14.3. Preparing for NAP and Configuration Manager 2007 Integration

Now that you understand what NAP can do for you and what the deployment requirements are, we'll walk you through some of the steps you will need to take to integrate NAP into your current Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructure, and we'll cover how each enforcement method can affect the behavior of the Configuration Manager clients that will be requesting patches from your Configuration Manager servers.

We will also discuss the three recommended phases of a NAP deployment in a Configuration Manager environment and the value of each phase. The ability to quarantine a machine that does not meet the requirements of your network is a very powerful tool to have at your disposal, ...

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