One of our biggest issues with migrating to Windows 7 has been the
problem of laptops needing to logon before the laptop would connect to
the wireless. Therefore it was impossible to logon as a domain user
using only a wireless connection.
Finally, we found a simple solution.
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Set up a wireless profile.We use a WPA-2 PSK with AES. But use whatever best suits your needs. |
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Check your WLAN profile name.In a command prompt, get the name of your profile by running netsh wlan show profile |
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Create a regisrty entryrun regedit Find the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key. Add a string value to the above mentioned key. Call it anything (WLAN prelogon), but its value should be
Of course, replace <profile name> with your profile name that you previously created. |
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Add to GPOIf you have a lot of computers to configure for this, add it to Group Policy.
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Update Group Policyrun gpupdate /force /boot on all computers that you want updated. This will create the registry entry and reboot. |
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Conclusion
As long as the wireless hardware switch is turned on, the computer will now connect to the wireless network before any user logs on. Therefore, a domain user logon will now work wirelessly.
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2047-enable-wireless-connection-pre-logon-on-domain