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“After working at Microsoft for 5 years, I became the go-to-guy on various technologies and felt my focus shifting from SCCM. In my new role at SCCM Expert, I get to solely focus on SCCM 2007,” said Richard Dixon, Sr. Solutions Architect, SCCM Expert.

Microsoft NAP follows through on Linux and Mac agents

Back in July 2007, Amith Krishnan, senior product manager for NAP at Microsoft, appeared on my podcast (StillSecure After All These Years podcast) to talk about Microsoft's announced support for the Trusted Computing Group's TNC standard, Trusted Network Connect.

As part of that announcement, Microsoft claimed they would open up the NAP agent to other platforms. But rather than develop Linux and Mac NAP clients, Microsoft would make the technology available for third parties who could create NAP agents for non-Microsoft operating systems. True to Amith's word, UNETsystem announced NAP compatible versions of their AnyClick product for Linux and Macintosh OS X operating systems. Microsoft NAP and network access control (NAC) are technologies I'm very familiar with, having created a product in this space with my former company, StillSecure.

Read the full story: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21928

Published Jul 31 2011, 05:24 PM by rdixon

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Certified on every release of SMS/SCCM product and now major focus is on NAP Implementations.

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