September 2006 - Posts

Trip Report: InteropLabs and Network Access Control Experts Panel
29 September 06 04:04 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

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 vendors Read More...

Webcast: Enabling Trusted Communications and Health Policy Enforcement with NAP
20 September 06 11:24 AM | MS NAP Team | 4 Comments   

This webcast was presented yesterday (9/19) on TechNet and is now available for offline viewing . Enjoy! Jeff Sigman [MSFT] NAP Release Manager Jeff.Sigman@online.microsoft.com * http://blogs.technet.com/nap * Remove the "online" to actually email me. Read More...

In case you missed our NAP Chat last week...
20 September 06 08:13 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

Here is the transcript . Enjoy! Jeff Sigman [MSFT] NAP Release Manager Jeff.Sigman@online.microsoft.com * http://blogs.technet.com/nap * Remove the "online" to actually email me. ** This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights Read More...

IAS / NPS Secrets - Part 1
19 September 06 04:55 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

There are a number of registry settings in IAS that could be used to enhance a bunch of functionality. Many are hidden away and many people are unaware of them. I’ll go into some of these scenarios in a series of articles I call, IAS Secrets. You have Read More...

Use certificate auto enrollment to simplify your deployment
14 September 06 04:51 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

One of the most common challenges I hear about when deploying secure 802.1x (for both wireless and wired scenarios) and remote access is deploying certificates to your IAS servers. With Windows 2003 environments that have Active Directory deployed you Read More...

Reminder: NAP TechNet Chat today!
14 September 06 08:31 AM | MS NAP Team | 6 Comments   

This is a friendly reminder that we are hosting a NAP chat today (9/14/2006) at 2:30 P.M. Pacific time. Several of us from the engineering team will be participating as will our General Manager, Mark Ashida. It should be a great chat and a lot of fun. Read More...

Client unable to gain access while using MD5-Chap (w/server sending back “access accept”)
12 September 06 05:00 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

The reason for this problem is a mismatched shared secret . The way CHAP works is that the password is MD5 hashed and sent to the server in a RADIUS request. The server receives the RADIUS request, with the password hash, and then retrieves the password Read More...

Enhance your 802.1x deployment security with MAC filtering
08 September 06 08:00 AM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

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’s Read More...

RC1 NAP is out the door; the road is clear
07 September 06 08:05 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

It’s me again, it’s been a few weeks since I posted; last Friday we officially signed off on 5600 as the RC1 build for VISTA/Longhorn Server and sent it out to our Beta and TAP customers. We are already seeing positive feedback (check out this InfoWorld Read More...

Cisco and Microsoft Unveil Joint Architecture for NAC-NAP Interoperability
06 September 06 08:41 AM | MS NAP Team | 4 Comments   

Hot off the presses: Today, at the Security Standard conference , Microsoft and Cisco unveiled their joint architecture for NAP and NAC interoperability. Both companies are also demonstrating working code at the conference that has NAP and NAC cooperating Read More...