Force wireless to connect on startup (Domain Environment)

[thecomputerguy]

I do work for a dental office and we are trying to transition all of the desktop + LCD's to All In One's because it just suits what they are trying to accomplish perfectly. AIO mounted to a medical dental arm mounted to a wall.

I have a domain setup with folder redirection and I told her it would be nice if we could get all of the AIO's to connect wirelessly (as long as it was reliable), to eliminate yet another cable.

I'm having an issue with our first trial AIO desktop where I will get an error saying it wasn't able to contact the server, and the desktop has no icons, the documents, pictures etc. are all missing because of folder redirection.

Is there a way I can force the wireless to connect immediately upon bootup so it is able to properly authenticate with the server?

The wireless is an Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 2x2 AC + Bluetooth 4.0 with updated drivers, that comes with the Intel ProSet software.

I've experienced the same issue whether it is with the ProSet software or the Windows Wireless Software (Windows 7)

The way I see it I have a couple options.

Figure this out.
Replace router (they are using a cheap home grade linksys E2500 or something, not mine)
Bring back the Ethernet cable.
Disable Folder Redirection for all AIO's.

Any ideas?

 

[citizensmith]

Googled this - from here http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2047-enable-wireless-connection-pre-logon-on-domain

1.
Set up a wireless profile.

2.
Check your WLAN profile name.
In a command prompt, get the name of your profile by running netsh wlan show profile
Wlan_cmd_big
3.
Create a regisrty entry
run regedit
Find the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key.
Add a string value to the above mentioned key. Call it anything (WLAN prelogon), but its value should be
%comspec% /c netsh wlan connect name="<profile name>"
Of course, replace <profile name> with your profile name that you previously created.

4.
Add to GPO
If you have a lot of computers to configure for this, add it to Group Policy.
Add it to Computer Config > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry. (see attachment)
Wlan_prelog2_big
5.
Update Group Policy
run gpupdate /force /boot on all computers that you want updated. This will create the registry entry and reboot.

and you might need this to-

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...wireless-before-login?forum=w7itpronetworking

Or posibly this http://superuser.com/questions/5042...n-wi-fi-network-if-ethernet-connection-is-act

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I've experienced the same issue whether it is with the ProSet software

Intels ProSet software has an option to create a wireless profile and have it load, and connect...before the user logon comes up.

However...since you have offline folders, and it's a dentist office so I recon they run some "heavy" software...I'd want a copper gigabit LAN connection over any wireless.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Thank you for both of your suggestions, there is gigabit LAN available, we are just testing the wireless.