Pro Tips #14: DCOM Hardening

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Microsoft DCOM changes are coming soon so its best to be prepared before your information systems run into issues. Details and reports can be found in our DCOM hardening blog post.

[Guest]

For testing purposes, I added the registry key, rebooted, rescanned my asset in Lansweeper and ran the DCOM hardening settings report but my device still shows as not having the key. Did I miss something obvious?

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[Esben_D]

Guest wrote:
For testing purposes, I added the registry key, rebooted, rescanned my asset in Lansweeper and ran the DCOM hardening settings report but my device still shows as not having the key. Did I miss something obvious?

Make sure to go to the asset's page and click the rescan button. This ensures that a full rescan is done. Otherwise scans adhere to the scanning item interval: https://www.lansweeper.com/knowledgebase/managing-how-often-specific-data-is-scanned/