advantage of monitoring and verification technologies, automate policy deployment, and produce compliance reports.