Our company has two wireless signals, one "Public" and "Private". The public signal has a simple SSID and no security, so naturally, users jump on it first.
Management began to notice that laptops that were docked and connected to the LAN, were also connecting to the Public wireless for a variety of reasons, sometimes inappropriate. They came to us to ask what we could do about it.
We recommended utilizing the the LAN/WLAN switching feature built into all new HP laptops, and leveraging Altiris & HPCMS to enable this switch.
This simple BIOS setting automatically disables the internal wireless when the presence of a network cable, either through a docking station or directly is detected.
By utilizing the HP Client Manager quick start, and configuring a simple task under "Advanced BIOS settings", we were able to deploy this without having to alert the user or touch each box.
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