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Windows 10 - Wireless Machine authentication with a connected cable

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  • 1.  Windows 10 - Wireless Machine authentication with a connected cable

    Posted Jul 20, 2018 04:58 AM

    Hi everyone,

    I have problem with Windows 10 and machine authentication. 

     

    When user comes to work, he plugs his laptop into the dock where he has a cable connection. When he start computer, Windows does not automatically connect to the wireless network because it has a cable connection.

     

    When user pushes a laptop from the docking station during work, windows automatically tries to connect to Wi-Fi with no success. User authentication is successful, but ClearPass does not let users go because the machine is not authenticated.

     

    When the computer is started (or the user logs off) without a cable, then everything works great.

     

    Has anyone had this problem? This is default behavior of Windows 10, so I'm certainly not the only one with this issue :)

     

    Thank you in advance for your help.



  • 2.  RE: Windows 10 - Wireless Machine authentication with a connected cable

    Posted Jul 20, 2018 07:29 AM
    That’s a normal behavior , how long is the machine authentication cache set to in ClearPass ? The default cache is 24 hours you might need to increase it



    Thank you

    Victor Fabian

    Pardon typos sent from Mobile


  • 3.  RE: Windows 10 - Wireless Machine authentication with a connected cable

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jul 20, 2018 09:01 AM
    Correct. There is no correlation between the two interfaces. You would need to put the OnGuard agent on the device to be able to correlate the interfaces together.


  • 4.  RE: Windows 10 - Wireless Machine authentication with a connected cable
    Best Answer

    Posted Jul 23, 2018 06:06 AM

    I found a solution. You need to disable the function of minimizing the amount of network connections. Below the solution by Regedit or GPO.

     

    Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Subkey: \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WcmSvc\GroupPolicy\

    Value Name: fMinimizeConnections

    Type: REG_DWORD
    Value: 0


    Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Windows Connection Manager -> "Minimize the number of simultaneous connections to the Internet or a Windows Domain" to "Disabled".