Introduced since SCCM 2012 R2, SCCM Wifi profiles are used to send Wifi configuration to clients. It can be useful if your company is not using certificates or any automated authentication methods. Smaller organisation that uses a simple WPA2 setup can use SCCM Wifi profiles to send Wifi SSID and password so that the computers connects automatically to that network.
You can also use Wifi profile to manage mobile devices with Intune but we won’t cover this scenario in this post.
The major drawback of the SCCM Wifi Profile is that it’s impossible to enter the Wifi password using the console UI. We will show you how to deploy Wifi profiles on a Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 computer, including the Wifi password using an Xml file.
How to deploy SCCM Wifi Profiles with password to Windows 10 devices
Since it’s not possible to enter a password in the SCCM console, we’ll create an XML file and use it to create a SCCM Wifi profile based on this file.
The first step is to connect on a Windows 10 computer and connect to the desired Wifi network manually. You can disconnect once done, it’s only important to connect to the network at least once.
- Open a PowerShell window and enter the following command to list all Wifi profiles on the computer :
- Enter the following command to create the Xml file : (replace the name of your network and location you want the file to be created)
- Using any text editor, you can see the Wifi information including the WPA2 pre-shared key
- We are now ready to create the Wifi profile in the SCCM console using this Xml file
- Open the SCCM console
- Go to Assets and Compliance / Compliance Settings / Company Resource Access / Wi-Fi Profiles
- Right-click Wi-Fi Profiles and select Create Wi-Fi Profile
- On the General pane, enter a Name and Description
- Check the box Import an existing Wi-Fi profile item from a file, click Next
- On the Import Wi-fi Profile pane, click Add
- Browse to the location where you saved the Xml file created in the first step of this post, click Open
- Validate the file, click Next
- On the Supported Platforms pane, select All Windows 8.1 (64-bits), All Windows 8.1 (32-bits), All Windows 10 (64-bits) and All Windows 10 (32-bits), click Next
- On the Summary pane, review your settings and click Next
- Wait for the wizard to complete and click Close
Deploy the Wifi Profiles
You are now ready to deploy the profile to your devices
- Open the SCCM console
- Go to Assets and Compliance / Compliance Settings / Company Resource Access / Wi-Fi Profiles
- Right-click the profile and select Deploy
- Click Browse and select your collection
- Specify the evaluation schedule, click Ok
Monitor the deployment
Like every deployments, you can monitor the status in the SCCM Console under Monitoring / Deployments
You may notice that the Wifi Profiles deployments are treated as they were Configuration Items.
Once successfully deployed, the computers receiving the Wifi Profile will automatically connect to the specified network.
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