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Nettric
Oct 30, 2025Copper Contributor
Deploying Multiple NPS Servers
 I have been working on ditching our password-based WiFi with WPA2-Enterprise.  On DC1 I deployed internal CA, NPS, and group policies that auto-request certs and deploy wireless network settings. Cis...
Nettric
Oct 31, 2025Copper Contributor
Much appreciated...
I resolved this issue. It was a Windows firewall issue, only. Apparently, there is still a bug where when NPS role is installed and the Windows firewall rules are auto-created, the firewall rules don't actually work. I had to manually add an inbound rule for Radius Authentication and Radius Accounting.
Once I did that, I disabled NPS on DC1, leaving DC2 as the only NPS server, and my test clients connected just fine. Thanks Microsoft.
Side note: Yes, the trusted root cert from my CA was present on the test client and all needed certs had already been issued to DC2 and were present in DC2's Personal folder.