We took a crack at this. What we found was that it is quite easy to do with Vista, but the variety of Vendor OEM wireless managers in use for XP and some nasty XP spyware frequently interfered with the tool. We are under the recent impression that the iD-Engines product has had a better success rate and we are considering using that. As a contingency we also have some development code using the Nicomsoft library which may someday have the functions we need.
For Macintosh we created an applescript tool that loads a saved profile but there is no mechanism for saving that profiles credentials reliably, so we would get occasional calls that it didn't work. Up-to-date Macintosh systems configure themselves very easily without any tool. The current recommendation is to have the user update the OS and let the Connection Manager perform (and save) the configuration. Leopard may change that based on the initial feedback, but I suspect Apple has the ability to resolve these issues again. Rather than hike around with flash drives, we have a xxhelp SSID (where xx is our trademarked SSID) that is open but goes nowhere but the registration/download system. <><Randy ________________________________ From: Nathan Hay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating wireless configuration on clients We are researching ways to automate the creation of our SSID on a student's laptop via a script of some kind. Our technicians would pop in a flash drive, run the script from it, and the SSID with the needed 802.1X settings would be created. This would also serve as a way to "refresh" the configuration if the student configured the SSID incorrectly. We need to support XP, Vista, and Mac OS X. Has anyone done this before? Any suggestions on where to start? Nathan Nathan P. Hay Network Engineer Computer Services Cedarville University www.cedarville.edu <http://www.cedarville.edu/> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
