RE: [ActiveDir] How to identify a users current site?

[joe]

I agree with Al, the solution is in the wireless hardware for this, not in AD.

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:33 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] How to identify a users current site?

Not sure this solves your problem however.

 

If you want to find out what the current site is and map the user based on that, I have to assume you're talking about AD site and not physical site. I suspect there will be a chicken and egg problem that occurs trying to figure out what ssid grouping you should belong to prior to the logon, but....

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/sites/adsivb11.mspx gives an example of how to determine the current site a computer is in.

 

As for suggestions, I highly suggest you contact the vendor of your wifi solution and ask how they suggest you solve the grouping issue.  Get several answers so you have something to choose from though.  WiFi deployments are still new enough you can get all kinds of answers and several might be fine.

 

Al

 

On 5/19/06, Sem 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have an interesting problem,  any suggestions welcome.

 

4000 laptops

5 sites

Each site has 2 wifi access points (with aerials over the entire site)

So 10 ssid's

Windows 2003 SP2 AD infrastructure.

 

I need to get users to connect to a specific AP on the site where they currently are.

No more than 400 users can connect to any one AP.  

All users roam from site to site.

Normally there are no more than 800 users on any one site at one time.

The access points can use groups to allocate users to SSID's via GP.

I don't really want to have to visit each PC.

I can script quite well.  I am also ok at AD.

 

The problem

I need to allocate users to the SSID (AP) local to them using GP or any other mechanism but no more than 400 to each AP.

 

How can I identify which site a user is logged into and add them to a group.

I think I can handle the replication delay.

 

Any help or suggestions welcome

 

Cheers

 

Sem