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...

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)...

I’ve heard from a lot of folks who set up NAP in a lab who would love to have more information on all the great data that Network Policy Server (NPS) writes into the audit log. If you haven’t checked out our auditing, go to Server Manager and click on the main node for our role (Network Policy and Access Services). You will see all related NAP server events at the top of the right hand pane. This will be part 1 in a series of “Debugging NAP” posts. I decided to kick it off by examining the messages / errors which come from our Windows Security Center NAP integration piece (included in XP SP3, Vista and Server 2008). It is called the Windows System Health Agent on the client (or WSHA) and the Windows System Health Validator on the server (or WSHV). ......

My NAP overview session went very well yesterday. All the demos went off perfect, and I thought {most} of the audience got a lot out of it. If you attended the session and have feedback, I’d love to hear it. I have a repeat session this Friday , so I...

Today, we are announcing a fairly significant development in our relationship with the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) subgroup of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) standards body. Microsoft has been a supporter of the TCG since its inception and serves...

I am flying out to Las Vegas tomorrow for the Interop show. If you haven’t already heard, NAP and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) made a HUGE announcement today . We are showing some amazing things at the show this year. Check out just a few of them...

Hi everyone, I’m happy to announce that we’ve added a NAP Virtual Lab to the NAP Events and Webcasts . This is an IPsec enforcement lab using a Windows Server 2003 DC, Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 Network Policy Server (NPS), and two Vista clients...

The following blog post has been extracted from the "Network Access Protection Deployment Planning Guide", by Susie Bernard (March 2007). Introduction Whether your organization is small, medium, or large, deploying an enterprise software solution...

I get asked this in email all the time. I thought it was worth a quick post: NAP Servers: The NAP Server pieces, which are required to do NAP, are included in Windows Server 2008. If you own Server 2008, you own the NAP Server. You need at...

Partners Will Extend Network Access Protection to Linux and Mac Desktops, and Create a New Appliance Form Factor The Network Access Protection (NAP) ecosystem hits 150,000 deployed desktops milestone. BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 13, 2007 — Microsoft...

This is my first blog post of the year, and a video blog post no less, kicking off the YEAR OF NAP! Watch the video and give me a ton of feedback (please). Video: NAP Video Blog: 2008 - The year of NAP Talk to you again soon, Jeff Sigman Senior...

Hey all you Security / AD / Networking MVPs, you want an hour with me showing off NAP? Sure you do! I will be showing Longhorn Server Beta 3 / Vista / XP all working with NAP 802.1x wired enforcement; pretty cool stuff. I want to also open it up to...

Network Policy Server (NPS) in Longhorn Server, formerly known as IAS, is the heart of Network Access Protection (NAP). NPS is the Microsoft implementation of a Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS) server. Besides acting as policy evaluation...

Well folks, NAP IS REAL. How can I say this when we haven’t shipped Longhorn Server yet? :-> Well, we have 45 out of our 100 partners at RSA. 9 of these partners were in a special NAP Partner Pavilion showing their working products fully integrated...

Hi Everyone. I just got back from the Interop conference in New York where we participated in the InteropLabs and the Network Access Control Experts Panel . The show was a lot of fun. We were able to demonstrate NAP interoperability with several...

Hi All - The NAP Team has a surprise progress report for you today regarding NAP on XP, 802.1x and EAP that we know you will enjoy! Please check out the attached video clip and let us know your thoughts. Note: The clip is indeed silent, so there...

Note: This NAP blog post was originally published in January of 2007. For a current version of this post, click here . The WSHA and WSHV are the SHA/SHV delivered with Windows Vista and Longhorn Server. A version of the WSHA will also be available...

Welcome to the first entry in the Network Access Protection (NAP) blog. Wow, this is like writing my first "C" application (HelloWorld.exe). It is important to start out with the intended purpose of this blog: 1.) Connect Microsoft customers...

Hey. Sorry about the weird state of the NAP blog this week. This past weekend I moved it from MSDN to TechNet, as most people who are interested in NAP hangout on TechNet. What I didn't know is that I would lose 3 months of content. Bummer! I am manually...

Turns out the band Coldplay are big fans of the NAP Blog. Wow, we are flattered! Check out their "reaction shot" to the latest posts: Just kidding. :-> Jeff Sigman [MSFT] NAP Release Manager Jeff.Sigman@online.microsoft.com * http://blogs...

Ever wanted to tighten the security to the point that only some machines are allowed access on 802.1x/Wireless network? Well here’s the solution, combine MAC filtering, with EAP Authentication and you get, User AND machine authentication all in one. ...

Here is what we have planned for the next month. Be sure to post a comment or send me mail if there is a chat you would love to see! Using Microsoft's RADIUS server to secure your Network Setting up a secure Network for VPN or wireless access...

Are you ready for Longhorn Server + NAP in 2007? I hope so. I hereby declare this the “year of NAP”. :-> We are making a huge bang at the RSA show this year. You have to come and check out what we have put together. It is going to blow your socks...

SHA and QEC developers take note: the NAP API reference documentation has been updated on MSDN with information about API support on NAP for Windows XP with Service Pack 2. All client APIs are supported on this platform. The topic About NAP for Windows...

The Enterprise Networking Group (ENG) is hosting a web chat on Tuesday, January 18 th at 2:00 P.M. Pacific Time. This web chat will be focused on explaining the role of EAPHost, a networking component introduced in Windows Vista. EAPHost provides an Extensible...