Tips & Tricks : Enabling Wireless Network in Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition

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Tips & Tricks : Enabling Wireless Network in Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition

- skufel

Posted by skufel on Mar 15, 2013 in Infrastructure, Network, Scripting, Windows | 16 comments

Windows Server 2012 Wireless

If you want to use Windows Server 2012 Datacenter on workstation/laptop (sometimes it is handy to have mobile workstation with server operating system) you might experience issues with wireless networking. Even if driver for wireless network adapter is installed you might not be able to connect to any wi-fi network.

In order to use wireless in Windows Server 2012 Datacenter additional feature has to be installed: Wireless LAN Service. This can be installed from PowerShell prompt using add-windowsfeature wireless-networking command, as shown on screenshot below:

Once installed and server rebooted make sure that WLAN AutoConfig service is started, as shown on screenshot below:

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7-14-13

Aswin Pribadi says:

Thank you!

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2-22-14

appreciate your help says:

Thanks for this post, it was very helpful

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6-16-14

AP says:

Life Saver! Thank you

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10-15-14

Matthew N says:

Guy you are the best.
It was soooo helpful

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1-14-15

muba says:

thank you only your solution worked because despite adding feature service was stopped so I had to enable it 🙂

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3-28-15

Topon Chandra Debnath says:

Thanks a lot for this tips.

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5-7-15

karamat ullah says:

oh. i love u. very helpfull. i was thinking about how i can enable it. and now its here. thanks alot

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1-14-16

fadhli says:

Thank you sir, you help us alot

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1-14-16

Mike R says:

very helpful especially starting the wlan service

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2-15-16

Mehedi hasan dipu says:

Before complete this system do i need to configure Network Driver

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3-21-16

zo says:

did not work for me at all still fails. thanks anyways

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3-21-16

SKufel says:

Any specific error message you get?

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4-23-16

bern says:

for me also… wont work.. try to restart the server.. waiting .. 🙁

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4-23-16

bern says:

my mobile unable to connect… services already running…

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4-12-17

Fakru says:

It’s work for me….thanks lot.

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9-11-17

Patrick says:

Great!!!
Worked perfectly for my Win server 2012R2 on HP envy 750-424 Desktop.

Thank you so much

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