Every organization faces security threats. However, the types of security threats that are of most concern to one organization can be completely different from another organization. The one thing that all organizations have in common is a need to keep their apps and devices secure. These devices must be compliant with the security standards (or security baselines) defined by the organization.This is a time-consuming process, most times it requires manually applying security baselines by building out management policies or golden images.We have created a custom Windows server 2022 Azure Edition VM that leverages an in-house developed script to automatically harden the operating system using Microsoft Security Baselines at deployment time.