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...