In this tutorial, you will learn to use Goverlan’s Process Automation framework to change the wifi password of an already existing wireless profile on your Windows machine by calling the netsh process.
Note: This activation method will only work for Server 2008/Windows Vista and higher.
**These tutorials are for demonstration purposes. Please test all Scope Actions before deploying them into production.**
Tutorial
1. If you have never created a Scope Action before, please refer to the below video and the Scope Action Creation Basics article for more information.
2. Click on Add/Remove. Then Execute Action > Processes > Run a new process.
3. You will now be at the Set Arguments: Run a new process window. We will select the following for each:
Process name: netsh.exe
Process argument string: wlan set profileparameter name=YOURPROFILENAME keyMaterial=NEWPASSWORD
YOURPROFILENAME must be EXACTLY how it appears on the machine that you are modifying.
Run as type: 0
Run Username: Leave blank
Run as Password: Leave blank
Wait for Completion: True
Wait Timeout (seconds): 60
Kill Process on Time Out: True
Hide Execution Window: True
Click OK after selecting the above.
4. Finally, click Ok and proceed to run the Scope Action according to your requirements.