Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.1.1 is a minor upgrade to add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

• To easily assess the security state of Windows machines, Microsoft offers the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) scan tool. MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Microsoft Windows systems.
  
  MBSA 2.1.1 builds on previous versions by adding support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As with the previous MBSA 2.1 release, MBSA includes 64-bit installation, security update and vulnerability assessment (VA) checks, improved SQL Server 2005 checks, and support for the latest Windows Update Agent (WUA) and Microsoft Update technologies. More information on the capabilities of MBSA 2.1 and 2.1.1 is available on the MBSA Web site.
  
  MBSA 2.1.1 runs on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems and will scan for missing security updates, rollups and service packs using Microsoft Update technologies. MBSA will also scan for common security misconfigurations (also called Vulnerability Assessment checks) using a known list of less secure settings and configurations for all versions of Windows, Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000, 2002 and 2003 only.
  
  To assess missing security updates, MBSA will only scan for missing security updates, update rollups and service packs available from Microsoft Update. MBSA will not scan or report missing non-security updates, tools or drivers.
  
  Choose the appropriate download below for English (EN), German (DE), French (FR) and Japanese (JA) for x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) platforms.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	SHA1 Hash	Size
MBSASetup-x64-DE.msi	cc585310de966eab0aaa93eec9eddde5d8d3be1e	1.26 MB
MBSASetup-x64-EN.msi	47c028c61fb91e4f8bc25ea43a74ef2d4eb41eb3	1.25 MB
MBSASetup-x64-FR.msi	9682978c2abe09d013796d34ca5225c7b6716477	1.26 MB
MBSASetup-x64-JA.msi	342476f10a011840f6403e5a99508cac1289953a	1.25 MB
MBSASetup-x86-DE.msi	63cf62b9d22a731c360188ac7bee7e3ea21eb36f	1.13 MB
MBSASetup-x86-EN.msi	36ce4e098f381fc7bed7dc7be24c8fed7b716202	1.12 MB
MBSASetup-x86-FR.msi	e20be524e81b82f304681e5eed6fc2bd8d12110a	1.13 MB
MBSASetup-x86-JA.msi	46d39bb6f9bd8e98a0589b17843e3b288d18be3a	1.13 MB

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000


More detailed system requirements are outlined in the main help and readme.html file that is
included in the tool. More information is also available at the MBSA Web site.

• Note: Please view the readme.html file before running MBSA the first time. The readme.html file contains important information on system requirements, scan options, and tool support options.
  
  
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