![]() You users will no longer be able to connect to any wireless networks and when they click on the network in they will receive the message “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network”. from the White List procedure leave the “Prevent connections to ad-hoc networks” and “Prevent connections to infrastructure networks”. Now if you want to totally deny you users from connecting to any network profile just skip step 6. How to disable your wireless networks access via Group Policy Note: Configuring a white list will not configure a wireless profile to connect to the allowed network, it simple allows the user to configure a profile for that particular SSID. Now you will ONLY be able to connect to the wireless network called “private_ab” and all other networks will be denied. Tick “Prevent connections to ad-hoc networks” and tick “Prevent connections to infrastructure networks” then click “OK” Infrastructure) and select "Allow” from the Permission type then click “OK” “private_ab”) then select the type of Network Type (e.g. Type in the name of the SSID you want to white list (e.g. Setting up a Wireless Network White List using Group Policy Now the user views all the wireless network the will no longer be able to connect the network that has been configured as Deny. Infrastructure) and select "Deny” from the Permission type then click “OK” “dlink”) then select the type of Network Type (e.g. Type in the name of the SSID you want to black list (e.g. Setting up a Wireless Network Black List using Group Policy Now click on the Network Permission Tab and click “Add…” Ensure that the “Use Windows WLAN AutoCOnfig service for clients” is ticked so that Windows does not allow third-party software to control the wireless network adapter (e.g. Now give the give the setting a Policy Name and Description. Note: You can only create one Windows Vista and later and one Windows XP wireless setting within each GPO. Click on “Action” in the menu and then click on “Create A New Wireless Network Policy for Windows Vista and Later Releases”. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies This is a computer based setting so edit a Group Policy Object (GPO) that is targeted to all the laptops in your network Then the process branches and describes how to setup a black list then white list in steps 6 & 7. Note: Steps 1 to 5 are common for setting up both black and white lists. How to Black List/White List Wireless Networks using Group Policy ![]() ![]() The instructions below are specific to Vista and Windows 7 as there were a whole heap of new group policy settings that were introduced back when Vista was released. Lastly I will then quickly show you how to totally disable your wireless adapter from being able to connect to any networks. This is very useful if you only want your users to connect to wireless network you know are safe to use. Then I will go through the way will to block all wireless networks except for one called “private_ab” using the White List method. This black list method is useful when you want to prevent users from connecting to networks such as “ Free Public WiFi” which is nothing more than a trap set by hacker to steal people’s passwords. In the tutorial below I am going to show you how to block your laptops from connecting to specific wireless networks with the example SSID of “dlink”. Maybe it is because they have an open WIFI network on the floor above that users keep connecting to so they can by pass the proxy server URL restrictions or they don’t want their users from accessing the internet from well known WIFI hot spots. I have seen an number of posts form IT Administrators on the Microsoft Group Policy forums asking how prevent their users from connecting to a wireless network.
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