Windows Server 2008 has been released for more than 6 months. There has been huge momentum picking up for Windows 2008 despite the economic crisis now. I am not sure exactly why. I find it amazing. I guess it has to do with the fact that virtualization is a huge thing and Windows 2008 has it.
And since Windows 2008 has NAP too, it makes sense to take advantage of it.
In the past months, i’ve always been slapped with questions about how Microsoft IT does NAP. Yes, i’ve typed the same responses over and over again.
Just this morning, I saw the ultimate resource that will save me from having to do that again.
Network Access Protection (NAP) is a powerful new Windows Server 2008 feature that can help protect networks from malicious software (malware) and other threats. This webcast explains how organizations can use NAP to institute requirements for accessing a network, create policies that check for compliance with those requirements, and update and manage devices that are not in compliance. Join us to learn how Microsoft IT manages NAP within Microsoft and how organizations can leverage this feature to report on health policy compliance, and to take action to address identified risks.
Presenters: Brent Scallan, Senior Systems Engineer, Microsoft IT, Microsoft Corporation, and Pat Fetty, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server Team, Microsoft Corporation
Brent spent his first 8 years at Microsoft in Support and Consulting working with several Fortune 100 customers on enterprise deployments of Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, RRAS, PKI, and IPsec, among other technologies. Brent also worked with enterprise customers through pre-release deployments of Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Brent has spent the past 2 years in Microsoft IT as a Senior Systems Engineer, dogfooding Windows Server 2008 and now Windows 7 specifically to deploy Network Access Protection (NAP) inside Microsoft.
/Dennis
