The title “Richard Got NAPd” was born back 2005 when I first joined Microsoft and participated in Microsoft’s 1st deployment rollout of System Center Configuration Managers 2007 Network Access Protection (NAP) which was a 3 year project. As a member of MSIT during this deployment, it gave me allot of insight into network intrusion protection and security compliance. So the title implies I that was intrigued by the integrated technology of Network Access Protection and systems management and compliance monitoring which consumed the first 3 years of my time at Microsoft.
Some how I stumbled on a web page I never seen been for, which is cool. The official home page for System Center Configuration Manager. As you'll notice on the front page that it does not say 2007. most likely because the site is not dedicated to that specific version. It looks to me that its focused on system management in general. I believe as the growing demand increases around desktop management, there will always be a need for a product to manage desktops remotely and in a unified way. Check out the original Home Page for System Center Configuration Manager.
About Richard Dixon
I’ve worked in the field of Systems Management since 1990, performing integration and automation through the use of Microsoft technologies such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Operations Manager, Service Manager, SQL Server 2008 & Reporting Services, Visual Studio, and SharePoint with InfoPath Integration. I am proficient on SCCM, Microsoft's Hyper V Virtualization technology, and Failover Clustering & Network Load Balancer Services. I have also worked extensively with SCCM Network Access Protection and enjoy learning new technologies. I am also a Microsoft Partner. I started work at Microsoft in 2005 in the SMS/SCCM team of MSIT, which later became the Management Platforms & Services Delivery group in the Management Services division. In MPSD I managed our Lab, Preproduction & Production environments using Microsoft's Hyper V technology. These environments support several SCCM infrastructures which include the management of 200,000 managed desktops across Microsoft. Prior to working at Microsoft I worked for Warner Bros/AOL Time Warner, NBC Studios, AT&T WorldNet Service, 24 Hour Fitness, State of California Health Department, Northrop Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortgage Bank, Dudeworks, TeleTech, and TekSystems.
Specialties:System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Service Manager, Virtual Machine Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 R2, Hyper V, SQL Server, Scripting, Visual Studio, SharePoint Services and InfoPath Integrations and Systems Center Essentials.