Wifi SSID deployment

InTune wifi SSID deployment

Managing devices within the organisation is getting easier with Microsoft's InTune service, especially if like us, you have a hybrid on-prem\ cloud environment. However, Microsoft need to up their game as this is a very competitive market and if my experiences with the portal are anything to go by, the app needs a lot of work before it can challenge the likes of Sophos or Mobile Iron for domination of this arena. 

Today was a good example of what should be a simple process, becoming nigh on impossible to troubleshoot due to the lack of log files in the InTune dashboard.

I'd have thought that an InTune custom configuration policy would be a simple task to create and deploy but after eight hours of trying I've had to admit that this one will either have to wait for a call to Microsoft's product support team or wait for the InTune admin centre to be updated with specific policies that support wifi profile delivery with device enrolment.

Even Config manager 2012 R2 lacks complete support for wifi profile deployment, with the inability to assign a password for the SSID, this looks like a glaring oversight of this functionality. Granted, this can be overcome with workarounds but if a product isn't ready for production release then don't release it until it is.