Import wireless settings to VM

[jmak]

I'm putting together a new "golden image" using hyper-v and I want to include the wireless settings. I tried exporting the settings from a working machine and then importing to the VM. Obviously the VM doesn't have a wireless adapter, so the import fails. Are there any other options, or is it time to move on from WPA2?

[themightymrp]

Have you done the export/import using the netsh command options? My desktop doesn't have WiFi but the netsh wlan command seems to be valid. Not sure if it will actually do an import though? I can post the command needed if you want

[jmak]

Have you done the export/import using the netsh command options? My desktop doesn't have WiFi but the netsh wlan command seems to be valid. Not sure if it will actually do an import though? I can post the command needed if you want

Yep. That's what I did, but got an error message when I tried to import it.

 

(From memory: "Wlan auto config service not running" which makes sense as there's no wireless adaptor or driver installed on the VM)

[themightymrp]

How about having it as a startup script in a group policy that will run just once the first time the machine joins the domain? Presumably you will have to deploy the image using a wired connection

[jmak]

How about having it as a startup script in a group policy that will run just once the first time the machine joins the domain? Presumably you will have to deploy the image using a wired connection

Just reading about that now 😃

 

Yes, I'm deploying across a wired network.

[themightymrp]

I imagine it will be something along the lines of:

 

if not exist c:\wifi.txt goto wifi
exit

:wifi
netsh wlan add profile filename="path to file" user=all
echo >c:\wifi.txt
exit