Hi The RTM release of SDK samples for Windows 7 is now available for download. The samples can be downloaded in ISO format or Web Setup format . This release contains some updates to the NAP SDK samples over the Win7 SDK samples RC release. Thanks...

The Cable Guy article in the June 2009 issue of TechNet Magazine online, titled “ NAP on the Internet ,” is now available. Network Access Protection (NAP) on the Internet is an extension of the Internet Protocol security (IPsec) enforcement method to...

Hi Windows 7 SDK RC has been released to the public. The web setup format can be accessed at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F75F2CA8-C1E4-4801-9281-2F5F28F12DBD&displaylang=en and the ISO format can be accessed at...

Hey NAP Fans! If you are attending TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles this week, be sure to stop by the NAP booth in the Microsoft Technical Learning Center (TLC). It is a great opportunity to meet and speak with NAP team members and learn about some of the...

There is a new blog being published by the Windows Server User Assistance Networking (WSUAN) writing team: http://blogs.technet.com/wsnetdoc/default.aspx The IT Pro and Developer writers on the WSUAN writing team are using this blog to describe...

In Windows Server 2008, a system health validator (SHV) installed on the NPS server can be configured in a single way. This works well if your system health requirements are the same for all of your NAP enforcement methods and all of your computers. However...

Heads up NAP and NPS fans! This Thursday continues our 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...

In a previous NAP blog entry , we described the new NPS templates feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. In this blog entry, we show an example of using a template for a RADIUS shared secret. Templates for RADIUS shared secrets allow users to specify a...

NPS templates, the flagship feature of NPS in Windows Server 2008 R2, provides a huge reduction in cost of ownership and deployment for all NPS environments. NPS templates separate common RADIUS configuration elements such as RADIUS shared secrets and...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are now available as public betas. In Windows 7, the NAP client user interface (UI) has been integrated into the Windows Action Center (previously known as the Windows Security Center). For example, Network Access...

Greg Lindsay (writer) and Allyson Adley (editor) won the Online Best of Show award for the NAP Design Guide at the Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) awards ceremony on January 29th. Congratulations Greg and Allyson...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Although NAP can be used to enforce restricted access for noncompliant NAP clients and non-NAP-capable clients, NAP can also be used to provide you with information about the overall level of health compliance on your network and correct system health...

Hey citizens of New NAP City! The Network Access Protection Troubleshooting Guide , authored by our very own technical writer and NAP Forum hero Greg Lindsay, is now live! This completes the product documentation set for NAP in Windows Server 2008...