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Microsoft no longer supports the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) tool, however the tool still serves a meaningful purpose for CeRTNA's fundamental baseline security review.

Although the MBSA tool is not fundamentally supported under Windows 10, it does work, however, some tweaks may be required in order to obtain a clean (Strong Security) MBSA report. These tweaks are outlined below.

Tip 1:

The MBSA tools must be able to communicate with a master Windows Update catalog. In some environments this catalog is served up from a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server. If the MBSA tools has difficulty communicating with the WSUS server, you will see an indication of this in your report.

To overcome this condition you can use