We have a GPO to configure 802.1x wireless computer policies and it works, but takes a very long time.
If I'm already logged into Windows, disconnect wireless and reconnect, it only takes less that 10 seconds to reconnect and for the system to respond to ping.
If the laptop is rebooted, it takes more than 90 seconds for wireless to connect and respond to ping.
To "work around" this delayed wireless connection during boot, I have configured a GPO to configure startup policy processing wait time to 120 seconds. This makes users wait a very long time before the login prompt is available and it is very annoying.
However, if I leave startup policy wait time at the defaults, the laptops boot at normal speeds, but there is no network connection available which means Software Installation GPOs and startup scripts assigned to the computer don't work, new users cannot log into the laptop because domain controllers cannot be reached to authenticate them and if they have a cached profile, they log in and have no mapped drives or network connectivity to anything because not enough time was allowed for the wireless profile to configure and wireless to connect.
What can we do to make 802.1x wireless connection profiles apply faster during system reboots?