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CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 STIG v3.0.0 L1 Domain Controller

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Audit Details

Name: CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 STIG v3.0.0 L1 Domain Controller

Updated: 10/30/2025

Authority: CIS

Plugin: Windows

Revision: 1.2

Estimated Item Count: 314

File Details

Filename: CIS_Microsoft_Windows_Server_2016_STIG_v3.0.0_L1_DC.audit

Size: 672 kB

MD5: 010eb512e211e4cd46d84913fd3493a0
SHA256: dfcdabb0c76d56243920fa6c2253fd3e66085f1a8f2389caa01724dd0d9b96ae

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
1.1.1 Ensure 'Enforce password history' is set to '24 or more password(s)'
1.1.2 Ensure 'Maximum password age' is set to '365 or fewer days, but not 0'
1.1.4 Ensure 'Minimum password age' is set to '1 or more day(s)'
1.1.5 Ensure 'Minimum password length' is set to '14 or more character(s)'
1.1.6 Ensure 'Password must meet complexity requirements' is set to 'Enabled'
1.1.7 Ensure 'Store passwords using reversible encryption' is set to 'Disabled'
1.2.1 Ensure 'Account lockout duration' is set to '15 or more minute(s)'
1.2.2 Ensure 'Account lockout threshold' is set to '5 or fewer invalid logon attempt(s), but not 0'
1.2.5 Ensure 'Reset account lockout counter after' is set to '15 or more minute(s)'
2.2.1 Ensure 'Access Credential Manager as a trusted caller' is set to 'No One'
2.2.2 Ensure 'Access this computer from the network' is set to 'Administrators, Authenticated Users, ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS' (DC only)
2.2.4 Ensure 'Act as part of the operating system' is set to 'No One'
2.2.5 Ensure 'Add workstations to domain' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.6 Ensure 'Adjust memory quotas for a process' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.7 Ensure 'Allow log on locally' is set to 'Administrators, ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS' (DC only)
2.2.8 Ensure 'Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.10 Ensure 'Back up files and directories' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.11 Ensure 'Change the system time' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE'
2.2.12 Ensure 'Change the time zone' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE'
2.2.13 Ensure 'Create a pagefile' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.14 Ensure 'Create a token object' is set to 'No One'
2.2.15 Ensure 'Create global objects' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE'
2.2.16 Ensure 'Create permanent shared objects' is set to 'No One'
2.2.17 Ensure 'Create symbolic links' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.19 Ensure 'Debug programs' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.20 Ensure 'Deny access to this computer from the network' to include 'Guests' (DC only)
2.2.23 Ensure 'Deny log on as a batch job' to include 'Guests'
2.2.25 Ensure 'Deny log on as a service' to include 'Guests'
2.2.28 Ensure 'Deny log on locally' to include 'Guests'
2.2.30 Ensure 'Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services' to include 'Guests' (DC only)
2.2.33 Ensure 'Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.35 Ensure 'Force shutdown from a remote system' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.36 Ensure 'Generate security audits' is set to 'LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.37 Ensure 'Impersonate a client after authentication' is set to 'Administrators, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE' (DC only)
2.2.40 Ensure 'Increase scheduling priority' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.41 Ensure 'Load and unload device drivers' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.42 Ensure 'Lock pages in memory' is set to 'No One'
2.2.44 Ensure 'Manage auditing and security log' is set to 'Administrators' (DC only)
2.2.47 Ensure 'Modify an object label' is set to 'No One'
2.2.48 Ensure 'Modify firmware environment values' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.49 Ensure 'Perform volume maintenance tasks' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.50 Ensure 'Profile single process' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.51 Ensure 'Profile system performance' is set to 'Administrators, NT SERVICE\WdiServiceHost'
2.2.52 Ensure 'Replace a process level token' is set to 'LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE'
2.2.53 Ensure 'Restore files and directories' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.54 Ensure 'Shut down the system' is set to 'Administrators'
2.2.55 Ensure 'Synchronize directory service data' is set to 'No One' (DC only)
2.2.56 Ensure 'Take ownership of files or other objects' is set to 'Administrators'
2.3.1.1 Ensure 'Accounts: Block Microsoft accounts' is set to 'Users can't add or log on with Microsoft accounts'
2.3.1.4 Ensure 'Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only' is set to 'Enabled'