Enterprise Wi-Fi: profiles, 802.1X and certificates

Skills you'll practise

• Read an enterprise Wi-Fi profile with netsh and explain its authentication, EAP method and server-validation settings
• Identify which certificate (client, server or root) causes an EAP-TLS or PEAP failure and who fixes it
• Locate the failing stage of an enterprise Wi-Fi connection using client logs, the WLAN report and RADIUS evidence

Course outline

1. 1.Enterprise Wi-Fi: profiles, 802.1X and certificatesVideo · 6 min
2. 2.What's inside an enterprise Wi-Fi profileLesson · 14 min
3. 3.Certificates on both sides of the connectionLesson · 14 min
4. 4.Finding the failing stage of an enterprise Wi-Fi connectionLesson · 13 min
5. 5.Enterprise Wi-Fi: profiles, 802.1X and certificates: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Enterprise Wi-Fi: profiles, 802.1X and certificates: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.Nobody can join the office Wi-Fi this morningScenario
8. 8.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Microsoft Learn: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) for network access
• Microsoft Learn: Configure Wi-Fi settings for Windows devices in Intune
• Microsoft Learn: Netsh commands for wireless local area network (WLAN)
• IEEE 802.1X-2020: Port-Based Network Access Control