I’m Carol Bailey, Senior Technical Writer for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (formally SMS 2003), and I’m involved with many of the security-related features in Configuration Manager – including Internet-based client management, desired configuration...

Hey! My name is Mike Burk. I am a Program Manager on the Windows Security team. My team is responsible for the out-of-the-box NAP experience in Windows XP SP3, Vista and Server 2008. It is called the Windows Security Health Agent (client-side) and Validator...

My previous guest post walked you through what was happening in the background with Configuration Manager NAP when a noncompliant computer connected to the network, and was restricted and remediated for a software update. This post follows up with some...

It’s official! The NAP Client for XP, which is included in Windows XP Service Pack 3, has officially released to manufacturing today . I am over the moon. Man, it is good to have this released! In case you haven’t read my MANY posts on this topic...

I just got back from San Francisco where I was speaking to anyone who would listen about how NAP is changing the world. :-> I wanted to share the video I put together of the trip to give you a flavor of what it was like to be there. My effort leading...

A couple of people emailed me today and asked that I highlight the NAP Partners who were in the video and participated in the NAP Partner Pavilion @ RSA . Check it out below! Avenda Systems Avenda Systems delivers comprehensive...

Recently, I was able to get my hands on a product from Foundry Networks while building out my NAP 802.1X Interoperability Showcase for RSA . Specifically, I was able to get the “ Foundry FastIron Edge 4802-POE ” 802.1X switch working flawlessly with NAP...

I suddenly realized this morning I never posted anything about my trip in February down to Los Angeles CA to launch the biggest product of my 11 year career at Microsoft – Windows Server 2008 . Whoops. :-> I made a 3 part video of my experience...

A colleague of mine pointed out an AMAZING blog post on the Windows Server Customer Advisory Team (WinCAT) team blog - The Definitive Guide to NAP Logging . This is a kick butt troubleshooting post! Very useful when trying to track down what is wrong...

While I was down in San Francisco for RSA a couple weeks ago a buddy of mine, Jeff Wettlaufer , interviewed me on the show floor to find out what was going on at the show and discuss NAP + SCCM . We adlibbed over 90% of it (I don’t believe in scripts...