Setting On-Demand Wireless Connection

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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?
 
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 -
 
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.
 
Neither could I - GPOs would have been my first choice. Maybe what we
need is someone a little sharper than both of us to weigh in with an
idea - I'm sure this can be done programatically but I'm not a
programmer.

Let's leave the question out there a bit longer and see if someone else
comes up with an idea.

thanks -
 
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