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February 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM
stein_brian

How to deploy new certificates to wireless clients (WPA2 Enterprise)?

by stein_brian . Updated 15 years, 4 months ago

So we have a pilot program going with about 100 Ipads. We created a new wireless network specifically for these 100 Ipads that is very simple and basically it’s a non-broadcasted SSID using WPA2 Enterprise security that we configured on each Ipad before we gave them out. Now I wasn’t here when this was first setup but what I’ve discovered is after setting up the wireless settings on the ipad it prompts to accept a self signed certificate from the Radius server (one of our AD domain controllers). Once accepted the ipad joins the network and all works great. What I found though is that this self signed certificate expires this May. So my questions are: 1) What will happen to the ipads wireless once their certs expire in May? I’m assuming they will lose access to the wireless network. 2) Is there a way to make the ipads automtically get an updated cert if I renew the cert on the server? I’m looking for some insight in moving forward with this to prevent an issue come May. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, thank you!

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