WindowsITPro article ( August 2006) - Calvin Choe NAP Lead Program Manager

Come and join the Networking Vice President (Jawad Khaki) today to talk about Longhorn Server Networking. I will be helping with the chat as well. Bring your tough NAP questions to us: 11:00 AM Redmond / Pacific Time Jeff Sigman [MSFT] NAP Release...

In April/May this year, our team from Education Queensland, a government department in Australia, headed to Redmond to take part in some preliminary testing and development work on the NAP project. This was a part of a Technology Adoption Program we signed...

Turns out the band Coldplay are big fans of the NAP Blog. Wow, we are flattered! Check out their "reaction shot" to the latest posts: (scroll down for image) Just kidding. :-> Jeff Sigman [MSFT] NAP Release Manager Jeff.Sigman@online...

Check this out! NAP is one of the “20 Reasons Why Windows Vista Will Be Your Next OS” according to ComputerWorld . In fact, we are in the very first bucket of 20 “Security” reasons. This is what Scot Finnie says: “Improved network access protection...

Our Vice President, Jawad Khaki, will be holding a public chat through TechNet next Friday (July 14th, 11:00 AM Redmond / Pacific Time). The NAP Team will be present, as we expect a healthy amount of questions related to NAP. We are the #2 reason to buy...

I’m here to tell you our icon has no connection with “ The Lord of the Rings ”. :-> We have received Vista Beta 2 feedback that the icon is confusing and isn’t consistent with the rest of the Windows Security Center, etc. We are throwing around...

I changed the look from “Gertrude” to “Poison Ivy – Water”. After seeing Ian Moulster’s blog , it seemed like a much cleaner presentation. Enjoy (hopefully). Jeff Sigman [MSFT] NAP Release Manager Jeff.Sigman@online.microsoft.com * http...

Well, we haven’t just been sitting around recovering from the Beta 2 push, that’s for sure. We jumped right in to Vista RC1 work. You only get a couple of hour’s breath, once a major milestone releases, to collect yourself before starting in on the next...

Wanted to post our two June WebCasts, in case you missed them: Gene's Network Access Protection for Windows Server Codename Longhorn and Windows Vista (Level 200) https://www118.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032297525&role=attend&pw...

Check out Gene's presentation today at 1:00 - 2:30 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada). He's a cool guy who loves NAP (which is part of why he is cool). His demos always rock. Make sure to post any questions you have from the presentation and we will do...

Network Access Protection has quite a few moving parts and setting it up the first time can be a little daunting. To help everyone give it a try and make that first attempt as smooth as possible there are three step-by-step guides that can help. These...

We’ve made the following changes to the NAP API documentation : · The topic InitializeNapAgentNotifier was added. · The topic UninitializeNapAgentNotifier was added. · The topic NapNotifyType was added. · The methods of the INapClientManagement...

We visit many customers and partners around the world. One thing we hear consistently is “NAP client enforcement MUST BE SUPPORTED on XP”. Which OS’es would block / hinder your NAP deployments if they weren’t supported? Any nice-to-have’s (non-blocking...

Achint Setia, a developer on the DHCP team here at Microsoft, has a great presentation available discussing NAP + DHCP for Vista and Longhorn Sever. This is one of several enforcement options available for protecting your networking with NAP. My favorite...

The Network Access Protection Client for Windows XP is the same “platform” as the one shipping in Windows VISTA. However, some of the ways it differentiates itself from XP are: It is built-in to the product (out-of-the-box) An administration...

The NAP API documentation has been updated on MSDN. Here’s a list of changes for the beta 2 docs: There are two new topics describing the NAP constants, entitled INapEnforcementClientConnection Constants and NAP Type Constants . The description...

The white paper Webcast for "Introduction to Network Access Protection" white paper is now available for viewing at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921070 . This Webcast summarizes the content in the "Introduction to Network Access Protection" white...

Monday, June 19th 2006 3:00-4:00 PM (Redmond/PST) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/default.mspx Internet Authentication Service (IAS) is the Microsoft implementation of a Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS) server...

A couple weeks ago I wrote and told you about how 802.1x based Network Access Protection (NAP) works. This week I wanted to follow-up and tell you about Secure Wireless based on the same technologies that make NAP work. What does secure wireless...

I am pleased to announce the general availability of VISTA Beta 2 to the world. You asked for it, here you go: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx Of course, from a NAP perspective, you now have only half the puzzle. You...

Things are hectic around here as we all rush to get RC1 ready for you, but from time to time its nice to take a short break and look at what people are saying about Network Access Protection, a quick perusal of the most recent (06/02/06 - Vista Beta 2...

Info: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298061&Culture=en-US Register (Event code: 1032298061): http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032298061&CountryCode=US Jeff Sigman...

Announcement: http://blogs.technet.com/ianhamer/archive/2006/06/02/432066.aspx New URL: http://www.microsoft.com/networking Ian Hameroff Senior Product Manager - Security and Access Microsoft Corporation

Start Time: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) End Time: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) In this webcast, we examine the infrastructure elements and processes that are affected when you...