NPS is the Microsoft execution of a Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS) server and intermediary. It is the successor of Internet Authentication Service (IAS).
As a RADIUS server, NPS performs verification, approval, and representing remote, verifying switch, and remote access dial-up and VPN associations.
NPS is additionally a well being evaluator server for Network Access Protection (NAP). NPS performs validation and approval of system association endeavors and, in light of designed framework well being arrangements, assesses PC w ell being consistence and decides how to confine a rebellious PC's system access or correspondence. This is another component explicit to NPS just; IAS does not bolster it. See Internet Authentication Service and Network Policy Server for a total rundown of highlights new to NPS.
NPS incorporates two API sets—...