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Forcing Wi-Fi on
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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.

  • Luke Barone
Luke Barone 28 November 2024 • 3 min read
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Wi-Fi only works when logged in

If you have a Wi-Fi network, and it doesn’t seem to connect unless you login, you need to change the profile. Symptom: Domain joined computer would not come online unless I logged in as a local user account (domain wasn’t available). Would work fine afterwards, but would disconnect as soon as I logged off. Resolution: The Wi-Fi network was set to only be a user profile. To change it: Open the Command Prompt or Powershell as an Administrator

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Luke Barone 6 December 2023 • 1 min read
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