{"id":214,"date":"2007-10-23T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T08:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/windows-server-2008-what%e2%80%99s-new-what%e2%80%99s-changed-part-10-of-12-chapter-9-%e2%80%93-security-the-windows-firewall-with-advanced-security\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T03:12:02","slug":"windows-server-2008-what%e2%80%99s-new-what%e2%80%99s-changed-part-10-of-12-chapter-9-%e2%80%93-security-the-windows-firewall-with-advanced-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/windows-server-2008-what%e2%80%99s-new-what%e2%80%99s-changed-part-10-of-12-chapter-9-%e2%80%93-security-the-windows-firewall-with-advanced-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008:  What\u2019s New \/ What\u2019s Changed Part #10 of 12:  Chapter 9 \u2013 Security &#038; the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This snippet from Chapter 9 of Greg Shields&rsquo; new book Windows Server 2008: What&rsquo;s New \/ What&rsquo;s Changed is brought to you by SAPIEN Press. Get your pre-release copy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapienpress.com\/Windows_Server_08.asp\">http:\/\/www.sapienpress.com\/Windows_Server_08.asp<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>User Account Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For many Vista users, UAC is a four-letter word. Seeing that elevation prompt over and over again when doing administrative work on a Vista box can be enough to pull your hair out. But there&rsquo;s value in keeping it, because the Admin Approval Mode (AAM) prompt is only part of the protection UAC provides. In Server 2008, UAC isn&rsquo;t going anywhere. Microsoft intends it and the splitting of your administrator access token to be a critical part of securing operating systems for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>With Server 2008 there is a slightly different way that UAC operates with the built-in administrator account. The AAM prompt is disabled by default for the built-in administrator account in both Vista and Server 2008. But, whereas Vista&rsquo;s built-in administrator account is disabled by default, with Server 2008 it&rsquo;s a much needed component. With the changes to Server 2008&rsquo;s installation routine, manual installations require the use of the built-in account for the initial logon and configuration.<\/p>\n<p>More info and links to all the posts in this series at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtime-windowsserver.com\/type\/mt-search.cgi?tag=windows%20server%202008%3A%20what%27s%20new%20what%27s%20changed&amp;blog_id=1\">Greg&rsquo;s Realtime Windows Server Community&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This snippet from Chapter 9 of Greg Shields&rsquo; new book Windows Server 2008: What&rsquo;s New \/ What&rsquo;s Changed is brought to you by SAPIEN Press. Get your pre-release copy at http:\/\/www.sapienpress.com\/Windows_Server_08.asp. User Account Control For many Vista users, UAC is a four-letter word. Seeing that elevation prompt over and over again when doing administrative work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}