Examining the Scan Report
Before I talk about the scan report, I want to point out that you shouldn't rush into making changes according to ExBPA's results. You can easily break things by blindly tweaking settings, so resist the temptation to immediately fix everything that ExBPA reports. Wait until you've researched the suggested settings and understand the impact of any changes before you touch anything. In addition, remember that you might have made specific configuration changes that are right for your environment but that differ from ExBPA's recommendations—it's important to think before you accept all of ExBPA's suggestions.
That said, the first thing you'll see is a summary page that shows which servers ExBPA located, as Web Figure 2 shows. Each server will have an icon next to it that indicates whether the server was completely scanned, partially scanned, or not scanned at all. This summary view has a link that you can click to see a detailed report. When you click the link, the first report that you see by default is the Critical Issues list. As you'd expect, this list shows the items that you should probably focus on fixing first. If you don't find any items in this list, good for you! If you do see items in this list (e.g., SMTP relaying problems, page table entries, out-of-date Exchange binary files), you should plan to fix them after you understand what the fix entails. . . .
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