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Windows 11 clients cannot authenticate to NPS server using computer authentication
We have a Windows server 2019 datacenter server running NPS. Our WiFi Office clients authenticate to this server for access to the corporate WiFi network. We use computer authentication, so members o...
- Had this with 802.1x and AlwaysOn VPN. Maybe it's the same for your Wifi profile,. The reason is documented here https://directaccess.richardhicks.com/2021/09/23/always-on-vpn-error-853-on-windows-11/
Not yet, all my hopes are resting on this forum post 🙂
We figured our issue out. We had a GPO that pointed to our NPS server and in the GPO the NPS server name was all lowercase and our NPS server is capitalized. That was ultimately the problem. A simple fix but not obvious at all
OK something unexpected here... I had to recreate the WiFi profile using a new Profile Name (Windows remembered the lower case setting if the profile had the same name).
This solved the issue, so in the end it was also the case sensitivity that was introduced in Windows 11.
Thanks a lot guys!
