Support OSD over Wireless
As more and more devices are shipping without wired network adapters, and more business areas are going "wireless only," the traditional ability to reimage a device in place is getting scarce. This is especially true in primary and secondary education institutions.
Please provide support for adding Wireless drivers to WinPE, and the ability to provision wireless network profiles for the WinPE phase of the task sequence to enable imaging over wireless network connections.
Nash Pherson (MVP)
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Updated by bobmn for sangeev/OSD
9 comments
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Herman van Drie
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I already achieved this item with 802.1x auth support:
https://twitter.com/hvandrie/status/875303380977164288
Uses Network Access account for EAP-MSCHAPv2 authentication on the wireless connection.
Whenever I can I'll publish the required coding on GitHub.
Requirements:
- WinRE media
- WiFi drivers
- C# application
- Network Access account configured in ConfigMgr that allows access to wireless network
Allows deployments over 802.1x Enteprise wireless networks using "Access content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task sequence" option in deployment. -
Anders Jensen
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+1
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Nico Grobbelaar
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Need this!
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Anonymous
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We are looking at deploying the surface pro which has no wired network having this ability would be a big step forward
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Mike Dickson
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Why is this still not an option?
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Carsten
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I did Wifi in a WinPE 3.1 boot image a few years back. Not a Microsoft supported way, but it worked.
I believe that I followed the guide on the following URL.
https://pcloadletter.co.uk/2011/12/03/windows-pe-builder-script-for-waik-including-wifi-support/
Might work with newer WinPE. -
Jason Kuhn
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I have over 30,000 Windows devices on my network that do not even have a wired network adapter. Wireless imaging is an absolute necessity for us
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Ryan Arnold commented
Great idea
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Terrence Miller
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I concur. I'd absolutely use this feature.