I am trying to adjust the Wireless Network Properties for the domain network I am trying to connect to. I need to check the box that says "Connect even if the network is not broadcasting .. SSID" The problem is this is greyed out and at the top is says "These settings are managed by your system adminstrator". I am the system admin on the pc local and one of them on the domain. This laptop is on the domain as well. I ran into this problem somewhat on Vista and found a way to fix it but it doesn't seem to work here. This seems to only be a problem with Win7 machines only. I don't understand why, if you are the admin of the machine and domain admin, you still can't manage everything on the pc. This also only seems to happen after joining a machine to the domain. A manual addition of the RADIUS in Networking and Sharing is recognized right up until the machine is actually joined. Magically, the network security also changes from WPA2 Enterprise to WPA Enterprise. We don't have WPA Enterprise configured on our domain! Can't change it it's greyed-out, obviously.... Our Dell Latitude E6500's, with Centrino 2 CPU's and Intel WiFi, work and sysprep fine with 7. I'm typing this from just such a unit now, on wireless. On the Dell Latitude D830's, with either: Core 2 Duo CPU/Dell Broadcom Wifi, or Intel Centrino/Intel WiFi There is no such luck. The only working network is from the wired Broadcom NIC. Obviously, this isn't very practical for a facility that has at least 600 associates using the wireless on a five day a week/eight hour work day basis. Thoughts anyone?? Any help would be great. Thanks.

I don't understand why, if you are the admin of the machine and domain admin, you still can't manage everything on the pc. Me neither. What gives, MS?Click Start, click Run..., type "cmd" and hit enter, type "work /now"

R.Callahan, I saw this same thing at one of my customers. It turned out that we found a policy for their XP machines that was getting applied to the new PCs inadvertently. It was running RSOP and going through the resulting data that finally did it for us.If you need extra help, you can reach us at: InitialAssist@cbfive.com See my blogs at http://www.cbfive.com/blog - Jared Crandall

Okay, interesting.....When I run a gpresult report to view my RSOP data, and then open it in Notepad, I get a whole long 28 page shpeel of what security groups I'm a member of, account policies, security policies, default domain policy, etc., etc. This is on the Dell E6500 that has working domain wireless.On either of the Intel/Dell Wifi Dell D830's I run the gpresult report (which remember, these models get no wireless), and I get the following for text output:"INFO: The user "domain\myusername" does not have RSOP data."Anybody got any ideas about this? I can get wired network and my Exchange email, network drives, etc., on the D830's--I can even get radius wireless from our south office complex, which runs WPA2-Enterprise AP's with identical settings to the AP's at our North office complex, other than the SSID. North-side of things (which has our most associates), I am void of wifi connectivity. Any thoughts at this point would be greatly appreciated, as my brain is getting fried on all of this. :) I'll keep looking at the server side RSOP and see what I can dig up.[Edit addition @ 9:48am] I run "gpupdate" to push policy on the offending laptops, and I get the below output:Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\system32>gpupdateUpdating Policy... User policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not determine if the user and computer accounts are in the same forest. Ensure the user domain name matches the name of a trusted domain that resides in the same forest as the computer account. Computer Policy update has completed successfully. To diagnose the failure, review the event log or run GPRESULT /H GPReport.html from the command line to access information about Group Policy results. C:\Windows\system32>GPRESULT /H GPReport.htmlINFO: The user "domain\myusername" does not have RSOP data Back to deciphering reports I go... :)