Re: Setting On-Demand Wireless Connection

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This is not necessarally what we want to do, we do want to allow some
wireless networks to automaticallly connect (like maybe the users home
network). I can do this thru the GUI, (useing the advanced wireless config)
but I can not seem to figure how to do it using GPO's or the like.

"allan_grossman@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> Hi -
>
> This can be done with a simple registry edit - but before you do so
> it'd be a good idea to insure the wireless card's configuration utility
> does not depend on Windows Wireless Zero Configuration service - you
> can run services.msc to disable the service as a test. If disabling
> the service works for you, all you have to do is change
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC\Start
>
> from the default 2 (automatic) to 4 (disabled).
>
> This can be done in a as an SMS job, as part of a login script or
> manually on each machine - but a couple of these options will prompt
> for confirmation on the user's workstation.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> RAH wrote:
> > We do not want people to automatically connect to the wireless network. We
> > can manually set up the network to me an on-demand (manual) connection in the
> > advanced wireless settings. How can we automate this?
>
>
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