We use a product "XpressConnect" made by http://www.cloudpathnetworks.com/ which automates this for a range of devices. I had gone down the route of creating a system in house which students could run which copied an XML file into windows Vista to setup the secure wireless network. It worked, but students who had windows XP or MAC were never happy. It was also becoming a full time job tracking all the new and unusual wireless clients that students were installing onto their machine, often without even realising they were to then program these to be disabled etc.
We've found XpressConnect has vastly reduced helpdesk calls, and those who do need further help it is almost always issues around incorrect wireless drivers or "wireless card switches" set to "off" etc. If you would like some further details drop me an email on p.j.meth...@hw.ac.uk or have a look at the system running at http://network-help.hw.ac.uk/xpressconnect (It can be deployed onto a webserver, cd, flash drive etc.) Many Thanks Peter Mr Peter Methven, Network Specialist University Information and Computing Services (UICS) Allen McTernan Building, Edinburgh Campus Tel: 0131 451 3516 For IT support queries or requests, please email ith...@hw.ac.uk <mailto:ith...@hw.ac.uk> or phone ext 4045, with full details of your query or request and your contact details. http://www.hw.ac.uk/uics <http://www.hw.ac.uk/uics> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Williams, Mr. Michael Sent: 09 March 2010 16:39 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup Hello, We are currently moving away from open wireless access to requiring our users to configure their wireless supplicant for WPA/WPA2. We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I know you can manually import and export the connection profile (.xml file), but I am looking for a version that the user can download from our website, something like a setup/exe file. Thank you Mike v/r Michael M. Williams Network Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Tarleton State University 201st St. Felix Str. Box T-0220 Stephenville, TX Tel: (254) 968-1850 Fax: (254) 968-9393 mmwilli...@tarleton.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
