Lesson 2

Securing a Wireless Network

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Controlling Wireless Access Using Group Policies

Windows Server 2003 provides security capabilities for wireless networking in the form

of group policies that you can use to restrict users’ wireless access to the network. In

the Group Policy Object Editor console, you can create a policy in the Computer

Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11)

Policies subheading that enables you to specify whether wireless-equipped comput-

ers can connect to ad hoc networks only, infrastructure networks only, or both (see

Figure 13-7).

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Figure 13-7

The New Wireless Network Policy Properties dialog box

In the Preferred Networks tab, you can specify the networks to which users can con-

nect and set properties for the IEEE 802.1X security protocol, such as which authenti-

cation protocol to use (see Figure 13-8). Using these group policy settings, you can

configure the wireless networking properties for all the computers on your WLAN.