So after pushing out Microsoft Office for Mac to all the MacBooks in our district, which was made easier through Apple Remote Desktop, I walked into a pool of "applesauce" last Thursday. We have been trucking along for a year with our wireless 802.1x configuration and bam, none of the MacBooks will connect. After a few hours of troubleshooting and being told by my co-worker that the PCs are working so it must be something with the Macs he finally realizes that the certificate could have expired. Which didn't affect the PCs because they ignore the certificate.
I had to then again make arrangements for all teachers and ITRT's to plug in the MacBooks to Ethernet so that I could remote in, delete the wireless profile, re-create it so that it would get the new certificate.
If anyone has any tips on how to do this without re-creating the profile please let me know. Apple, Inc doesn't want to give answers because of course we aren't using a Mac OSX server for authentication. Either way it shouldn't matter because it is a configuration setting on the Mac itself, it has nothing to do with the cert server.
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