Great idea thanks!

Michael Dickson
Network Analyst
Office of Information Technologies
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Voice 413.545.9639 

On Apr 24, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Ian McDonald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Posters and instructions in the welcome pack. Mini helpdesks at strategic 
> points during pre-sessional week etc..
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> --
> ian 
> 
> Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling.
> From: Michael Dickson
> Sent: ‎24/‎04/‎2014 18:14
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] educating users about getting onto .1X
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> How are people spreading the word to their user community that they need to 
> go to the "onboarding" SSID first to configure for the ".1X" SSID? 
> 
> A small but significant percentage of our users are not doing this 
> inuitively. They are connecting to the .1X SSID first, perhaps because it 
> contains the word SECURE in the SSID. Because most devices lack the basic 
> ingredients for EAP-TTLS they never successfully authenticate. At that point 
> they either give up and connect to our open SSID permanently or they go to 
> the Help Desk who (surpise!) tells them they need to run the configuration 
> utility by going first to the "onboarding" SSID.
> 
> I realize this may be more of a communications problem than a technical one 
> but I'd be interested to hear what folks are doing to steer their users to 
> "go to this SSID first to configure for that SSID".
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> Michael Dickson
> Network Analyst
> Office of Information Technologies
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> Voice 413.545.9639 
> 
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