Scheduling wifi to turn on evey few minutes? - Remediation script?

[titch]

We currently have a 1:1 scheme and use sensor for classroom management. Some of the little angels like to find online games and then turn their wifi off so the teacher cant see what they are doing on senso. They do need to be able to turn wifi off every now again so I don't want block the ability to do it but wondering if there's a way of scheduling the wifi to turn on every few minutes. I think this would be enough to deter them from doing it but I don't want it to impact performance of their devices really. Devices are all intune

 

Any thoughts on how this may be achieved?

[DavR]

Out of interest, what is the usage case for allowing the children to turn off the WiFi on the device?

 

I'd be more inclined to ensure that the wireless stays on, always, and then find another solution to the problem of occasionally needing to offline the device. I'm not sure about InTune, but we achieved this by either forcing a service on or off in Group Policy.

[titch]

Cheers Davr. The only reason to turn wifi off is for those odd times whens an AP becomes sticky of something just isn't working correctly. A quick off on of wifi generally does the trick.

[chazzy2501]

you could use the task scheduler, see if an event is logged (in the event log) when the wifi is turned off, then add a scheduled task triggered by this for a 3 minute delay and a shutdown when this occurs.

[DavR]

Cheers Davr. The only reason to turn wifi off is for those odd times whens an AP becomes sticky of something just isn't working correctly. A quick off on of wifi generally does the trick.

 

Ah, that makes sense. Shouldn't happen, but sometimes it does, I'm sure.

 

I wonder if you could script something that enables and disables the wifi adapter, or runs Windows troubleshooter on the network connection, for that situation. Both probably require admin rights though :/

[titch]

you could use the task scheduler, see if an event is logged (in the event log) when the wifi is turned off, then add a scheduled task triggered by this for a 3 minute delay and a shutdown when this occurs.

 

This is a good plan as it only affects those who are turning it off. Ive found the event for the trigger but cant get the wifi on via a script....

 

Gonna scratch my head for a bit