Migrate Your Wireless Settings
Here is a handy way to export your wireless LAN settings if you failed to save them off or want to transfer them to another machine. You can also use this as a method of exporting your corporate wireless LAN settings which tend to be more involved than your typical WPA setup. You can also use this to deploy using SMS or other delivery methods.
Step 1.) Launch a command prompt as an admin
Step 2.) Using the netsh command prompt list your wireless LAN profiles using the following command
“netsh wlan show profiles”
Step 3.) Note the Wireless LAN profile name you are wanting to export (ex. Linksys)
Step 4.) Run the following command to export your profile
“Netsh wlan export profile name=”[ProfileName]” Folder=”[Folder Path]”
Pretty easy, right?
To import on the new/other machine is just as easy simply use and admin command prompt and run the “netsh wlan add profile filename=”[filename.xml]” command.
Tags: admin, command, Computer, delivery_methods, deploy, export_profile, folder_path, lan_settings, Mobile, netsh_command, using_sms, Wi-Fi, Windows, windows vista, wireless_lan, wlan, wpa
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Teixeira, on 20 Jun 2008 at 6:59 am #
I think that only works in win2008 server and vista. no luck with windows xp
brgds
Milaf on 27 Jul 2009 at 5:17 am #
When I try to import the profile It showing this error
ERROR: function WLanSetProfile returns 5023. The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
Is there a solution to this? Any help would be appreciated.
Command line executed > netsh add profile filename=”wlan.xml”
Thanks in advance.
curvy on 10 Nov 2009 at 2:06 pm #
Great, but this doesn’t apply to Windows XP.