Introducing Windows Server® 2008

Chapter 10. Network Access Protection

In this chapter:
The Need for Network Access Protection
Understanding Network Access Protection
Understanding the NAP Architecture
A Walkthrough of How NAP Works
Implementing NAP
Troubleshooting NAP
Conclusion
Additional Resources

Before we dig into this feature, let me tell you a brief background story concerning this book. Why write a book about a beta version of a product? Won’t a book like this become obsolete once the final release version of the product appears? Probably, yes. After all, at the time of writing this particular chapter, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 has not quite reached Beta 3, so features are bound to change between now and RTM.

Doesn’t that mean that this is basically a "throwaway" book? ...