KB5014754: Certificate-based authentication changes on Windows 2012 domain controllers

Customer has 2012 DC’s with NPS and the Azure MFA extension for their Cisco Meraki Client VPN
 
All staff were not able to connect to the VPN from 8am. I have not found why it started at this time. Users before this were able to log in…
 
Event Viewer showed Unknown username or bad password in use.
 

 
The NPS MFA extension leads you down a path that isn’t correct (for me). Dont trust this.
 

 
Also dont trust the reason codes in the NPS logs
You may see reason code 21, <Reason-Code data_type=”0″>21</Reason-Code></Event> Further pointing to MFA extension issues.
 
 
 
Run with powershell and select option 1 to temporarily remove the MFA requirement and attempt a login to prove its not MFA.
 
New errors in NPS logs.
I was getting <Reason-Code data_type=”0″>16</Reason-Code> Not the most helpful and there are LOTS of results. But I found the below recent article which fixed it for me. 
 
I did apply these keys for all the domain controllers. But that might be overkill and unnecessary. The real fix is to get off server 2012.
 
 
 
This isn’t complete yet, after enabling MFA I now have TLS and cipher errors from the MFA plugin. 
 
But hopefully this will be an easy fix.
 

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