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Provides a space for you to type the policy name. Type a unique name of up to 255 characters that will help you quickly identify the policy.


Provides a space for you to type the policy description. Type a unique description of up to 255 characters that will help you quickly identify the purpose of this policy (for example, to what wireless network the policy applies, the type of wireless networks that are available for connection attempts, and whether Wired Equivalent Privacy is enabled and IEEE 802.1X authentication is used).


Provides a space for you to type how often, in minutes, Active Directory is polled for changes to this policy.  This is only applicable if you are configuring policy for a computer that is an Active Directory domain member.


Lists the types of wireless networks that are available for connection attempts by clients.


Specifies whether to allow clients to use Windows to configure their wireless network connection settings. If you plan to use non-Microsoft wireless networking software, clear this check box.


Specifies whether clients can attempt to connect to any available wireless networks that are within range.


Lists the wireless networks to which clients can attempt to connect.


Click to add a new wireless network to this list.


Click the edit the properties of the selected wireless network.


Removes the selected wireless network from this list.


Raises the position of the selected wireless network in this list.


Lowers the position of the selected wireless network in this list.


Provides a space for you to type a name for this wireless network. Type a unique name of up to 255 characters that will help you quickly identify this network. Under the 802.11 standard for wireless networks, the network name is also known as a Service Set Identifier.


Provides a space for you to type a description for this wireless network. Type a unique description of up to 255 characters that will help you quickly identify this network. For example, you can specify whether it is an access point (ad hoc) or a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network, whether Wired Equivalent Privacy is enabled, and whether IEEE 802.1X authentication is used.


Provides options that allow you to specify a network key for this wireless network.

Help is available for each item in this group. Click [image] at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item you want information about.


Specifies whether Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is enabled for this wireless network. If this check box is selected, a network key is used to encrypt your data while it is transmitted over the network.

WEP provides data confidentiality by encrypting the data that is sent between wireless clients and wireless access points.


Specifies whether a network key is used to authenticate to this wireless network. Under the 802.11 standard for wireless networks, when a network key is used for authentication, the network is operating in shared key authentication mode. If a network key is not used for authentication, the network is operating in open system mode.


Specifies whether a network key is automatically provided for this wireless network (for example, if you are using 802.1X for dynamic key distribution).


Specifies whether this preferred wireless network is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network. If this check box is cleared, this network is an access point (infrastructure) network.


Specifies whether IEEE 802.1X authentication is enabled for wireless network connections. If you select this check box, credentials, such as smart cards or other certificates, and passwords are used for authentication.

802.1X is an IEEE standard that enhances security and deployment by providing support for centralized user identification, authentication, dynamic key management, and accounting.


Provides options that allow you to specify the transmission behavior of the EAPOL-Start message.


Provides a space for you to type a value to specify the maximum number of successive EAPOL-Start messages that will be sent out when there are no responses to the initial EAPOL-Start messages. After the Max Start limit has been reached, the supplicant (client) will discontinue sending EAPOL-Start messages.


Provides a space for you to type a value to specify, in seconds, the interval between the retransmission of EAPOL-Start messages when there has been no response to the previous EAPOL-Start message.


Provides a space for you to type a value to specify, in seconds, the period for which the supplicant (client) will not perform any 802.1X authentication activity after it has received an authentication failure indication from the authenticator.


Provides a space for you to type a value to specify, in seconds, the interval for which the supplicant (client) will wait before retransmitting any non-respondent 802.1X requests, once end-to-end 802.1X authentication has been initiated.


Lists the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) security types that you can use to authenticate wireless network clients. The support that IEEE 802.1X provides for EAP security types allows you to use authentication methods such as smart cards and other certificates.


Lists the certificate types that you can use for certificate-based authentication of wireless network clients.


Specifies whether to verify that the computer certificates that the remote access server presents to client computers have not expired and are still valid. In the EAP-TLS certificate authentication process, client computers present their user certificates to the remote access server, and the remote access server presents its computer certificates to the client computers, providing mutual authentication.


Specifies whether client computers attempt authentication to the wireless network as a guest when user or computer information is not available.


Specifies whether client computers attempt authentication to the wireless network when a user is not logged on.


Click to configure the authentication type selected in EAP type.


Provides options that allow you to specify how computer authentication works with user authentication. If you select Computer only, authentication is always performed using the computer credentials. User authentication is never performed. If you select With user re-authentication (recommended), when users are not logged on to the computer, authentication is performed using the computer credentials. After a user logs on to the computer, authentication is performed using the user credentials. When a user logs off of the computer, authentication is performed with the computer credentials. If you select With user authentication, when users are not logged on to the computer, authentication is performed using the computer credentials. After a user logs on to the computer, authentication is maintained using the computer credentials. If a user travels to a new wireless access point, authentication is performed using the user credentials.


Identifies the software that generated the event.  Events displayed in the Wireless Monitor are generated either by the Wireless Configuration service or EAP over LAN (EAPOL).


Displays the type of event. The event type is the classification of the event, such as Error, Warning, Information, or Packet.


Displays the time at which the event was logged.


Displays the name of the wireless network for which the event was generated. Under the 802.11 standard for wireless networks, the network name is also known as a service set identifier (SSID).


Displays the media access control (MAC) address of the local network adapter.


Displays the media access control (MAC) address of the destination network interface.


Displays summary information about the event.


Displays detailed information about the event.


Displays information about the previous event in the log.


Displays information about the next event in the log.


 Copies the details of the event to the Clipboard.