Wifi – Is it possible to logon to a domain via wireless in windows 7

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We have 200 odd wireless-only laptops that I want to put on a domain. The wireless authentication is user based, so establishing a wireless connection before the logon is not possible i.e. machine authentication is not possible.

However, the credentials for wireless auth and the domain are the same. Is it possible to configure the machines so windows tries to establish the wireless connection as the first part of the logon process? i.e. SSO?

Just to make things more complicated, the wireless system uses a supplicant (SecureW2) for authentication.

Best Answer

A portion of the information on this page is relevant to your question. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727033.aspx

I agree that removal of securew2 from the required configuration would likely aid in accomplishing this task.