Configuration settings for the Internet Authentication Service (IAS) in Windows Server 2003 are stored in .MDB files. Configuration settings for Network Policy Server (NPS) in Windows Server 2008 are stored in .XML files. If you install Windows Server...

As you are already aware, the beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available to the public for beta testing. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2-Beta.aspx for more information and the link to download the beta. Here is...

Here is a guest posting from our NAP Partner Avenda Systems . When the founders of Avenda Systems decided to build a Policy Platform, one of the first stops included Microsoft. NAP was in the works and discussions with other industry experts...

Here is a question posed by a member of the NAP community: · What new traffic will there be on the network when I deploy NAP? A NAP deployment can have the following additional sets of network traffic: · Traffic between the NAP client and the...

Greetings fellow NAPologists! To get a better pulse on how things are going in the wild, the NAP product team has scheduled a series of TechNet online chats. This is your chance to speak directly with the experts, ask questions about the NAP platform...

Hey NAP fans! Our first in a series of online chats on Technet has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 29 at 1:00 PM PST. Here is the description: Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum Join...

The Hewlett-Packard (HP) ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) is a new partner alliance program for ProCurve, the networking division of HP. Microsoft is a key member in ProCurve ONE and an important element of the alliance is interoperability with NAP...

Greg Lindsay, our NAP product documentation writer, and I are not the only ones writing about NAP. NAP is also being described by Thomas Shinder and Brien M. Posey . Check out the following content by these industry experts. Thomas Shinder’s articles...

Heads up NAP fans! Today is our first in a series of online chats on Technet! Here is the description: Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session....

Here is a follow-up guest posting from our NAP Partner Avenda Systems . Due to the interest in our recent blog entry - Five Ways to Draw More Value from Microsoft NAP Deployments - we’ve decided to help customers kick off 2009 with a little cost...

Heads up NAP fans! Today is our first in a series of online chats on Technet! Here is the description: Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) with Network Policy Server (NPS) Open Forum Join the NAP and NPS experts for a live chat session....

Oops! Sorry for the inconvenience, but the TechNet online chat for NAP and NPS scheduled for today is not happening due to backend authentication difficulties. We are in the process of rescheduling this chat and will let you know in a future NAP...