For what it's worth, we did write our own as well in the early stages of what turned out to be a pretty painless 802.1x rollout. We did find that despite having a "mostly effective" script to pass out, the Xpress Connect service (ID Engines at that time) was more complete, and addressed the "moving target" aspects of supporting a wide variety of Macs and various Windows flavors than we could without spending significantly more time on ongoing refinements.
Personally, I'm still of partial mind (hold your snickers)that teaching people how to do the handful of steps required to configure a supplicant has a lot of merit, as opposed to automating it. The one big gain- many wireless utilities are more robust than the weenie version that is native to Windows. If people understand the handful of basic parameters needed, they can populate their preferred utility/supplicant and off they go. But for automating the process, you are locked into the Windows native client/supplicant. But then again, I'm not on the helpdesk, either:) -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Julian Y. Koh Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:54 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] configuration script -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 15:19 -0700 6/2/2009, Entwistle, Bruce wrote: >We are looking at implementing WPA security for our wireless network and >need a simple method of configuring the client computers. At NU, our technical support department wrote one. You can get it from <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/oncampus/wireless/> and <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/oncampus/wireless/wireless-connections/> if you want to look at it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 9.9.1.287 wj8DBQFKJmRjDlQHnMkeAWMRAhmIAJ9w9ZhUi/jUgeRySRfBkcaQeEz7RQCgkfQV ZP6ef/q7zhVXSJwqWDBHQXQ= =KgIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Julian Y. Koh <mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu> Network Engineer <phone:847-467-5780> Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** 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/.
