January 2009 - Posts

TechNet online chat for NAP and NPS is today (Jan 29) at 1:00 PM PST!
29 January 09 08:19 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

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. Use this Read More...

Filed under: community

What other networking experts have written about NAP
28 January 09 01:10 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: Resources, industry

HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) launches with Microsoft as a key member
27 January 09 08:29 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

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. Read More...

Filed under: Partners, industry

TechNet online chat for NAP and NPS is rescheduled for Thursday, Jan 29 at 1:00 PM PST
23 January 09 02:36 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

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 the NAP Read More...

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Today's (Jan 22) TechNet online chat for NAP and NPS to be rescheduled
22 January 09 01:22 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

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 blog Read More...

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TechNet online chat for NAP and NPS is today (Jan 22) at 1:00 PM PST!
21 January 09 02:22 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

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. Use this Read More...

Filed under: community

NPS enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2
19 January 09 09:06 AM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

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 the Read More...

Filed under: Windows Server 2008 R2

Tool for migrating IAS configuration settings to NPS is now available!
15 January 09 10:57 AM | MS NAP Team | 5 Comments   

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 Read More...

Filed under: Downlevel OS Support, Deployments, NPS

Schedule of TechNet chats for NAP and NPS
13 January 09 12:37 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

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 Read More...

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Avenda Announces $1 eAgent Introductory Pricing – From now until after the RSA Conference 2009
09 January 09 09:41 AM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   

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 savings. Read More...

Filed under: Linux, Partners

Five Ways to Draw More Value from Microsoft NAP Deployments
06 January 09 04:07 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   

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 led us to Read More...

Filed under: Partners, SHAs and SHVs

What is NAP traffic?
05 January 09 04:59 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   

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 NAP enforcement Read More...

Filed under: Troubleshooting, design