> We have just setup wireless in our office.  Instead of going to each
> laptop & manually  setting Windows to manage wireless and then adding
> the SSID, network encryption & network key, is there a way to remotely
> add this info to each laptop either thru a profile or the registry?
>
> Thx,
>

"Danny Gallegos" <dan***@bogusaddress.rst> wrote in message
news:e2e10fde677e8c8d23390f205a0@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello LAM,
> I have had similar ideas. I don't think there is an easy way to deploy
> this particular information out to remote machines. You can always remote
> desktop and manually add in the details. Of course you're still manually
> doing it but it saves the trips to each station. You can create a whole
> new image for each station and ghost that image out to all the machines,
> but this seems a bit over the top. You can create a custom profile,
> capture it and store it somewhere (like a server) but you still need to
> make a trip to each machine and run the wizard.
> I believe it to be best practice to manually punch the network pass phrase
> key for the wireless encryption. This way to ensure the correct key is
> punched in and confirmed. Hope this helps.
>
>
> Danny Gallegos
> Roland Schorr & Tower
> http://www.rolandschorr.com
>
>> We have just setup wireless in our office.  Instead of going to each
>> laptop & manually  setting Windows to manage wireless and then adding
>> the SSID, network encryption & network key, is there a way to remotely
>> add this info to each laptop either thru a profile or the registry?
>>
>> Thx,
>>
>
>

"Sooner Al [MVP]" wrote:

> You might try using Windows Connect Now (WCN) to setup the wireless
> parameters on a flash drive then use the flash drive to configure your
> laptop clients.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx
>
> If you have older clients that do not support WCN you can copy the
> appropriate encryption key from the \Smrtntky\Wsetting.txt file on the flash
> drive into the wireless parameters on the client.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx#EJCAC
>
> I have never tried this but I suppose you could also copy the WCN
> files/folder to a network accessible drive and users could run the
> configuration or copy the files/folder to their laptop/PC for later use.
>
> Of course this all may be moot if you have a large amount of clients to
> configure...
>
> Additionally you would need to manually change the resulting encryption type
> on each client if your network uses WPA-PSK (AES) or WPA2 since WCN does not
> support that. You will also need to manually copy the encryption key to any
> wireless access point that does not have a USB port.
>
> I do know that WCN works well for me in my small SoHo environment. In my
> case I use WPA-PSK (AES) with two wireless clients.
>
> --
>
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>
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>
> "Danny Gallegos" <dan***@bogusaddress.rst> wrote in message
> news:e2e10fde677e8c8d23390f205a0@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > Hello LAM,
> > I have had similar ideas. I don't think there is an easy way to deploy
> > this particular information out to remote machines. You can always remote
> > desktop and manually add in the details. Of course you're still manually
> > doing it but it saves the trips to each station. You can create a whole
> > new image for each station and ghost that image out to all the machines,
> > but this seems a bit over the top. You can create a custom profile,
> > capture it and store it somewhere (like a server) but you still need to
> > make a trip to each machine and run the wizard.
> > I believe it to be best practice to manually punch the network pass phrase
> > key for the wireless encryption. This way to ensure the correct key is
> > punched in and confirmed. Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > Danny Gallegos
> > Roland Schorr & Tower
> > http://www.rolandschorr.com
> >
> >> We have just setup wireless in our office.  Instead of going to each
> >> laptop & manually  setting Windows to manage wireless and then adding
> >> the SSID, network encryption & network key, is there a way to remotely
> >> add this info to each laptop either thru a profile or the registry?
> >>
> >> Thx,
> >>
> >
> >
>