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    Active Directory GPO not being pushed via wireless network

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    by chris ·

    I was hoping someone out there may be able to point me in the right direction. I have recently upgraded to Server 2003. The GPO’s that were being pushed to clients no longer work and I can not get GPO’s pushed wirelessly. I had to go in a recreate the GPO in order for it to work on network connected clients.
    Wireless client still do not work. If I plug the laptop into the network the GPO will push fine. Whenever I try to push via wireless it does not work. Below is a list of what I am using:

    HP Laptops with intel wireless NIcs or Cisco PCIMCIA wireless nic adapters. Neither work.

    Cisco 1200 series access points

    We are running 802.11G using WPA2 encryption.

    The applications and internet work fine. The only piece that I seem to have issues with are pushing policies.

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    • #2538821

      Slow link detection

      by lowlands ·

      In reply to Active Directory GPO not being pushed via wireless network

      This sounds like a problem with slow link detection. There are quite a few MS articles on this. Here’s one:

      http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227260

      Also do a search on Slow link detection. there is some tuning you can do

      • #2538786

        More Information

        by chris ·

        In reply to Slow link detection

        I tried the suggestion you gave, still did not help. Here is more information about my issue:

        I can push the Security policies. It is just Software pushes that will not work. I see when they start that it appears like it is going to push then the screen skips to the authentication.

        • #2540642

          Same situation more or less..

          by mrstaun ·

          In reply to More Information

          We have in our Hong Kong department the same situation. There is only a wireless network, and no policies are applied to the workstations.

          Would you be so kind to tell what kind of setup/ policies you are running to ensure that the network-logon is ‘disabled’ until the wireless network is up and running or what you are doing to make it work.

          The HW setup is w2003, HP530 AP

          Like you our wired network works fine.

          Any help is much appreciated.

        • #2635375

          no GPO push because no network connection

          by thebadeye ·

          In reply to Same situation more or less..

          If you are using 802.11i and integrated login, the machine is not actually on the network until a user logs on, attempt machine cert id for wireless “bonded authentication” so the machine is on the network, when people are not physically logged in, then GPOs will push

    • #2513373

      Educate me more, please :-)

      by jviolanti ·

      In reply to Active Directory GPO not being pushed via wireless network

      Could someone provide more information about this solution:
      “attempt machine cert id for wireless “bonded authentication” so the machine is on the network, when people are not physically logged in, then GPOs will push”
      Is there 3rd party software required? Special switching infrastructure?

      • #2555668

        bonded authentication

        by arnaud16571542 ·

        In reply to Educate me more, please :-)

        Like users, a machine/computer already have a login and a password. You don’t need any special software to make it connected to your network.

        The “Bonded Authentication” force the user to use a wireless connected-and-authenticated computer. With this feature, the user will be forced to use YOUR company’s computers and can NOT use its personal computer to connect to your wireless network.

        For this, you need an airport that support this feature.

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