What OS’es should NAP support?

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

MS NAP Team — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:21:27 GMT

We agree with you Joe. WS03 NAP Client support is planned to be released in parallel with Longhorn Server's release.

I plan on running a public beta of the XP / WS03 so folks can try it out. You must have access to Beta Longhorn Server builds though, in order to test NAP end-to-end.

I will keep the blog updated with the latest news!

- Jeff

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

Joe (PFE) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:13:09 GMT

As far as OS support goes, looking at it from a security perspective, Server 2003 should be supported at the head of the class; particularly, before any third party operating systems. There are multiple security scenarios where rogue 2003 servers could be introduced into a customer network that intentionally or unintentionally compromise network security and health (vendors running Server 2003 on laptops). The ability to certify known instances of Server 2003 as compliant and quarantining rogue installations is a MUST moving forward.

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

YamaKen — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:34:14 GMT

XP/2003 and major Unix distros.(including Solaris10, Linux and Mac OS).

I do not think there is a huge implementation demand for other OSes than Windows platforms for client sides, but think about the server side. There are plenty of those platforms up there at any data center. So I vote for these platforms...

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

Dalyanda — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:32:21 GMT

XP is enough in windows side through out microsoft's support lifecycle. Big linux distributons such as Fedora and Suse would be great also with Nap client and customizable scripting to check health status

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

MS NAP Team — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:28:32 GMT

Hey Morgan. We have no plans at this time for implementing the Server-side pieces of NAP on anything but Longhorn Server.

We are looking at allowing WS03 Servers to act as NAP Client's, by back-porting NAP Client pieces to this platform. This would also include x64 support for WS03.SP1.

Is there a specific reason you ask?

- Jeff

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

Morgan Pelletier — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:25:29 GMT

For the client side mostly Windows XP (~200+) and some Windows 2000. For the server side Windows Server 2003.

Is there any information on implementing the server side on an alternate platform other than Longhorn? ie Server 2003.

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

John Morello — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:24:36 GMT

For the Higher Education environment, we really need to have support for at least Mac OS X and common Linux variants (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Suse). While it would be ideal if Microsoft provided these clients free of charge, at a minimum we need to have them available from a partner at a reasonable costs (<$5 per seat). Without support for non-Windows operating systems, we'll never be able to force NAP client health validation in any widespread way.

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

Edward Ray — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:23:52 GMT

At a minimum Windows XP and 2003. Businesses are not going to move wholesale to Vista/Longhorn right away. Additionally, support for Mac and Linux would be helpful.

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

MS NAP Team — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:21:13 GMT

23 votes

XP (16)
2000 (10)
2003 (9)
Linux (8)
Mac (7)
98 (1)
Unix (1)

PS - I hope to announce NAP for XP (Beta 2) on the tech beta download *real soon*. I will keep you posted.

- Jeff Sigman

re: What OS’es should NAP support?

so_122 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:18:09 GMT

Win2K and Win 2003 Server should be supported.

In the large enterprize environment, Win2K is still main stream.