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Wireless settings over Group Policy

Hi
I have implimented an iEEE 802.11 wireless LAN.
I would like to test rolling this out over a 2003 AD group policy for a couple of laptop users. But am having difficulties applying to an OU.

Is it possible to apply the wireless policy to a OU or can I only roll out using the default domain policy? I would rather not do this incase it is misconfigured and drops all users from the wireless.

Any advice welcome
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Are you getting any errors or what exactly are the problems you are having? You could maybe try applying it to a group of users then it should apply to there machines when they relog on.

Also if you use the Group policy management console you could run a gpresult check to see which policies are being applied to the machines. Further more you could run the gpupdate /force on the computers themselves to force the policy updates out
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thanks i'll give it a go.

No errors..just no preferred wireless network pushed down. But you believe i can push down for a individual OU rather than the whole domain?

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Your correct that worked with the computer in the OU.
Do computer policies only work with computer objects and user policies with user policies?

Also i have a wireless SSID listed in the Default Domain policy but this is now missing as the new GP for OU has won? is there anyway of allowing both ?
Hey,

did some checks and it seems computer policy only applies to Computers in the OU. and users to user accounts in the OU which makes sense.

As for multiple SSIDs. I believe if you add both Wireless SSID's on the second group policy you have created then that should work. So you have SSID1 on the default domain policy but on the one you have created you would havve SSID1 and SSID2.

That should work from what I understand, unfortunately I don't have my AD test lab running since I just moved abroad so cant test and confirm.
That's more than enough info and all works as described.

thanks