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Database Scanner 3.0.1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Once you have completed the scan, prepare for the avalanche. There are several reports to choose from. Ignore every single one of them except the Summary of Violations report. It is the only one you will probably ever care about. This contains a concise breakdown of each violation that occurred. The rest provide all kinds of detail where 95%+ of the information simply tells you what passed the audit. Since I never care what passed, the rest of the reports hold no value for me. For those who want to tie up an irritating manager with reams of reports so that he/she thinks you are doing a lot of work, simply pump out all of the reports and drop them on his/her desk. You can easily go through a case of paper with these. The upside is that everything is neatly organized with a cover page, table of contents, etc. The downside is that they must have thought no one is going to run a full report since you are required to put it together by hand. You can download the reports from the scan I did on my test server here.
The password checking functionality is also available as a separate feature. By clicking the Password Strength button on the main screen, you will see the dialog below. You can only check one server at a time from here. It would have been nice to scan multiple servers at once. The same bug as was noted earlier with trusted connections still applies.
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