Introducing Windows Server® 2008

Implementing NAP

Let’s move on now and talk about how to implement NAP in an enterprise environment. Obviously, this is a big topic and we can’t do it justice in a brief book like this—plus Windows Server 2008 is only at Beta 3 at the time of writing this book, so some aspects of implementing NAP might still change. Still, the NAP platform is pretty far evolved at this point, and we can at least cover some of the important points for deploying it. So let’s look at three aspects in particular:

• Choosing the NAP enforcement methods you want to use

• Deploying your NAP solution using a phased implementation method

• Configuring the NPS and other aspects of the NAP platform

Note that you’ll also find references to other available documentation on deploying ...