Microsoft’s April 2025 Kerberos protections — delivered to close CVE‑2025‑26647 — introduced a new operational knob, AllowNtAuthPolicyBypass, that was intended to let administrators audit then enforce stricter certificate-based authentication behavior on domain controllers; the rollout fixed a...
Microsoft will remove support for the StrongCertificateBindingEnforcement registry key on Windows domain controllers on September 10, 2025, forcing a permanent switch to stricter, strong certificate-to-account mappings that will break legacy certificate-based authentication setups unless...
Urgent: What CVE-2025-55229 Means for Windows — A Deep Dive for Admins and Power Users
By WindowsForum.com Staff Reporter — August 21, 2025
Summary — quick take
Microsoft has published a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-55229 that affects Windows certificate handling: an improper verification...
Describes an issue that prevents Windows 10 devices from connecting to a WPA-2 Enterprise network that's using certificates for server-side or mutual authentication. Occurs after you apply the Windows 10 November update. A resolution is provided.
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Fixes a Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 issue where 802.1X authentication fails intermittently after you connect the computer to a network that uses IEEE 802.1X authentication. This issue occurs when you set up the connection by using a...
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Fixes an issue in which you cannot connect a computer to an IEEE 802.1X-authenticated network through another 802.1x enabled device (such as a VOIP phone) after you resume this computer from hibernation or from sleep. This issue occurs in all Windows...
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Fixes an issue in which you cannot connect a computer to an IEEE 802.1X-authenticated network through a NAP-enabled device after you resume this computer from hibernation or from sleep. This issue occurs in all Windows operating systems.
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Fixes an issue in which a computer that is running Windows 7 may connect to a guest network instead of a corporate network. This issue occurs after you deploy IEEE 802.1X wireless settings for the corporate network on the computer by using Group Policy...
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Describes an issue that may occur when you have a Gigabit network adapter installed in a Windows-based computer or it takes an extended time to retrieve a workign IP address, e.g. NAP or NAC or 802.1x. In this situation, event ID 5719 is logged every...
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Fixes an issue in which a computer that is running Windows 7 may connect to a guest network instead of a corporate network. This issue occurs after you deploy IEEE 802.1X wireless settings for the corporate network on the computer by using Group Policy.
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Hi,
I have come across a problem that I was unable to fix.
I need a script that configures 802.1x authentication in windows 7 for the wired network.
Windows 7 has a great improvement over XP, the netsh lan profileproperties command. it enables me to configure all settings I want to tweak...
Depending on where your travels take you, access to wireless networks can be more or less secure. The last secure wireless network I connected to was password protected with 802.1x PEAP. The wireless network help desk has printed instructions for connecting your XP or Vista laptop, but no...
I am setting up my wireless to use 802.1x. My AP is using WPA. When I confifure on my laptop, the only option for encryptiion is WEP. I have downloaded the latest drivers for the adapter, and tried to install the Windows Hotfix for WPA support (WindowsXP-KB893357-v2-x86-ENU.exe). The patch...