The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer is a tool and framework that allows for the analysis of system elements against predefined "rules" to help users optimize their configurations and identify any known issues. The Microsoft BPA tool has a plug-in architecture and updater component that enables users to write their own BPA plug-ins and augment the rules documents of the plug-ins that are already released. If you decide to, you can contribute those changes you made back to the community, and everyone with the tool installed will automatically be notified that there are new plugins available.
The "official" signed version of the tool is available from MSDownloads (here), but the best place to go for the tool is the tool's official site on CodePlex:
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=BPAEngine
From the CodePlex site, you can file bugs on the tool, submit rules suggestions, get information on how to write new rules, and even download the source code for the ASP.NET 2.0 configuration plug-in (to help you write your own plug-in!)
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