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Can anyone tell me if there is a way to disable Wi-Fi, but keep bluetooth? I don't want anyone to be able to going the surface to a Wi-Fi network.
I've gone into device manager and disabled the adapter, but this takes out the bluetooth devices as well so the keyboard/mouse don't work anymore.
Is there anyway to only allow admins enable the Wi-Fi in the system tray?
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Hello Bobo_965
It may be best if you were to get into the tech-net forums or to commercial support for further assistance. With a domain connection there should be further options available, either through the domain itself or through group policy management settings.
You may locate the tech-net forums here, and the Microsoft commercial support contact information here.
Thank you~
Mason L.
Microsoft Surface Technical Support
Hello BoBo_965,
In order to disable Wi-Fi connection without effecting your Bluetooth settings, please go to your Start Menu, then select Settings and go to Network and Internet. If you go to the Wi-Fi section, you should have a toggle/switch that will disable Wi-Fi only.
Thank you~
Mason L.
Microsoft Surface Technical Support
Yeah i'm aware of that option, but this surface will part of a domain and I don't want anyone to just be able to simply switch the Wi-Fi back on using the same toggle switch. As far as I know they don't even need admin credentials to do so.
Hello BoBo_965,
In order to disable Wi-Fi connection without effecting your Bluetooth settings, please go to your Start Menu, then select Settings and go to Network and Internet. If you go to the Wi-Fi section, you should have a toggle/switch that will disable Wi-Fi only.
Thank you~
Mason L.
Microsoft Surface Technical Support
anyway to only allow admins enable the Wi-Fi in the system tray?
See what happens if you disable the WLANsvc service?
BTW there is also netsh wlan set autoconfig no
but I am less clear about the completeness of that option. ; )
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
Don't understand what you mean. If you forget all known networks, you should not
connect to wireless.
>> I don't want anyone to be able to going the surface to a Wi-Fi network.
