I have a Windows 2008 domain with 1,000+ client computers. I purchased both of Jeremy Moskowitz's books and I have been using GPSI for all of my app installes to clients that I imaged with "Thin" XPSP3 images via WDS. This has been working great with my wired clients.

Now I am trying to set up 300+ wireless "thin" XPSP3 clients and they are not picking up GPSI for the app depoy.

In my research, it seems that the issue is because when the wireless clients restart, they do not actually connect to the network until the user logs in and so assigned GPSI never gets started. I can't believe that there isn't a solution to this especially with the rapidly growing number of wireless clients.

I found some posts on the net that talk about setting up 802.1x authentication and EAP in order to allow the wireless computer account to authenticate and initiate the GPSI policies, but I want to make sure this is the best route before I reconfigure all of my access points, which are currently set up for WPA-PSK + TKIP.

Has anyone had any success with GPSI and wireless clients? If so, could you share your approach?

Thanks,

Dave