We are currently rolling out Windows 10 Enterprise 1511 on a new Customer and we encountered a problem with Policies not being applied on Wifi Connection even though Wait for Network Connection Policies etc is applied. After login in to the system you can either do a GPUPDATE /Force or just wait and policies are applied after random intervalls of 15-45min. Same System on a wired connection works.
After troubleshooting DNS, NAP, 802.1x Policies and logging network activity i found this post on https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6a20e3f6-728a-4aa9-831a-6133f446ea08/gpos-do-not-apply-on-windows-10-enterprise-x64?forum=winserverGP, It turns out that UNC Hardening is by default turned on in W10. After a little investigation there are alot of information regarding that this should have been changed in W10 Ent 1511 release but it clearly is not. After getting home from the office i did some more testing and Inplace Upgrades from W8, W8.1 is not affected by this since they were solved with a Patch from Microsoft disabling the UNC hardening feature by default..
MS15-011 covers more deept in the case of UNC hardening:
Windows 10 - Policies not applied during boot
in Group Policy
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We are currently rolling out Windows 10 Enterprise 1511 on a new Customer and we encountered a problem with Policies not being applied on Wifi Connection even though Wait for Network Connection Policies etc is applied. After login in to the system you can either do a GPUPDATE /Force or just wait and policies are applied after random intervalls of 15-45min. Same System on a wired connection works.
After troubleshooting DNS, NAP, 802.1x Policies and logging network activity i found this post on https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6a20e3f6-728a-4aa9-831a-6133f446ea08/gpos-do-not-apply-on-windows-10-enterprise-x64?forum=winserverGP, It turns out that UNC Hardening is by default turned on in W10. After a little investigation there are alot of information regarding that this should have been changed in W10 Ent 1511 release but it clearly is not. After getting home from the office i did some more testing and Inplace Upgrades from W8, W8.1 is not affected by this since they were solved with a Patch from Microsoft disabling the UNC hardening feature by default..