The NPS System
The Network Policy Server (NPS) provides the authentication, authorization, auditing, and accounting for the VPN clients. The NPS system is a Windows Server 2012 server with the Network Policy Server role service installed.
The NPS is used to enforce network access policies for client health, client authentication, and client authorization. NPS works with Network Access Protection (NAP), which is a technology to manage, enforce, and remediate client health. The NPS service provides the policies for NAP to validate against. NPS also has multiple templates for larger-scale deployments or configuring multiple NPS servers identically.
In NAP, system health agents (SHAs) are used to inspect and assess the health of clients according ...
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