That's an idea!
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Policy to block roaming on sprint mobile broadband. 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. Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSITE * ON DEMAND 952.279.6218...Direct Dial 612.386.3946...Mobile 877.471.6495...eFax www.Rollouts.com<blocked::http://www.Rollouts.com> www.e-Technicians.net<http://www.e-technicians.net/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment(s) are intended only for the designated recipient(s). Rollouts Incorporated prohibits use, distribution or transmittal by or to an unintended recipient without Rollouts' express written approval. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this email and notify Rollouts. ________________________________ 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. ________________________________ 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 ________________________________ 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. 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