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I'm a school Technology Director and we've recently purchased 7 Vista
Ultimate laptops from Dell for our Special Education teachers who travel
around the building and must do data entry from home. They connect to both
ethernet and wireless, depending on where in the building they are located.
We do not have building-wide wireless due to cost and the fact that we may
build a new school within a year or two.
The problem is this: my users do not have Administrative privileges. As
some of these users use wireless at either home or work, the LAN adapter gets
disabled. Then, we they try to connect to the LAN again, it says they need
administrative rights to enable the network adapter. Sometimes this happens
after a hibernation, as well. I checked the power settings and it seems to
occur whether or not they have the network adapter enabled or disabled when
the laptop is running on battery.
1) Is this behavior by design?
2) If so, is there a way around it? Group policy, registry setting, etc.?
Thank you,
Pam McLeod
Director of Technology
Alton School District
Alton, NH
(e-mail address removed)12.nh.us
Ultimate laptops from Dell for our Special Education teachers who travel
around the building and must do data entry from home. They connect to both
ethernet and wireless, depending on where in the building they are located.
We do not have building-wide wireless due to cost and the fact that we may
build a new school within a year or two.
The problem is this: my users do not have Administrative privileges. As
some of these users use wireless at either home or work, the LAN adapter gets
disabled. Then, we they try to connect to the LAN again, it says they need
administrative rights to enable the network adapter. Sometimes this happens
after a hibernation, as well. I checked the power settings and it seems to
occur whether or not they have the network adapter enabled or disabled when
the laptop is running on battery.
1) Is this behavior by design?
2) If so, is there a way around it? Group policy, registry setting, etc.?
Thank you,
Pam McLeod
Director of Technology
Alton School District
Alton, NH
(e-mail address removed)12.nh.us