I will demonstrate how to mass deploy WLAN profiles with simple .bat scripts and wlan.exe utility from Microsoft. Active Directory GPO prior to 2003 native mode doesn’t give you the option to mass deploy WLAN profiles. Also if you don’t run AD infrastructure at all and want a simple script you will find this useful.
\nScript takes into account that some clients don’t have Wireless card and will skip them.
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Deployment environment:<\/strong> Step 1<\/strong> Step 2<\/strong> And thats the script that will execute (it is called as WLAN_exec.bat from previous script)<\/p>\n Download wlan.exe utility<\/a><\/p>\n Hope it helps, cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I will demonstrate how to mass deploy WLAN profiles with simple .bat scripts and wlan.exe utility from Microsoft. Active Directory GPO prior to 2003 native mode doesn’t give you the option to mass deploy WLAN profiles. Also if you don’t … Continue reading
\nAD Infrastructure – 2000 Native mode
\nClients: Windows XP SP3 (wlan.exe requires SP3, later versions such as Vista and 7 come with utility)<\/p>\n
\nYou first need to configure a profile on one of the clients and than export it using wlan.exe utility. To export profile you need to run wlan.exe utility in command prompt.
\nFind GUID of your wireless adapter; issue this command: wlan.exe ei<\/strong>
\nInterface 0:
\n GUID: 00045340-cf09-4c5b-8f27-1bc000000a9c
\n Broadcom 4321AG 802.11a\/b\/g\/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter
\n State: “connected”<\/em>
\nFind if the profile exists on this interface; issue this command: wlan gpl 00045340-cf09-4c5b-8f27-1bc000000a9c<\/strong> Please make sure “template” profile you configured is there.
\nNow we export it as a .xml file: wlan.exe gp 00045340-cf09-4c5b-8f27-1bc000000a9c “dd-wrt” C:\\templt.xml<\/strong>
\nFinally, open exported file and remove first and last line:
\nThe return profile xml is:
\nCommand “gp” completed successfully.<\/em> <\/p>\n
\nNow we will import this profile. Using 2 .bat scripts. First one checks if the client has wireless card and if it is true we copy required files to %temp% folder and executes 2nd script, which imports WLAN profile you created in step 1.
\nNote: wlan.exe utility doesn’t work properly if it runs from the network share, thus we have to copy to %temp% and call it from there.<\/p>\n\r\n@echo off\r\nrem Date: March 17, 2011\r\nrem Author: Naz Snidanko\r\nrem Description: checks for wifi adapt, copies files to temp dir and runs deployment script and cleans\r\nsetlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS\r\nipconfig | findstr \"Wireless\"\r\nif %errorlevel% EQU 0 goto wifi\r\nif %errorlevel% EQU 1 goto nowifi\r\n:wifi\r\nmkdir %temp%\\WLAN\r\ncopy \"\\\\share.com\\NETLOGON\\WLAN\\*.*\" %temp%\\WLAN\r\ncall %temp%\\WLAN\\WLAN_exec.bat\r\nrmdir \/S \/Q %temp%\\WLAN\r\n:nowifi<\/pre>\n
@echo off\r\nrem Date: March 16, 2011\r\nrem Author: Naz Snidanko\r\nrem Description: Manual deployment of wireless profiles on Windows XP SP3\r\nsetlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS\r\nset wifiprofile=\"profile.xml\"\r\nFor \/F \"skip=2 tokens=1,2\" %%A IN ('%temp%\\WLAN\\wlan.exe ei') Do If \"%%A\"==\"GUID:\" set Interface=%%B\r\n%temp%\\WLAN\\wlan.exe sp %Interface% %wifiprofile%<\/pre>\n