Rolling Back Windows Using SetWin
When the hardening fails, an operation fails, or services are affected, you must perform rollback operations.
Prerequisites
The eSight service is stopped.
Context
Before eSight reinstallation or upgrade, roll back the security hardening. Otherwise, the reinstallation or upgrade may fail.
You can roll back Windows to the initial status or a backup point.
- Initial status: indicates Windows status at the first backup point. To roll back to the initial status, select the initial policy file.
- Backup point: indicates a point at which hardening policies are backed up. To roll back to a backup point, select the related backup policy file. Backup policy files are created during security hardening.
Procedure
- Log in to Windows as the SWMaster user.
- Choose Policy > Rollback on the SetWin (Online Mode) page.
- In the dialog box that is displayed, click Yes.
- Select the backup file and roll back the operating system of the eSight server to the pre-hardened state.
The backup file is generated during Hardening the Windows Operating System Using SetWin.
- When the system displays the message Rollback completed, click OK.
The system displays the message Please restart system to affect all policies. Do you want to restart now?.
- Click Yes to restart the system.
After the security of the operating system is rolled back, the administrator account restores to be Administrator, the guest account restores to be guest, but the password remains unchanged.