There are some ways to do this, none of them are pretty.
1) Specify DNS Server and WINS settings. This is only a little ugly and after a few tries, they'll give up on connecting to anything other than the local network.
2) Disable DHCP and specify everything manually. In a smallish environment this isn't too much of a problem, the larger the environment, the more of a nightmare this becomes. This is really ugly though because now they can't connect to anything that isn't local to their local site.
The most obvious solution is to stop giving people laptops. If you don't want them doing things outside of your network, give them desktop computers and you won't have to worry about spending twice as much on hardware and then spending twice as much managing the items also. Lock down the desktop with a lockdown device and forget about this problem.
Alternatively, I think you could ACL the directory (or executable) where the application runs from and only allow SYSTEM to run it (this might break it though, so you'd want to do some testing first obviously). I haven't messed with the wireless connection wizard much and you might end up with people installing the wireless connection wizard for their particular wireless card, which would completely defeat the purpose of whatever you're doing anyway, unless they're not local admins.
Also, if they are using PC wireless cards, they can simply change PC card ports and they'll get a new device that they can probably configure however they want.
On 9/12/06,
Dave Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Folks,Have I missed something in the "new" XPSP2 wireless configuration stuff. As far as I can see you can't prevent users connecting to non-preferred networks, even with Policy lockdown. Even if you hide the networks page on the adaptor, when the user is in a location where this no network, the connection wizard still pops up. Any one any solution to this?Dave WadeStockport MBC
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