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See NAP at TechEd 2009
11 May 09 05:53 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   
Hey NAP Fans! If you are attending TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles this week, be sure to stop by the NAP booth in the Microsoft Technical Learning Center (TLC). It is a great opportunity to meet and speak with NAP team members and learn about some of the enhancements Read More...
Example of using the new NPS templates feature in Windows Server 2008 R2
26 February 09 12:16 PM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   
In a previous NAP blog entry , we described the new NPS templates feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. In this blog entry, we show an example of using a template for a RADIUS shared secret. Templates for RADIUS shared secrets allow users to specify a shared Read More...
NPS templates in Windows Server 2008 R2
17 February 09 10:45 AM | MS NAP Team | 1 Comments   
NPS templates, the flagship feature of NPS in Windows Server 2008 R2, provides a huge reduction in cost of ownership and deployment for all NPS environments. NPS templates separate common RADIUS configuration elements such as RADIUS shared secrets and Read More...
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...
NPS/NAP Logging - BSU.EDU style!
08 July 08 07:41 AM | JeffSigman | 3 Comments   
Hey NAP fans, I’m Alex Chalmers from Ball State University with a guest post about NPS logging. If you made it to one of Jeff’s TechEd IT Pro presentations , you’ll remember me discussing our NAP implementation and some of the challenges that we’ve faced Read More...
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NAP 802.1X Configuration Walkthrough – Part 2
20 June 08 09:59 AM | JeffSigman | 5 Comments   
NAP 802.1X Configuration Walkthrough – Part 2 This is a continuation from Part 1 . Step 2 – Windows Server 2008 NPS, the heart of NAP I am going to take a slightly different approach than the 802.1X step-by-step guide . Feel free to follow either method, Read More...
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NAP 802.1X Configuration Walkthrough – Part 1
19 June 08 10:08 AM | JeffSigman | 7 Comments   
I just got back from TechEd 2008 North America (Orlando) where I presented two “breakout” sessions on NAP . It went off with a bang and most people really loved the sessions / demos. I have blogged a couple times in the past that I would document exactly Read More...
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NAP @ TechEd Podcast
11 June 08 01:14 PM | JeffSigman | 0 Comments   
NAP - with Jeff Sigman and Others Jeff Sigman – Microsoft Chris Boscolo - Napera Networks, Inc. Alex Chalmers - Ball State University Pattabhi Attaluri - Avenda Systems In this podcast from Tech·Ed NA 2008 IT Pro, Jeff Sigman talks about Network Access Read More...
The World on {NAP}
05 May 08 11:31 AM | JeffSigman | 1 Comments   
In case you haven’t noticed, { NAP } is being deployed across the globe! It is an exciting time with Windows Server 2008, Vista and XP SP3 NAP released and available to the world. Check out the great things 13 of our customers are saying below. The full Read More...
NAP FAQ: Enforcing Security Updates (out-of-the-box)
24 April 08 03:54 PM | MS NAP Team | 3 Comments   
Hey! My name is Mike Burk. I am a Program Manager on the Windows Security team. My team is responsible for the out-of-the-box NAP experience in Windows XP SP3, Vista and Server 2008. It is called the Windows Security Health Agent (client-side) and Validator Read More...
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Debugging NAP Errors (part 1)
19 February 08 10:15 PM | MS NAP Team | 2 Comments   
I’ve heard from a lot of folks who set up NAP in a lab who would love to have more information on all the great data that Network Policy Server (NPS) writes into the audit log. If you haven’t checked out our auditing, go to Server Manager and click on the main node for our role (Network Policy and Access Services). You will see all related NAP server events at the top of the right hand pane. This will be part 1 in a series of “Debugging NAP” posts. I decided to kick it off by examining the messages / errors which come from our Windows Security Center NAP integration piece (included in XP SP3, Vista and Server 2008). It is called the Windows System Health Agent on the client (or WSHA) and the Windows System Health Validator on the server (or WSHV). ... Read More...
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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...
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...
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The heart of NAP now has its own site...
29 June 07 01:58 PM | MS NAP Team | 0 Comments   
Network Policy Server (NPS) in Windows Server 2008 (formally known as Internet Authentication Server - IAS) has a new home on the web: http://www.microsoft.com/nps -or- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/nps/default.mspx Party on and NAP the WORLD! Read More...
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