The Last Piece of the Network Health Puzzle

With the news today that Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been released to manufacturing, the last piece of the network health puzzle falls into place for Windows users.

Why is XP SP3 so important? Because it includes the Microsoft Network Access Protection health agent first available in Windows Vista. In turn, the NAP agent enables Windows XP systems to report health over the network. Napera products leverage Microsoft’s NAP architecture for health information, and we can provide health diagnosis of Windows Vista, Mac OS X and now Windows XP systems on customer networks.

A number of our customers continue to use Windows XP, and we’ve been eagerly awaiting this release to provide them with full health functionality across their entire network without requiring them to install a third party agent. End users should see XP SP3 appear on Microsoft update next week, and it will become an automatic download starting in June.