I have been investigating issues with our laptops whereby they would freeze and become generally unresponsive when changing area and thus changing they connected WAP. This was causing big problems for staff who teach in multiple rooms and regularly change between wired and wireless connections. We have a combination of HP ProCurve 420WW and HP
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Removing All Users Desktop using Group Policy
This is one of those really frustrating finds, which if only the title mentioned the right words, would have been done in minutes. Setting up a group policy for use with some on-screen tests that we wanted to perform. We wanted a custom desktop with only the icons that they required. Little did I know
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802.1x User Authentication with Mandatory Profiles
Just been working on 60 new Asus Eee netbooks that we have bought for student use in the college. Mainly, testing thoroughly that the wireless was going to work flawlessly. We got everything working for ourselves using Network Policy Server, HP Procurve 420 AP’s and PEAP. Only problem – when a student logs in, the
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