Windows 2019, NPS and broken firewall rules (good job Microsoft...)
I have a love and hate relationship with Microsoft products. In one hand they integrate well to each other, they cover most of real life use cases and some products are even the best you can find from the field. On the other hand, the quality of documentation can vary a "bit" too much, logging varies from great to awful and there are really weird design decisions here and there. One of these issues hit me hard a while ago when I was configuring a new environment for a customer. Win 2019 servers, Active Directory, Network Policy Server (NPS) and RADIUS authentication for accessing network devices. Sounds simple and easy, right?? Just install the NPS role to the server, create some rules who can authenticate and that's it. Well.... As you already might guess, things aren't so easy in this land of ICT misery. I actually once said to a friend of mine that I'm not sure if my job leans more on to comical or tragical side.... But, let's move on. After carefully veri...