[WinPartners] Domain laptops wireless authentication problem

[Patrick McNeal]

We also have the same problem.  This is what the IS&T help desk told me
about it back in October:

To follow up with you on your question about accessing the MIT SECURE network
> on Windows 7 *before* user logs into their machine, this is a scenario that
> the Network and Security group at IS&T are aware of and they are working to
> find a possible solution for this. However, up to this point we do not have
> any specific solution to offer.
>


One possible workaround to try may be to have the users connect to the
> regular MIT or MIT N network for now, until this issue is resolved.


I've not heard anything since, and assume that the issue has not been
resolved.  With the switch quickly approaching, hopefully we'll hear
something soon.

--Patrick

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Brandon Mills <rmills at mit.edu> wrote:

Currently all of my win.mit.edu laptops, by default, log into the unsecured
> MIT wireless connections during startup. Since it's a computer and not a
> user, I can't use MIT Secure authentication. I believe it is possible to
> use computer-based authentication with wireless networks, but I don't
> believe MIT supports this. To my knowledge, nothing is going to replace
> this functionality in win.mit.edu laptops. This presents problems such as
> the laptops never applying group policy update software installations.
>
> Is anything in the works to replace this functionality? Maybe I'm missing
> some piece of this puzzle?
>