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Connect to Wifi network before user logon (pre-logon) MK

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Friday, March 4, 2016 6:22 PM

I am using Windows 10 Pro on Surface Pro 4 which is joined to the domain. Currently upon reboot & login to Windows, the wifi gets connected automatically to the network using saved credentials.

My requirement is upon reboot and before user login, the wifi should get connected to the network using saved credentials and should stay connected. Currently upon reboot, I see the Wifi is On, but in disconnected state. So I have to manually select the wireless network SSID manually and click connect and upon providing the credentials it gets connected & stay connected without user login. but I want the wifi to get automatically connected everytime upon reboot.

I want to mainly verify the pre-logon vpn connect feature for which this is the pre-requisite for VPN to connect to the gateway.

I believe there should be some registry setting to achieve this. Please share the solution to this issue.

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Monday, March 14, 2016 2:43 AM âś…Answered

Hi Manoj Kumar Satane,

Please check your network properties about the following configurations.

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Monday, March 7, 2016 6:46 AM

Hi Manoj Kumar Satane,

The main issue is that the wifi will be lost when we reboot the machine, right? Are you using "NPS" server?
Usually the wifi should be connected automatically when we tick the "save my credentials" and "autoconnect".
Please take the following steps to have a troubleshoot.
1.Reinstall the network adapter driver from the device manager.
2.Run the built-in troubleshoot tool to have  diagnostic.
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Troubleshooting\All Categories\Network Adapter
3.Disable the power saving feature of the network adapter from the device manager.
4.Run the following command line to reset the TCP/IP stack.
ipconfig /flushdns (Clear the dns cache)
nbtstat -RR (release and refresh NetBIOS names)
netsh int ip reset (reset ip settings)
netsh winsock reset (Reset Winsock Catalog)
Reboot

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Monday, March 7, 2016 11:48 PM

THank you for your response. I tried all the steps mentioned, but it didnt resolve the issue.

The main issue is: the wifi connection is not established untill I login to the machine. This could be upon reboot before user login or upon user signing out.

I want the Wifi connected even when the user is not signed in. As mentioned, the Wifi is ON and it detect the available networks, but it doesnt get connected automatically. I have to manually select the wireless network, enter the credentials and then it gets connected.


Monday, March 14, 2016 2:42 AM

Hi Manoj Kumar Satane,

Please check the following configurations of your network propertises.

Best regards

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016 7:56 PM

The above settings might be helpful for the client device, but what about NPS and RADIUS config? if engineer has multiple devices such as Surface Pro and GPOs are used to set the settings, what should be done for the Wifi authentication using certificates, assumiing that the device is on a domain and EAP-TLS is used for authentication?