Microsoft Azure Stack is an extension of Azure—bringing the agility and innovation of cloud computing to your on-premises environment and enabling the only hybrid cloud that allows you to build and deploy hybrid applications anywhere. We bring together the best of the edge and cloud to deliver Azure services anywhere in your environment. RADIUS 2016 Server - Wireless Authentication NPS This RADIUS server uses NPS to perform centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting for wireless, authenticating switches, remote access dial-up or virtual private network (VPN) connections.

When you use NPS as a RADIUS server, you configure network access servers, such as wireless access points or VPN servers, as RADIUS clients in NPS. You also configure network policies that NPS uses to authorize connection requests, and you can configure RADIUS accounting so that NPS logs accounting information to log files on the local hard disk or in a Microsoft SQL Server database.

I need to ensure high availability for RADIUS service in Windows Server environment so it can withstand loss or even temporary downtime of any particular server holding NPS role. Most of technet articles state that I should use NPS Proxy, but in my understanding it still leaves me with a bottleneck of single proxy server. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 NPS. Microsoft's Windows Server platform provides a RADIUS server, an economical option for those already running (or planning to run) a Windows Server.

NPS uses an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain or the local Security Accounts Manager (SAM) user accounts database to authenticate user credentials for connection attempts. Features:• Supports WPA2-Enterprise (preferred) or WPA-Enterprise, and either AES (preferred) or TKIP encryption cipher, depending on which versions are supported by your wireless client computer network adapters.

Important Client computers and devices, such as laptop computers, tablets, phones, and other computers running client operating systems, are not RADIUS clients. RADIUS clients are network access servers - such as wireless access points, 802.1X-capable switches, virtual private network (VPN) servers, and dial-up servers - because they use the RADIUS protocol to communicate with RADIUS servers, such as Network Policy Server (NPS) servers. This step is also necessary when your NPS is a member of a remote RADIUS server group that is configured on an NPS proxy. In this circumstance, in addition to performing the steps in this task on the NPS proxy, you must do the following: • On the NPS proxy, configure a remote RADIUS server group that contains the NPS. • On the remote NPS, configure the NPS proxy as a RADIUS client. To perform the procedures in this topic, you must have at least one network access server (VPN server, wireless access point, authenticating switch, or dial-up server) or NPS proxy physically installed on your network.

Configure the Network Access Server Use this procedure to configure network access servers for use with NPS. When you deploy network access servers (NASs) as RADIUS clients, you must configure the clients to communicate with the NPSs where the NASs are configured as clients. This procedure provides general guidelines about the settings you should use to configure your NASs; for specific instructions on how to configure the device you are deploying on your network, see your NAS product documentation. Verizon software repair assistant.