An interesting but also somewhat complicated element of deploying a network access method with or without a NAP health evaluation is the use of digital certificates. Digital certificates can be used to provide strong authentication for remote access VPN...

NAP Clients for Linux and Macintosh are available from Avenda and UNETsystem, Inc. Avenda The Avenda Linux NAP Agent includes 802.1X enforcement, the Avenda System Health Agent (SHA), and the Avenda Linux NAP Agent System Health Validator (SHV)...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST) EAP type from Cisco Systems, Inc. has been certified for compatibility with Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 and is now available from...

Greetings NAP fans! The Network Access Protection Deployment Guide , authored by our very own technical writer and NAP Forum hero Greg Lindsay, is now live! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd314175.aspx The NAP Deployment Guide provides...

In a previous NAP blog entry , I listed NAP training solutions from Microsoft. Here is a list of Microsoft Learning certification courses that contain NAP content: · Course 6435A: Designing a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure · Course 6431A...

Greetings practitioners of NAPinetics! The "Nortel and Microsoft Discuss Network Access Control" Webcast that I recorded with Matt Oshida and Terry Singleton of Nortel is now available for viewing at: http://www2.nortel.com/go/events_detail.jsp...

The "How Microsoft does IT: Managing Network Access Protection" TechNet WebCast, recorded on Tuesday, November 11 by Brent Scallan, Senior Systems Engineer with Microsoft IT, and Pat Fetty, Principal Program Manager with the Windows Customer Advisory...

Greetings NAP fans! I will be teaming up with Nortel to present " Nortel and Microsoft Present Secure Network Access 2.0 " on Tuesday, November 18, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM (Pacific Time). See http://www.nortel.com/products/01/contivity/collateral...

In a previous blog entry , I talked about the very cool blog written by the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team in Customer Service and Support (CSS). Louis Hardy, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer and member of a virtual team of CSS engineers...

Heads up, NAP-meisters! On Tuesday, November 11, at 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada), our very own Brent Scallan, Senior Systems Engineer with Microsoft IT, and Pat Fetty, Principal Program Manager with the Windows Customer Advisory Team, will...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an integrated platform with tools and guidance that make it easier for you to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your needs. The MAP Toolkit 3...

Greetings NAP and NPS fans! The Network Policy Server Technical Reference , authored by Senior Technical Writer Jim McIllece, is now live! This resource is a treasure trove of deep technical information about the Network Policy Server (NPS) service...

Hey NAPolytes! On September 23, I posted an entry on a new Forrester report on Network Access Control for the third quarter of 2008, which placed Microsoft’s NAP as the leader of the top four network access control (NAC) vendors. Click here for details...

Hey NAP fans! Back in 2006, I had the idea of creating “white paper Webcasts,” or Webcast versions of important and popular white papers on networking technologies. I created a series of white paper Webcasts for wireless security technologies, IPv6...

On Tuesday, Dan Wolff, George Younan, and I delivered the “Microsoft and McAfee: Implementing Network Access Control in Microsoft Environments” breakout session at McAfee’s Focus 08 Security Conference. Dan Wolff is a Group Solution Marketing Manager...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an integrated platform with tools and guidance that make it easier for you to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your IT needs. The existing...

Hey NAP friends! The Network Access Protection Design Guide , authored by our very own technical writer and NAP Forum hero Greg Lindsay, is now live! http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130154 The NAP Design Guide explains the advantages,...

Hey NAP fans! Great news from the documentation front: The Network Access Protection Design Guide from our intrepid technical writer and NAP Forum hero Greg Lindsay is going to be published this Thursday, Oct 9! This is part of the suite of guides...

We have had several questions lately about the WSHA/WSHV so we figured it was time to provide an update to what we previously posted last year. The WSHA is the SHA delivered with Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3. The WSHV is the SHV delivered with...

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002748 This detailed case study provides details on the solution, hardware, and the key benefits of deploying NAP with 802.1X enforcement at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana...

In my previous blog post, System Health Agents (SHAs) that are available from Microsoft , I described the SHAs (and their corresponding system health validators [SHVs]) that you can use with Windows Security Center in Windows Vista and Windows XP with...

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 support the Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) and the Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2 (MS-CHAP v2) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication methods for PEAP...

Greetings, keepers of the NAP flame! On August 2, Information Week published an article titled “ Rolling Review: Microsoft NAP .” I would like to comment on it on behalf of the NAP product team and add technical clarity where I can. 1. Opening paragraph...

This is the first in a series of NAP blog entries to shine a light on the efforts of our NAP partners to develop and deliver integrated products and solutions for the NAP platform. In this entry, Margaret Dawson, Vice President of Marketing for...

Hey NAP fans! The Network Access Protection (NAP) product team is proud to announce the publication of a new Forrester WAVE report on Network Access Control for the third quarter of 2008, which places Microsoft’s NAP as the leader of the top four network...