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Windows 10 - GPO - Domain Wifi auto-connect

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:15 AM

Hi Everybody,

I have an issue with my domain wifi connexion. The Auto-Connect is not working correctly.

I have some domain Windows 10 laptops, and I try to configure the Wifi connexion by GPO. The GPO is correctly done and works fine on my Windows 8.1 laptops. But not on Windows 10. With Windows 10 the Auto-connection with the session username and password is not working. The users still received a security prompt asking them to enter the credential.

for me it seem to be more a Windows 10 problem, than a Wifi problem. It's like if Windows 10 would not remember the user identification information, and would always ask the user to enter them.

Have you already see that?

I've try this:

- Disable the Windows Firewall

  • Disable Defender
  • On the GPO, I'm using the option "User the session user logon and credential info..."
  • Disable Wifi Sense

Regards & In advance Thanks for your help

Youl

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Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:55 AM

Hi Youl, 

Please check if you have enabled Computer configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Internet Communication Management\Internet Communicating Settings\Turn off Windows Network Connectivity status indicator active tests. If yes, try to turn it on.

"User the session user logon and credential info"

I am not sure if the policy was weaken on Windows 10, please provide the full route and your steps about this policy. I will check on our side as soon as you feedback to us.

Export applied Group Policy with command line "gpresult /h C:GP.html" and upload the file to OneDrive, then paste the link here.

Bests,

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Friday, October 27, 2017 1:00 PM

Hi Joy,

Thanks for your answer.

  1. about the "Turn Off Windows Network Connectivity status indicator active tests", yes it was enabled. But I also tried with "Disabled" but it did'nt change anything for me.

2.about the "Use the session user logon and credential info" your right, it's greyed on Windows 10. It doesn't seem to be available on Windows 10. If I try to modify the GPO on a Windows 8.1 computers, I have this option available, but when I modify the GPO on a Windows 10 computer this one is Greyed. 
If this option is no more available. How can I indicate that user user session "login" and "password" have to be use for the wifi?

3. here is the GPResult of my user GPOs.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhpJM1BBIGBMp3zegtzWu7RFpsIR

Anyway, the GPResult would only give you an overview of the user settings. But the Wifi settings are defined on the Computer part, so you'll probably not see a lot in this file. SO let me know if I can give you more.

The pop up that I receive is this one:

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 2:50 PM

Hi guys,

anyone had this issue?

Thanks

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:47 AM

I have the same problem, but it only appeared when I updated Windows 10 to 1709, in previous versions everything worked fine. 

I have an open case with Microsoft

Wednesday, December 27, 2017 12:55 PM

Hi,

Have the same issue. On 1607 LTSB work fine. On 1703  15063.768 autorecconect doesn't work.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 4:13 PM

Hi

You are correct. it's not a WiFi problem. This is a wlansvc service problem only happens with GPO WiFi profile in Windows 10 RS2 (1703) and Windows 10 RS3 (1709).  When the service restarts, it incorrectly erases the GPO machine Profiles. It results users may need to re-enter the credential like the first time connecting to this WiFi.

Microsoft is currently investigating the problem and the hotfix may be released in future monthly roll up. I will update this thread once the Fix is available.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 10:49 AM

Hi

You are correct. it's not a WiFi problem. This is a wlansvc service problem only happens with GPO WiFi profile in Windows 10 RS2 (1703) and Windows 10 RS3 (1709).  When the service restarts, it incorrectly erases the GPO machine Profiles. It results users may need to re-enter the credential like the first time connecting to this WiFi.

Microsoft is currently investigating the problem and the hotfix may be released in future monthly roll up. I will update this thread once the Fix is available.

Any news on this? Is there a workaround available?

Thursday, June 7, 2018 12:08 PM

Hi

You are correct. it's not a WiFi problem. This is a wlansvc service problem only happens with GPO WiFi profile in Windows 10 RS2 (1703) and Windows 10 RS3 (1709).  When the service restarts, it incorrectly erases the GPO machine Profiles. It results users may need to re-enter the credential like the first time connecting to this WiFi.

Microsoft is currently investigating the problem and the hotfix may be released in future monthly roll up. I will update this thread once the Fix is available.

Any news on this? Is there a workaround available?

I opened a Microsoft case and it's scheduled to be fixed in this months patches. So we'll have to wait and see I guess :)

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:57 AM

Just ran updates, still not fixed...

Thursday, August 16, 2018 7:11 PM

do you have by any chance DeviceGard enabled in GPO? had a case with MS and that was the problem for me..

Friday, August 17, 2018 5:49 AM

In my case it was a mix of the bug in 1709 and Credential Guard. The WiFi profile is using MSCHAPv2 and obviously this authentication flow is broken by Credential Guard.