Importing Wireless Profile Fails with: The network connection profile is corrupted

Question

_{Thursday, August 29, 2013 7:00 PM}

I have a Windows Embedded 8 image that that works fine with both wired and wireless networking, all drivers are installed and the latest version.

However, any time we try to import a wireless profile for a WPA2 wireless network (netsh wlan add profile filename="{ProfileName}" we get the error message "Profile format error 0x80420011: The network connection profile is corrupted." I have created the wireless profiles on both Windows 8 and Windows 7 systems and both profiles give the same error.

I have successfully imported this exact same profile XML file into two other Windows 8 (not Embedded) machines, one which was the exact same hardware as the system that is giving this error. I was also able to import the wireless profile for a WPA2PSK wireless network with absolutely no issue.

I am installing the following network components as part of my ICE configuration:

• Extensible Authentication Protocol Host (EAPHost)
• Internet Authentication Service
• Simple TCP/IP Services
• Network and Sharing Center

At this point the only thing I can think of is that I am missing one or more Windows Features/components required for this to work. Does anyone have any ideas what else might be required for WPA2-Enterprise profiles to be imported?

Thanks!

All replies (3)

_{Friday, September 6, 2013 7:18 PM ✅Answered}

For anyone interested, I have isolated the missing package.

It was the feature "Remote Access," which can be found in the Image Configuration Editor under "Features->Networking->Network Management->Remote Access". 

The description says nothing about Wireless or even LANs (I associate VPNs with the description), which made it one of the last networking-related feature packs that I tested...

_{Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:27 PM}

The best solution is to build a full image and see if it works. If it does then you know you are missing a module. Searching help doesn't yield WPA specifically.

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_{Friday, August 30, 2013 2:27 PM}

Thanks, I'll give a full install a try. I was just putting it off because on the device we're using it takes 4 hours to do an install with limited options.