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stewdesmarais
Copper Contributor
Jul 20, 2023

Looking for assistance with NPS cert based Wifi for Macs and PCs

So we have a somewhat unique situation that I am trying to figure out any solution that works.. We are currently using Meraki hardware for our wireless system and we have a directive from management ...
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Infotechninja
MCT
Jul 27, 2023

Hi stewdesmarais-validity,
You can issue certs to no corp devices if this is something you wish to do but may not be able to automate it.

Below is a link that you can use to get an idea about setting NPS up with certificate based authentication for Domain joined devices. Given that there are mac computers and are not domain joined, it could have been possible to join them to corporate wifi's by using intune and Apple business manager or conifgurator in which it makes it part of AAD Devices.

I suggest following the below guide for domain joined computers and then look at the second link from apple about Connecting Apple devices to 802.1X networks. As this should give you an Idea as what I am referring to with connecting using and MDM solution or Apple configurator to get your NPS setup going.

https://dailysysadmin.com/KB/Article/690/configure-802-1x-certificate-based-authentication-meraki-wireless-access-points-microsoft-nps-authentication/

Connect Apple devices to 802.1X networks
https://support.apple.com/en-eg/guide/deployment/depabc994b84/web

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stewdesmarais
Copper Contributor
Aug 02, 2024
Sorry for the VERY late reply. Just to close this out. We eventually realized that without joining our macs to the domain and/or without doing a lot of manual work to record all of our macs in AD, it would never work. We ended up purchasing a cloud PKI and RADIUS from a 3rd party and all of our certificate and RADIUS issues are gone.

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