July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
669 pages
16h 40m
English
book
Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Darril Gibson
Content preview from Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
12.6. Chapter Essentials
Configuring and troubleshooting wireless connectivity
Understand that wireless connection settings on the Windows 7 computer must match those on the wireless devices. Security is very important with wireless. Windows 7 supports WEP, WPA, and WPA2. WEP should be avoided. WPA2 is the strongest. WPA-Personal and WPA2-Personal use a pre-shared key. WPA-Enterprise and WPA2-Enterprise use an 802.1x server for authentication. WPA2-Enterprise with smart card authentication provides the best protection.
Configuring and troubleshooting remote access
Be aware that Windows 7 supports multiple tunneling protocols. When set to Automatic, it will try to connect in this order: IKEv2, SSTP, PPTP, and L2TP. IKEv2 is supported only with ...