Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Local volumes must use a format that supports NTFS attributes

STIG ID: WN16-00-000150 | SRG: SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048 | Severity: High | CCI: CCI-000213 | Vulnerability ID: V-224831

Description

The ability to set access permissions and auditing is critical to maintaining the security and proper access controls of a system. To support this, volumes must be formatted using a file system that supports NTFS attributes.

Check

Open "Computer Management".Select "Disk Management" under "Storage".For each local volume, if the file system does not indicate "NTFS", this is a finding."ReFS" (resilient file system) is also acceptable and would not be a finding.This does not apply to system partitions such the Recovery and EFI System Partition.

Fix

Format volumes to use NTFS or ReFS.