Creamer, Mark wrote:
Can someone explain the mechanics of the logon for me, when the user is on a wireless connection? We have Cisco Wireless Access Points, and a Cisco ACS, but I haven’t been involved with their setup. Basically the deal is when a user logs in to a wired LAN connection, the logon script always runs. When they log on with wireless, the logon script does not run. To me as a casual observer, it looks like the authentication does not happen until after a cached logon takes place and the user attempts to reach a resource requiring authentication, such as Exchange.
Probably in Your Cisco environment You have 802.1x authentication deployed. First user is placed in the guest VLAN and then after authentication on the access point user is switched to the main VLAN.
Access point authenticates user against ACS which may authenticate user against AD. CIsco ACS provides then Access point with network configuration for the user.
It's very short and trivial description but You can find a lot of docs on the web. I think You should try to find documentation for Your network deployment and read there about Your deployment.
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