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Forcing Wi-Fi on

Summary: In the K12 Education world, laptops are becoming more and more prevelant, and so is Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, limited users are allowed to forget Wi-Fi networks and turn on Airplane Mode and disable Wi-Fi altogether, ruining the experience for the next user. Technical Details and Assumptions We are assuming there is no MDM solution in place (i.e. Jamf, Intune, etc) We assume you’re running on-prem Active Directory (for the Group Policy portions) We assume you are not using certificate-based authentication (and therefore, not simply deploying Wi-Fi Profiles with GPO) We assume the profile has been loaded somehow already Requirements You have a method of deploying the Wi-Fi key (i.

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Set default printer (without creating a printer) with Group Policy

I got disappointed after searching high and low on Google for how to use Group Policy in order to set a default printer. Almost every article I read assumed the reader had a print server available, or would deploy a local printer connection right from the Group Policy Management Console. Finally, I found the solution! In the environment that I support, we have “Printer Packages” by the manufacturer. These packages are essentially printer queues with default settings already entered for the Printer Preferences - you know, the items you CAN NOT change easily from a remote location, to many systems?

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Files Preferences FAQ

Group Policy Files CSE allows SysAdmins to ensure file(s) exist on clients when logging into the domain. If you’ve never used it before, you can beat your head against the wall, so learn from my mistakes / tributions with setting this up.