Entries tagged with windows server - TechNet Edge

TechNet Radio: NAP Deployment from a Customer Perspective

erickingfrog — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Hear Microsoft customers talk about how they deployed Network Access Protection (NAP) within their organizations. In this TechNet Radio session, Kevin Remde and Jeff Sigman talk with Chris Boscolo of Napera Networks, Alex Chalmers of Ball State University, and Pattabhi Attaluri of Avenda Systems.

How to: Windows Troubleshooting

AdamBomb — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Have you noticed the "More Information: Event Log Online Help" links at the bottom of some event log entries? Ever wonder who wrote up all those? I had an opportunity to sit down with Dan Brown (no, not that Dan Brown) to talk about Windows Troubleshooting. He's part of a team that wrote 9000 online help entries, consisting of some 3 Million words. Many of those words are things like resolve and verify and troubleshoot - and they give you info you need to find out why that event log entry got made in the first place.

Fine Grained Password Policy Screencast

Joey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Have you ever wanted to setup different password policies for different users in the same domain? In this screencast, Corey Hynes takes us through the setup and configuration of the new fine grained password policy in Windows Server 2008. Corey utilizes a free tool from Special Operations Software called Specops Password Policy BASIC in this demo. For more information about their tool visit http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopspasswordpolicy/.

Network Access Protection with Microsoft's IT

AdamBomb — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:27:00 GMT

After months of cajoling, I was finally able to convince Jeff Sigman from the NAP team and Brent Atkison from MSIT to sit still for 30 minutes to talk about why we created NAP, and how we went about deploying it worldwide at Microsoft. Ah, who am I kidding. Jeff's been asking me for months to put his blue anime hair up on the web. Here you go Jeff. Persistance pays off.
Network Access Protection is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that allows you to enforce computer health requirements before allowing machines to communicate on the network. It's the answer to the question "do I trust that this machine is patched and won't infect other machines on my network?"
These guys have done some pretty impressive stuff. The NAP team worked with a list of partners as long as your arm to make sure NAP will play nicely with whatever switch hardware you've invested in. Brent shares some impressive sizing guidelines for implementing NAP: Microsoft turned reporting and deferred enforcement on 120,000 machines worldwide, using a very small number of servers. Very small. Less than 3. Total help desk calls as a result? Also a very small number. Oh, and he did that deployment using beta builds of Longhorn Server 2008.
(this video was originally posted to Channel9 back before Edge existed, but since it's really IT content, not dev, I wanted to put it up over where it belongs)