We recently deployed 31 brand spakin' new Dell Latitude E5500 laptops to a school here in town. One of the things I noticed in the BIOS settings was the option to Wake on WLAN instead of the usual Wake on LAN. Intel refers to this WoWLAN. But I can't for the life of me get it to work. If anybody searching the web for it and stumbles upon this article (sorry that I'm not offering a solution this time), please come back and post a solution in the comments if you find one.
We would like to be able to do some offline management of these laptops, and wake them up to do so in the cart on the weekend.
We have it set in the BIOS, and under the power management options in Device Manager. What I guess I can't get my head around is how a magic packet reaches a wireless card, especially one with a secured profile, while the system is off. The wireless card is a BCM4310 based Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card.
Any ideas? Is this Intel only?
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Windows Search 4.0
Why does Microsoft like to sneak products into patches?
A recent example of this would be the inclusion of Windows Search 4.0 which was installed if you approved an update patch. The patch was just supposed to update it if it was installed. Not install the full version for everybody.
Personally, I'm a fan of Windows Search. However it seems to *really* slow down machines if they're more than a year old. It landed on a couple of our managed networks and the users really started to complain. At first I thought the complaints would die down once the indexing process completed. However it's been a week and a half and the complaints keep coming.
This is another one of those times that I absolutely LOVE using Kaseya. With just a few clicks, I created a script that tests for the existence of the uninstall file (which is only there if the product is installed), and then runs it in silent mode. I tested it on a machine that I was logged into remotely to make sure the user didn't see anything. Everything worked like a charm.
The command in case anybody needs it is:
Or for you Kaseya Script people:
This just ran in the background. I watched as the search taskbar disappeared followed by the tray icon. I then checked the Add/Remove programs list to make sure that it was indeed gone.
A recent example of this would be the inclusion of Windows Search 4.0 which was installed if you approved an update patch. The patch was just supposed to update it if it was installed. Not install the full version for everybody.
Personally, I'm a fan of Windows Search. However it seems to *really* slow down machines if they're more than a year old. It landed on a couple of our managed networks and the users really started to complain. At first I thought the complaints would die down once the indexing process completed. However it's been a week and a half and the complaints keep coming.
This is another one of those times that I absolutely LOVE using Kaseya. With just a few clicks, I created a script that tests for the existence of the uninstall file (which is only there if the product is installed), and then runs it in silent mode. I tested it on a machine that I was logged into remotely to make sure the user didn't see anything. Everything worked like a charm.
The command in case anybody needs it is:
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /quiet /norestart
Or for you Kaseya Script people:
Script Name: Remove Windows Search 4.0
Script Description:
IF Test File
Parameter 1 : C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
Exists :
THEN
Execute File
Parameter 1 : C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
Parameter 2 : /quiet /norestart
Parameter 3 : 3
OS Type : 0
ELSE
This just ran in the background. I watched as the search taskbar disappeared followed by the tray icon. I then checked the Add/Remove programs list to make sure that it was indeed gone.
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