NAP - with Jeff Sigman and Others Jeff Sigman – Microsoft Chris Boscolo - Napera Networks, Inc. Alex Chalmers - Ball State University Pattabhi Attaluri - Avenda Systems In this podcast from Tech·Ed NA 2008 IT Pro, Jeff Sigman talks about Network...

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...

I wanted to post a quick note before I head to bed (got to get over the Orange County Convention Center in the wee morning). I just arrived in Orlando this evening for the huge IT Pro TechEd event which starts tomorrow. Something on the order of 7,500...

No, not a picture of my head, as cool as that would be! :-> We finally have our own website (in addition to the TechNet content of course). It has a cool spinning graphic of some of our early NAP adopters from around the globe . Check it out and...

Well hello. I’m Gavin Carius, an Architect in Microsoft Australia. Jeff has been “inviting” me for some time to write about this cool thing in NAP we call “HRA Discovery” – so here goes my first NAP blog post! A great feature with NAP IPSec enforcement...

In case you have been asleep on the keyboard, Microsoft is releasing a NAP integration kit for Forefront Client Security 1.0 (FCS) . I worked tirelessly (just in case my boss reads this) to make sure it will be a huge success! Frank Simorjay of...

Hello NAP Bloggers! My name is Mark Foust, a Windows Server Networking Technical Specialist working down in Tampa Florida (USA). I wanted to share a bit of my perspective on the world of { NAP } . 7 things you may not have considered about NAP ...

I’d like to welcome a new guest blogger to the NAP Blog – Chris Edson. Chris is a senior engineer on NAP, and a huge resource to the team. If you have met him, you know what I am talking about. He just returned from his trip down to Las Vegas/Interop...

The Cable Guy, Mr. Joseph Davies , wrote a great article in the April issue of TechNet magazine - Troubleshooting NAP Enforcement . I just recently created a new tag on this blog to highlight the troubleshooting posts we’ve had so far. I hope to post...

The fine folks over at the Solution Accelerators team are making GREAT progress on the Forefront Client Security 1.0 NAP integration (FCS NAP). Check out their latest here . This product extension to FCS/NAP should be shipping publicly very soon! Very...

A great NAP Partner of ours, ProCurve Networking , recently announced even greater support of NAP in their suite of products. I am posting the meat of the announcement below. I hope to get a personal demo of this soon and get some video of it up on the...

In case you haven’t noticed, { NAP } is being deployed across the globe! It is an exciting time with Windows Server 2008, Vista and XP SP3 NAP released and available to the world. Check out the great things 13 of our customers are saying below. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you can believe it, I have been working on “Longhorn” for five years - pouring my blood, sweat and tears {of joy} into this product. We are LAUNCHING Windows Server 2008 this week! Go ahead, be a {hero}....

I recorded a video earlier today because of how excited I was to show off the latest development in the world of NAP. The NAP team has worked directly with the Solutions Accelerators team as well as the Forefront team to bring you integration between NAP and Forefront Client Security (FCS) 1.0. Once released, it will be a free download through the Solutions Accelerators TechNet site....

Here is a really cool video which is going to play at the launch of Windows Server 2008 next week in Los Angeles. It features Hunter Ely of Louisiana State University (LSU), a NAP Hero for Windows Server 2008. LSU was one of our NAP early adopters during the Beta of Server 2008....