July 2007 - Posts

Network Access Protection (NAP) Deployment Planning
28 July 07 01:38 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

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 like Read More...

Filed under: 802.1X, Deployments, DHCP, Downlevel OS Support, NPS, VPN, FAQ, IPsec

NAP FAQ: Are you planning on releasing NAP Clients for Mac, Linux, BeOS, etc?
23 July 07 01:11 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

I also get asked this ALL THE TIME. :-> As of this moment, * Microsoft * has released a NAP Client in Windows Vista and will be releasing a Windows XP NAP Client in forthcoming XP Service Pack 3. No other NAP Clients are planned by Microsoft at this Read More...

Filed under: Downlevel OS Support, Linux, FAQ

NAP FAQ: How much does NAP cost?
23 July 07 01:05 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

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 least ONE Server Read More...

Filed under: Downlevel OS Support, FAQ

Offline NAP Web Cast: Real world customer deployment of NAP
23 July 07 11:24 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

An insightful webcast from last week is now available for offline viewing/listening . John Morello - Senior Program Manager from Microsoft and Hunter Ely - Louisiana State University Senior Security Analyst - discuss how LSU tackled NAP in their live Read More...

Filed under: Deployments, Webcasts

NAP featured on RunAs Radio (from TechEd Orlando)
11 July 07 11:28 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes, the hosts of RunAs Radio , caught me on the show floor at TechEd Orlando. They were hot on the topic of NAP and spent 30 minutes with me discussing it. It is a great interview , take a listen and feel free to comment Read More...

Filed under: 802.1X, Deployments, DHCP, Downlevel OS Support, Linux, VPN, Podcast, IPsec

NAP FAQ updated with XP SP3 information
10 July 07 03:11 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

I have been getting a lot of questions about NAP on XP these days. We have updated the NAP FAQ regarding the release of the NAP Client for Windows XP. Check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/nap/napfaq.mspx NAP the WORLD in 2007, Jeff Sigman Read More...

Filed under: Downlevel OS Support, FAQ

NAP 802.1x Enforcement – Switches we’ve tested w/NAP
10 July 07 01:38 PM | MS NAP Team | 3 Comments   

Hi everyone! As you may have heard, we have shown a rack filled up with switches to demonstrate NAP 802.1x enforcement interoperability at RSA and Interop 2007. Apparently, there are lots of NAPPERS out there who want to know exact models of switches Read More...

Filed under: 802.1X, FAQ

NPS pattern matching heaven in Windows Server 2008
03 July 07 02:35 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

Greetings! Sam Salhi here from the Network Policy Server (NPS) team. One of NPS’s most powerful features is Pattern Matching. What makes it so powerful is the use of regular expressions when dealing with it. Here’s a little example. Suppose that you want Read More...

Filed under: NPS