Additional Resources

The best place to start looking for resources about NAP is the Network Access Protection page on TechNet, which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/nap/ . There you’ll find overviews, webcasts, Live Meeting presentations, links to Step by Step guides (which go into more detail of how to set up NAP than we could go into in this brief chapter), and more.

The Microsoft Download Center also has great resources on NAP; just go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and search for NAP and you’ll find many.

There’s also a TechNet Forum where you can ask questions and help others trying out NAP; see http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=576&SiteID=17 for this forum (Windows Live registration required).

For ISVs and IHVs who want to NAP-enable their product, the NAP APIs can be found on MSDN at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369712.aspx.

And don’t forget to check out the NAP blog at http://blogs.technet.com/nap/default.aspx as this is a terrific and timely resource for all things NAP.

Finally, be sure to turn to Chapter 14, “Additional Resources,” for more sources of information concerning NAP, and also for links to webcasts, whitepapers, blogs, newsgroups, and other sources of information about all aspects of Windows Server 2008.

Well I’ve been working hard on this chapter, and now it’s done. So I better rest a bit and take a nap before I start writing my next chapter. Uh-oh, another bad pun. Better stick to my day job (IT pro) and avoid the nighttime comedy circuit.