New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Larry — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:49:49 GMT

Where can we find information regarding error messages? We are testing this tool in order to provide a baseline for some of our systems. These systems do not have internet access and are in a workgroup. We have installed Win7 SP1 and the new SCM but when we attempt to duplicate one of the existing baselines for modficiation we get "XQuery [Setting.Check.modify()]: There is no function '(www.w3.org/.../xpath-functions):upper-case()". We can't diagnose the issue...

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Chris Muir CCP, CCSA — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:12:37 GMT

As I understand it the EC baselines were created in part with direction from the FDCC (Federal Desktop Core Configuration). The FDCC has been recently absorbed by the NIST sponsored USGCB (United States Government Configuration Baseline) and replaces the former FDCC security baseline configuration recommendations. Will the SCM be providing updates to the current EC baselines in accordance with the USGCB recommended settings either/or will the SCM soon be able to import the baselines provided by the USGCB in SCAP, OVAL and/or GPP Backup format so they can be managed with the SCM?

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Jeff Sigman MSFT — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:45:30 GMT

No worries! Nice - magic carpet! :) -jeff

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Anton — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:52:26 GMT

Jeff,

Ok, thanks for the update, looking forward for the solution to be able to install it on 2008 R2.

I will get my magic carpet ready for my trip to the Cloud... :-) !!!

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Jeff Sigman MSFT — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:17:02 GMT

Hey again Anton. I've heard from 3-5 people now that install is choking on 2008 R2 - I'm speaking with Test about this later today. :) We will figure it out and I might write a wiki article on how to get it working (if we can figure it out, which I don't doubt).

Yes, I thought that was what you meant. :) We will let you point to an existing SQL instance in SCM 2.0, but on the local machine. We won't support (or test) remote SQL. This is for one reason really - SCM wasn't designed to work with network latency between the surface (UI) and the database. It would be a pretty bad user experience.

We are going to solve this in SCM in the Cloud! That may be sooner than you think!

-jeff

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Anton — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:36:08 GMT

Jeff,

I haven't tried to install it on 2008 R2 yet, the guide only says Vista and Windows 7 for supported OS. So it can be installed on 2008 R2?

So when you say point to an existing SQL, the SQL Instance can't be on another server? ...that is what I meant by remote SQL.

Thanks,

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Jeff Sigman MSFT — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:55:15 GMT

Anton, I am just becoming aware of the installation problem on 2008 R2. Investigating now. Very strange that it won't install! Thanks for reporting this...

We are removing the SQL Express Only limitation next version, but we won't be doing remote SQL most likely until we do the "azure" version of SCM.

Thanks for using SCM!

-jeff

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Anton — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:57:52 GMT

Can we add support for SCM to be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 in the next version? Would love for it to be included with the Remote SQL option...

Thanks

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Jeff Sigman MSFT — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:25:56 GMT

Josh, thanks for reporting this! Whoops, sorry about the trouble!

blogs.technet.com/.../whoops-sorry-about-the-baseline-troubles.aspx

-Jeff

re: New version of SCM causes peace on Earth

Josh Townsend — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:19:23 GMT

The baseline downloads for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, IE8 are not functional from the SCM GUI or from the Baseline Download Help File - get a 404. Would love to have these baselines for my current project. Any chance of posting the .cab's here until the download.microsoft.com URL's are fixed?

Thanks,

Josh