Network Access Protection Agent — best settings needed

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Network Access Protocol Agent, in services: Presently set for Manual. Set it for Automatic [Delayed Start]. There is a password within the Properties. How do I find out what that password, I don’t know where it came from. I’ll be at work, with no Write access, only Read access for discussion boards, I will monitor this thread. I have a Home Network with one desktop, two laptops, one Samsung Galaxy Tab3 — everything but Tab3 is on both hardwire and wireless. Tab3 only wireless.

** After two very nice replies, I wanted to change my title, to reflect the true NAP title: Network Access Protection agency **

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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Do you mean Network Access Protection Agent?
The account and password are managed by Windows and you do not want to change them or the service will not work.

Why do you want it to run at start up?

cheers, Paul

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Do you mean Network Access PROTECTION Agent? Based on the description of that service, I would leave it alone.

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Yes, I was in a hurry, didn’t type accurately I want to leave it alone, however Action Center griped that it was turned off. I was wanting to make Action Center happy.

** After two very nice replies, I wanted to change my title, to reflect the true NAP title: Network Access Protection agency **

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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I want to leave it alone, however Action Center griped that it was turned off. I was wanting to make Action Center happy.

How is the “gripe” worded? Just “Off”?

Network Access Protection is only needed when required by a tightly-guarded enterprise network which checks your antivirus/firewall/updates before allowing connection to it.

NAP protects a network from you, not you from a network.

It would be Off for most Windows systems.

Bruce

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…It would be Off for most Windows systems…

Bruce,

Actually it is set to “manual” for most Win7 installations.

Normally the user should not need to alter the default setting.

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Actually it is set to “manual” for most Win7 installations.

Not in Action Center, which prompted this thread:

39085-Win7ActionCenterSecurity

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Mine is set to manual, so I’m sure that’s what it’s meant to be.

cheers, Paul

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Mine is set to manual, so I’m sure that’s what it’s meant to be.

cheers, Paul

Mine is also set to manual, and also has a password set but I have never messed with this service since I installed this Win7 64bit about June/July last year.

In fact I can’t remember having any reason to mess with this service on any of my own or any customers’ computers.

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As well as also showing as Off in my Win 7 Action Centre, it’s showing as Disabled in services.msc and Windows hasn’t complained about it.

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OK, so far, NAP set to Automatic [delayed], and the tiny flag in tray notification area no longer has a “see note” red-ball. Since Windows 7 Pro has no more complaint, I’m leaving well alone. What and where is “computer health” policies/settings?

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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OK, so far, NAP set to Automatic [delayed], and the tiny flag in tray notification area no longer has a “see note” red-ball.

What did the note say?

What and where is “computer health” policies/settings?

Why do you ask?

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If Action Center complains again about NAP being off, I’ll try to find out which 3rd party program may have adjusted something inside computer health policies. If/until then, I’m leaving well enough alone.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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3rd/last time: How exactly did Action Center complain about Network Access Protection being off?

Virtually everyone else’s is off and no one else seems to gets a complaint.

I don’t get why you’ve decided to switch it on via Automatic.

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3rd/last time: How exactly did Action Center complain about Network Access Protection being off? Virtually everyone else’s is off and no one else seems to gets a complaint. I don’t get why you’ve decided to switch it on via Automatic.

Ahhh, I forgot to post this: I cannot recall the exact message. I cannot duplicate the original message. What I remember: tray notification Action Center had a red ball w/X.
Opening Action Center — it merely indicated NAP was turned off.
Because a few here said their’s was Manual, a few said their’s was off, since I do not know what originally turned NAP on — I thought it best to leave it Automatic [Delayed] until I find out exactly what 3rd party software turned NAP on. Running Windows Repair (All in One) very likely left it Manual. Next time I will snapshot the message.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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Roland,

on all six of my Win7 systems the NAPA service is set to “Manual” startup.

I have never needed to interfere with this service on any of my own Win7 systems or my customers’ systems.

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What I remember: tray notification Action Center had a red ball w/X. Opening Action Center — it merely indicated NAP was turned off.

Those two are not related. NAP off does not cause a red X flag.

, since I do not know what originally turned NAP on — I thought it best to leave it Automatic [Delayed] until I find out exactly what 3rd party software turned NAP on.

I don’t think any software on your computer would turn it on:

Network access protection (NAP), introduced with Windows Server 2008, is Microsoft’s approach to controlling access to a network based on a determination of each device’s health.

Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) is a policy-based management feature of Windows Server 2008 that allows a network administrator to control access to network resources.

What is Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP)?

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When you click on What is Network Access Protection? in Action Centre, you get –

Network Access Protection (NAP) is a platform that network administrators can use to help protect the security of a network. When you connect to a corporate network that uses NAP, your computer is checked to make sure that it has the required software and settings, and that the software and settings are up to date. If anything is missing or outdated, your computer can be automatically updated. Your network access might be limited during that time, but usually this process happens quickly, after which full network access is restored.

So does any of this apply to your set up ?

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Nope, that’s why I went back in services, disabled NAP, restarted. Perhaps, now all will go smoothly. The red ball with an x I referred to earlier — whenever any problem is detected by Action Center, it will generate a little something that “tells” visually I need to click on AC.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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