This is what we do. While not authenticated to wireless you can still get to a few places - Microsoft, apple, Google search, antivirus vendors.
-- Hunter Fuller OIT Sent from my phone. On Jan 8, 2015 5:11 PM, "Frank Sweetser" <[email protected]> wrote: > We already have an unencrypted ssid for students to get to our onboarding > system (Cloudpath). Our plan for this summer is to poke enough firewall > holes for students to also run through the device activation process. If we > were to try to impose any kind of device security policies, we would do it > in the onboarding process. > > On January 8, 2015 5:54:01 PM EST, Britton Anderson < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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/. >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > ********** 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/.
