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Differences between IAS and NPS

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Hello i am an intern at my local city hall in the IT divsion,

I currently set up a NPS radius Server with a Ruckus Controller as my Client.

I have to prove to my boss why i preferred using NPS instead of IAS.

I did my research as any normal person would do and i concluded that mainly :

NPS can offer new ways to control policies on the network acces, it's more flexible.

The enrollment of the active directoy is integrated, so authentication through it is possible.

but i couldn't understand the rest, i know that it's suppose to offer "VPN Services, Dial-up Services, 802.11 protected Acces, Routing & Remote Access(RRAS)"

but some of these terms i'm not sure i clearly understand it.

I am a french student so forgive me for any bad english.

Thank you all in advance
- Edited by Stef Galli Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:52 PM
Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:31 PM

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Hi Stef,

Internet Authentication Service (IAS) was renamed Network Policy Server (NPS) starting with Windows Server 2008.

And, in short, NPS is more advanced than IAS.

More information:

Internet Authentication Service and Network Policy Server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb892033(v=vs.85).aspx

Network Policy and Access Services

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545879.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support
- Marked as answer by Jeremy_Wu Monday, April 29, 2013 8:43 AM
Friday, April 26, 2013 7:56 AM

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Hi Stef,

Internet Authentication Service (IAS) was renamed Network Policy Server (NPS) starting with Windows Server 2008.

And, in short, NPS is more advanced than IAS.

More information:

Internet Authentication Service and Network Policy Server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb892033(v=vs.85).aspx

Network Policy and Access Services

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545879.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support
- Marked as answer by Jeremy_Wu Monday, April 29, 2013 8:43 AM
Friday, April 26, 2013 7:56 AM
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Oh wow! i didn't find this links! they seem already much helpfull than the ones i found,

Thank you for answering, Good day Jeremy

Friday, April 26, 2013 8:00 AM
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It is my pleasure.

Cheers!

Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

Monday, April 29, 2013 8:43 AM