Deploying Dell Lattitude D620's on wireless network

[Guest]

Hey guys Ive been tasked with deploying 48 Dell Lattitude D620's on a
wireless network. Im not looking forward to sitting in front of 48 machines
entering WEP keys and SSID's as well as Proxy information. Is there a way to
automate this procedure with a USB key or CD-ROM.

I also have 24 Macbooks to put on the same network or different network of
my choice. If someone can provide a Mac soloution to the same problem as
above I would appreciate any help.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Hey guys Ive been tasked with deploying 48 Dell Lattitude D620's on
a wireless network. Im not looking forward to sitting in front of
48 machines entering WEP keys and SSID's as well as Proxy
information. Is there a way to automate this procedure with a USB
key or CD-ROM.

I also have 24 Macbooks to put on the same network or different
network of my choice. If someone can provide a Mac soloution to the
same problem as above I would appreciate any help.

Are you a system administrator/IT staff/etc?

Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

I'd think about iumaging first. Install the first machine how you want them
all to be, make an image using Symantec Ghost, Acronis TrueImage, BootItNG,
etc, apply that image to the rest and change the product key & SID on each
of them. Done.

You could also make some sort of unattended network install.
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

Or - since you are dealing with wireless - possibly a CD/DVD unattended
install would be easier to setup/manage.
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

For the Macintosh systems - imaging is still my top suggestion...
http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html

 

[Guest]

You can export the currently used wireless profile by using the "netsh wlan
export profile" command and the corresponding "netsh wlan add profile"
command (best used in sysprep).

Now, the problem (my problem, coincidentally enough) is that XP doesn't like
the <sharedkey> entry in the xml file. Vista handles it fine. Does anyone
know a work around for this?


Patrick