RE: Windows XP Services Best Practice

Be wary of using this one as it is downloaded. It is certainly secure;
but your users will not be able to work. I sent this to an admin as a
joke when we were rolling out AD and he applied it as it was downloaded
from the site with the expected result that we were so secure no one
could do anything other than log on.

Just sharing an experience.
-B-

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandros Papadopoulos [mailto:apapadop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:25 AM
To: focus-ms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Windows XP Services Best Practice

On Monday 05 June 2006 05:58, Vic Brown wrote:
Anyone has a useful link with with information about what XP Pro SP2
services should be "disabled" on enterprise desktops according to
"best" practice? Basically I'm looking for something that has the
service name, functionality, security implication, and best practice
recommendation. Desktop users are only running an office suite.

Try http://www.nsa.gov/snac/ - NSA's security configuration guides.

-A

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