Installation Note 43315: When using Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) security standards under Windows 7, do NOT select "Automatically log back on after reboot"
Federal agencies that are using the Windows 7 operating system
and complying with the United States Government Configuration
Baseline (USGCB) desktop security standards need to be
aware that using the automatic logon feature of SAS® Deployment
Wizard will violate federal desktop security policies.
After you start the SAS Deployment Wizard, Microsoft Runtime
Components 7.1, which is required by SAS®, is checked and any updates
that are needed are installed. The SAS Deployment Wizard then asks for logon credentials and a password so that it can automatically restart the system and log on the installer
after the updates are applied. The normal procedure is for the SAS Deployment Wizard to remove the automatic logon registry keys after the system is restarted
and after the installer is logged on again.
However, Windows 7 will not allow the automatic logon keys to be removed from
the registry after the system is restarted. Note that this is not
a problem under Windows XP or Windows Vista. This leaves the system
vulnerable to attack and violates the USGCB security policies.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3 | | 9.3 TS1M0 | |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3 | | 9.3 TS1M0 | |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3 | | 9.3 TS1M0 | |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3 | | 9.3 TS1M0 | |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Installation Note |
| Priority: | alert |
| Date Modified: | 2011-07-01 11:42:41 |
| Date Created: | 2011-05-19 12:56:00 |