Disabling WIFI via GPO ?

[Stephane Grobety]

Is it possible to disable all WLAN via a group policy ?

I have users that fails to disable their WIFI access when they connect
their laptop to my internal network. And since the office next door has
an open access point, they get simultaneous connection to both network.

Since I don't have (and don't want) local wifi, I'd like to be able to
disable it when the user connects internally while automatically
reenable it when he his outside my network (similar to the XP SP2
firewall).

And yes: I've talked to the people in the office next door: not only
did they say they didn't care about the open access point, they where
kind enough to tell my boss that we where free to use it "should we
need it".

Thanks,
Stephane

[Mark Heitbrink [MVP]]

Hi,

Post by Stephane Grobety
Is it possible to disable all WLAN via a group policy ?

Not an effective one, because you have to deactivate the driver
and that will be a kind of a Sisyphean task, because you need
different registry entries for each NIC ...

"Sanctuary Device Control" should be a a better solution,
because you can handle a whitelist of allowed HW devices.
http://www.securewave.com/sanctuary_DC.jsp

HTH
Mark