Using NAP to Protect Your Network

A Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 server installed with the NPS role implements system health checks against Windows systems on the network. Those systems failing these health checks are subject to various actions, including

• Reporting

• Network access denial

• Quarantined with limited network access

The Network Access Protection (NAP) functionality included in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager extends the NAP functionality built in to Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, implementing a system health check based on the required software updates configured in ConfigMgr. NAP in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is almost completely unchanged from NAP in ConfigMgr 2007 but is slightly streamlined: There ...

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