title: Automating CIS Hardening benchmarks for Windows Server
body: <p>It seems that CIS benchmarks on Hardening for Windows Server is more then 700 pages and if there are multitude of servers, doing manually is a challenge.</p>
  
  <p>I wonder, how does one really automate the entire process for windows, maybe via some kind of configuration tools or different way ?</p>
  
  <p>We tried going the ready made AMI way, but challenge is that lot of things do not seem to work and we can't even trace on which CIS rule caused the break because there are too many rules.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions will be appreciated !</p>