Securing the Wireless configuration

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We have a bunch of laptops that students can access. Unfortunately windows
setup wireless in such a way that if one user sets up a wireless network,
another user can delete it. Also, one user can turn off the wireless card
and it stays off until someone else turns it on (w/o wireless noone else can
logon though).

So, there are a few things I'd like to do but have been unable to track
down. First I'd like to secure the wireless settings so that users cannot
make any changes to the setup. I don't even want them to be able to add a
network and definitely not delete one.

Also, we have Dell D505s. On all Dells, you can hit Fn F2 at any point once
the OS loads to turn of the wireless card. Even with noone logged in. I
also have not found a way to disable this key combination.

Any help with either of these would be fantastic.
 
More info, I found in another post someone recommended the following:
Use Group Policy restrictions to restrict a users access to various
networking tasks as found under user configuration/administrative
templates/network/network
connections. You can test those Group Policy restrictions on a local
computer by editing local Group Policy with gpedit.msc

This didn't work. Apparently changing wireless configurations is not a part
of these settings. And despite securing it so that users cannot disable a
LAN connection (maybe WLAN is not included?), Fn F2 still disables the
adapter.
 
Are the users also local administrators?? If they are then there is not
really anything you can do about it other than look for ways to allow them
to function without being a local administrator that may be easier than one
thinks. I can't speak of why Dell works that way but you may want to contact
them about the F2 issue.

Steve
 
No, they are users. They cannot change LAN settings (TCP/IP or other adapter
settings that users normally cannot change. But Microsoft has designed it in
a way that ANYONE can add and remove SSIDs. And these SSIDs affect everyone
who uses the computer. I figure that has got to be a way to restrict that
for normal users.

I did find the Fn-F2 setting in the BIOS.
 
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