September 2008 - Posts

System Health Agents (SHAs) and System Health Validators (SHVs) that are available from NAP partners
30 September 08 01:21 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

In my previous blog post, System Health Agents (SHAs) that are available from Microsoft , I described the SHAs (and their corresponding system health validators [SHVs]) that you can use with Windows Security Center in Windows Vista and Windows XP with Read More...

Filed under: Partners, SHAs and SHVs

Selecting PEAP-TLS and other PEAP methods in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
29 September 08 04:52 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 support the Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) and the Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2 (MS-CHAP v2) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication methods for PEAP. Read More...

Filed under: 802.1X, FAQ, configuration

My review of Information Week’s “Rolling Review: Microsoft NAP”
26 September 08 11:56 AM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

Greetings, keepers of the NAP flame! On August 2, Information Week published an article titled “ Rolling Review: Microsoft NAP .” I would like to comment on it on behalf of the NAP product team and add technical clarity where I can. 1. Opening paragraph: Read More...

Filed under: FAQ, industry

Spotlight on NAP Partners: Napera Networks
23 September 08 01:50 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

This is the first in a series of NAP blog entries to shine a light on the efforts of our NAP partners to develop and deliver integrated products and solutions for the NAP platform. In this entry, Margaret Dawson, Vice President of Marketing for Napera Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Guest

Microsoft leads the pack in Forrester WAVE report on network access control technologies
23 September 08 08:11 AM | MS NAP Team | 5 Comments   

Hey NAP fans! The Network Access Protection (NAP) product team is proud to announce the publication of a new Forrester WAVE report on Network Access Control for the third quarter of 2008, which places Microsoft’s NAP as the leader of the top four network Read More...

Filed under: industry

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Packs for NAP
19 September 08 09:21 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

Hello NAP fans! If you are using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 , you can download and install the following management packs to help monitor your NAP infrastructure: · Network Policy Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 · Windows Read More...

Filed under: operations

General NAP policy design considerations
16 September 08 02:24 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

Greetings, citizens of NAPville! Here is some information to take into account when designing your policies for NAP, adapted from a section in the upcoming Network Access Protection Design Guide and written by our own Greg Lindsay: Consider the following Read More...

Filed under: configuration, design

Network policy design when using multiple system health validators
12 September 08 10:57 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

Here is a section from the upcoming Network Access Protection Design Guide on how to design network policies when you use multiple system health validators (SHVs) , written by our own Greg Lindsay: If you have deployed multiple SHVs, you can configure Read More...

Filed under: configuration

New case study for Blue Ridge Networks published
08 September 08 01:35 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

Salutations, fellow NAP fans! Check out this new case study for Blue Ridge Networks that was published today. This case study describes how Blue Ridge Neworks, a NAP partner, used Solution Accelerators to integrate NAP, Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Read More...

Filed under: Case Study, Forefront, Partners

What is the NAP client doing?
05 September 08 04:13 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

Greetings, Guardians of NAPness! Here is an interesting question about NAP client behavior that was posed by a fellow NAP fan: How does a NAP client communicate a change in health state and get reevaluated and what sort of ongoing traffic is there between Read More...

Filed under: FAQ

System Health Agents (SHAs) that are available from Microsoft
03 September 08 03:16 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

Greetings, fellow disciples of NAP! Here is a summary of the different system health agents (SHAs) that are currently available from Microsoft. Note: The following text was shamelessly “leveraged” from our own Greg Lindsay’s upcoming Network Access Protection Read More...

Filed under: SCCM, Forefront, SHAs and SHVs