Enabling Wireless Before Logon for Active Directory We are purchasing computers in the next week on our Enterprise network and will have a mix of Macs and PCs. We are currently running our AD server on Windows Server 2008R2.
We use folder redirection and mounting for all of our users, and would want the folder to automount on login for Apple. We have a LAN and also a radius authenticated wireless network on PEAP.

I have successfully joined the AD with my MB Pro, but cannot login to AD due to the wireless not working before login.

Has anyone ran across this issue before or know of a fix?
note: this will get the laptop online before login, so all users are online using the same credentials--there could be a way to enable wifi so that users can get online themselves before logging in (Apple bring that back!!)

since newer MacOS dropped the plus in 802.11x pill (and we want it as a computer profile, not user profile), I used "Apple Configurator 2" app, File menu > New Profile, then configured my Certificates (I first went into my Keychain Access app, searched for "pitt.edu", my school domain, then click and dragged that cert out to my desktop to make a copy easy to find), opened aformentioned .cer, then configured Wi-Fi, noting that I had to click the Trust pill and check the box for the aformentioned cert, closed and saved (note: you may not need a cert, so you might skip that stuff)

then I right-click and open with TextEdit that new xml file, and inside the first &lt;dict&gt;&lt;/dict&gt; section, added (like right after where ssid mentioned):


   &lt;key&gt;SetupModes&lt;/key&gt;
   &lt;array&gt;
      &lt;string&gt;Loginwindow&lt;/string&gt;
      &lt;string&gt;System&lt;/string&gt;
   &lt;/array&gt;



then in terminal, run (be sure to be root or sudo, otherwise, it will just be a user profile add):


   sudo profiles install -type startup -path thefileyoujustcreated.mobileconfig -forced
   sudo shutdown -r now