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Configuring Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi profiles can be configured for all the managed Windows devices in your network in one-shot using Endpoint Central. You can now create, modify or delete Wi-Fi configurations seamlessly. The product supports Wi-Fi configurations only for computers running Windows Vista or later version.  You can choose to remove all the existing Wi-Fi profiles and apply newly created Wi-Fi profiles. You need to ensure that the Wi-Fi adapter is enabled on all the target computers for deploying a Wi-Fi profile. You can turn on the Wi-Fi adapter while creating a new Wi-Fi profile.

Multiple Profiles can be added in a single configuration, which includes options for creating, modifying and deleting Wi-Fi profiles. Profiles within a configuration will be applied as per the sequence it is specified. If you have chosen to delete all configurations first, then all the existing Wi-Fi profiles will be removed from the computer and then the second profile will be added.

Creating WiFi Profiles

You can create one or more Wi-Fi profiles for the target computer. You can choose to remove all the existing Wi-Fi profiles before deploying the newly created profiles. You will have to follow the steps mentioned below to create a Wi-Fi profile.  There are two ways to create a Wi-Fi profile, they are :

Creating a new profile:

You will have to provide the following details

      • Profile Name : Name for the Wi-Fi configuration
      • Security Type : No Authentication / WEP / WEPA2 Personal / WPA Personal / WPA2 Enterprise / WPA Enterprise / 802.1x
      • Encryption Type : Specify the encryption type as required
      • Security type 802.1x is considered to be more secure than WPA and WEPA2 Personal.
      • You can also choose to connect the  Wi-Fi that you have configured automatically
      • Establish connection even if the network is not broadcasting
      • Choose to overwrite if any existing profiles exists with the same name

Importing from an Existing Profile

You can choose to import an existing Wi-Fi profile and deploy the same to the target computers. Wi-Fi profile should be located and uploaded in the the product server. Endpoint Central currently supports Wi-Fi profiles only in xml format.

Modifying the WiFi Profiles

You can choose to modify the existing Wi-Fi profiles by creating a new profile with the required modifications. When a profile is created with a name which already exists on the target computer, then the previous profile will be modified, however the changes will apply only to the computers to which the configuration is applied. Modifying Wi-Fi profiles will not work, if the network adopter is disabled on the device.

Deleting WiFi Profiles

You can choose to delete one or all the Wi-Fi profiles that exists on the target computer. When Delete All profile is applied, all the existing Wi-Fi profiles applied to computers will be removed from the target computer and the newly added profiles will be applied. You can choose to delete a specific profile by specifying the name of the profile which needs to be deleted.

After performing the functions to configure a Wi-Fi profile, follow the steps below:

  • Click Save to save the above mentioned configurations and Save and New to save and add a new configuration.
  • Define the Target
  • Specify retry options if required and deploy the configuration.
  • You can also enable notifications to receive emails based on the specified frequency.
  • Click on the Deploy button to deploy the Wi-Fi configuration in all the targets.
  • To save the configuration as draft, click Save as

You have successfully configured Wi-Fi profiles for Windows machines.