I just wanted to ask the question to see what all of you are doing at your institutions to handle users activating new devices. New iOS devices for example have to reach out to iCloud to validate themselves and make sure they're not stolen. Android now with version 5 is very similar, having to reach out to the mothership and join to a Google account.
Are any of you doing an "SSID-Activate" WLAN, or requiring clients to bring it by your respective Help Desks for activation? Right now, we are requiring anyone that wants a device activated to have our Desktop techs touch it and give them pointers to secure it. However, we've lost some budget, and some employees, and they can't keep a guy in the office to handle that influx of people anymore. And I don't want the headache of a wide open WLAN everywhere, and none of the devices will allow the webauth transaction to happen before the device is activated. Thanks, --Britton Britton Anderson <[email protected]> | Senior Network Communications Specialist | University of Alaska <http://www.alaska.edu/oit> | 907.450.8250 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
