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Windows Vista Tip - Migrate Your Wireless Settings

Here is a handy way to export your wireless LAN settings if you failed to save them off or want to transfer them to another machine. You can also use this as a method of exporting your corporate wireless LAN settings which tend to be more involved than your typical WPA setup.  You can also use this to deploy using SMS or other delivery methods.

 

Step 1.) Launch a command prompt as an admin

Step 2.) Using the netsh command prompt list your wireless LAN profiles using the following command

"netsh wlan show profiles"

Step 3.) Note the Wireless LAN profile name you are wanting to export (ex. Linksys)

Step 4.) Run the following command to export your profile

"Netsh wlan export profile name="[ProfileName]" Folder="[Folder Path]"

 

Pretty easy, right?

 

To import on the new/other machine is just as easy simply use and admin command prompt and run the "netsh wlan add profile filename="[filename.xml]" command.

Published May 29 2007, 07:14 PM by Josh Phillips
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Rudolf Reiner said:

Hi. Thank you for this tip. Sounds pretty easy to implement on the single computer. Could you please give some advise on how to do this for multiple computers? We are migrating to Vista and at the same time we'll change the WI-FI point settings. But not all of our users are available directly. Some will be out of the office when we'll start implementing changes. Is there a way to roll this out to them when they return? I don't want them to suffer from this move. I found <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905085.aspx">this list</a> with the hopefully the full list of commands available in the network shell. But it doesn't seem to contain anything that will allow to do that for multiple computers. The problem is that we need to exclude several users from being affected by the change. I plan to do that through testing for the group membership with the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=07c2f6d7-815e-4fa0-9043-4e4635ccd417&displaylang=en">ifmember tool</a>. Is there any way to make that simplier? I see this is a pretty old tool. I found <a href=http://migrate2vista.com>this site</a>. It discusses another tool that is aimed for migration. I was thinking to implement it in a such manner like it is done <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/03/ScriptingGuy/default.aspx">here</a> and then using the IADsGroup.IsMember method somehow. But now when I know it's possible to do that with tools I am thinking about using them. What would you recommend?

June 13, 2007 9:06 AM

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