I would fire up RegMon to find your affected registry keys.  Deploy as
needed.
 
OR, if you feeling fancy and want to impress management:
 
Run a script on the PC that determines if the WAN IP of the Sprint Card
is associated to a location other than the US.  If so, break the
connection and have a nasty pop-up that scolds the user (Optional :)
That would keep their ability to roam domestically (A must have in my
opinion (See my other post)), but block internationally roaming.
 
There are some downloadable IP/Country databases you can obtain to
query, or parse a web service result via a script.
 
ip2location.exe can do this.  Not sure how their pricing would work in
this scenario.  http://www.ip2location.com/ip2location-application.aspx
 
 ip2location.exe -datafile <IP2Loation_database>
                 -inputfile <IP_list_input_file>
                 -ip <single_IP_address>
                 -outputfile <output_file_name>
                 -format <output_format>
                 -help
                 -version
 
 
Example:
ip2location.exe -datafile IP-COUNTRY-DATABASE.BIN -ip 192.168.1.100
 
 
 
 
Nirsoft (I love these guys) has a tool for this.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
 
Free.
 
Perhaps you could find a MX Based VPN service to test your script.
 

 

 

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From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband.



Called sprint and asked, they said they could not block, that it had to
be done in the software.

 

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband.

 

Did what?  

 

They don't consider Canada and Mexico international?  Last I check,
those places were not in the USA.

 

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From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband.

I did.  These charges were from Canada and Mexico.

 

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband.

 

Ask Sprint to block international use.

 

If I were you, I would leave domestic roaming enabled.  I have a ton of
these Sprint cards deployed.  Half the time my employees need them, it's
in an area that requires roaming.  I have one too, and 98% of the time I
use it I'm roaming.  

 

Sprint doesn't charge for domestic roaming on broadband cards.  At least
with the business lines they don't...

 

Sam

 

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From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband.

It's killing me.  I gotta ask.

 

How much was the bill?

 

From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband.

 

I have over 250 salesman with mobile broadband cards.  One genius went
to a beach in Mexico and fired up his laptop and watched movies on hulu.

Needless to say, his stupidity creates a massive project in IT.   I have
1 registry setting and I am searching for the other.   Has anyone
created a policy to block roaming?

 

Yes I know he should pay for it, etc.   But I am not the CEO.

 

Any help will be appreciated, Sprint will not block and Novatel hasn't
given me an answer yet.

 

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