Checklist Summary:

Ansible is an open source, cross-platform configuration management solution used to define and enforce system and application configurations. This package provides Ansible configurations that implement most of the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 STIG. While the content has been tested during development, all possible system and environmental factors could not be tested. Before applying this content in a production environment, users are advised to test with the intended settings in their own test environment. There is no mandate to use this content; it is published as a resource to assist in the application of security guidance to the user’s systems. Use it in the manner and to the extent that it assists with this goal. Many Windows configuration settings can be applied using Group Policy. This Ansible configuration does not leverage Group Policy. Therefore, this content is most useful for systems that are not using Group Policy or to manage a subset of configuration settings that are not being managed through Group Policy. Ansible does not run natively on Windows. This documentation assumes the user will be running Ansible on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 host machine and targeting the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 machine via WinRM. This package uses basic authentication as a simple example of connecting to a Windows server via WinRM. For production use, consider configuring one of the more secure connection methods available.

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• Server

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• Managed
• Specialized Security-Limited Functionality (SSLF)

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Change History:

NEW checklist - 2/12/23
updated Status to FINAL - 3/13/23
Change to FINAL - 4/13/23

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NIST checklist record last modified on 04/13/2023