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CM_WiFiEntries Configuration Service Provider

4/8/2010

The CM_WiFiEntries Configuration Service Provider is deprecated and is supported for backward compatibility only. For Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later, use the Wi-Fi Configuration Service Provider instead.

The CM_WiFiEntries Configuration Service Provider configures the Wireless Network (WiFi) entries on Windows Mobile devices. This configuration service provider changes the destination metanetwork for a WiFi service set identifier (SSID). If the SSID is already connected, the changed setting is not applied until the next time you connect to that network.

Note

This Configuration Service Provider is not available on Windows Mobile Standard.

Note

This Configuration Service Provider is managed over the OMA Client Provisioning (formerly WAP Client Provisioning) protocol.

Note

Access to this Configuration Service Provider is determined by Security roles. Because OEMs and Mobile Operators can selectively disallow access, ask them about the availability of this Configuration Service Provider. For more information about roles, see Security Roles and Default Roles for Configuration Service Providers.

The CM_WiFiEntries Configuration Service Provider is used to configure a wireless network association with Internet or Private networks on Windows Mobile devices.

The nocharacteristic tag will work on the top two levels to delete all, or specific, entries.

The CM_WiFiEntries Configuration Service Provider can be configured in the following ways:

  • The user enters the association to configure the wireless network to the Internet or Private network, and then the user interface (UI) component calls Connection Manager again with the new setting. Connection Manager would, in turn, store this setting.
  • A corporation pre-configures a device prior to rollout with the information about their WiFi network and its metanetwork association.
  • The configuration information for the metanetwork association is updated through over-the-air (OTA) configuration of these parameters.

The following table shows the default settings. The default security role maps to each subnode unless specific permission is granted to the subnode.

Permissions

Read/Write

Roles allowed to query and update setting

Manager

AuthenticatedUser

The following image shows the Configuration Service Provider in tree format as used by OMA Client Provisioning.

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Characteristics

  • <entryname>
    User-friendly, unique network name. Some possible networks are MSFTINET or MSFTWLAN. Used as the name of an 802.11 wireless network connection. Fields under this characteristic specify parameters for this connection.

    Note

    A slash mark () and quotation mark (") are not valid characters in the network name.

Parameters

  • DestId
    This parameter is used in the <entryname> characteristic as a GUID that represents the unique ID of the network to which this entry connects. See the Connmgr.h header for predefined GUID values IID_DestNet*.

    Note

    The only two valid networks for Windows Mobile devices are Internet and Corporate/Private Network.

    The following table shows the default settings.

    Permissions

    Read/Write

    Data type

    String

Microsoft Custom Elements

The following table shows the Microsoft custom elements that this Configuration Service Provider supports for OMA Client Provisioning.

Elements Available

noparm

No

nocharacteristic

Yes

characteristic-query

Yes

parm-query

Yes

Use these elements to build standard OMA Client Provisioning (formerly WAP Client Provisioning) configuration XML. For information about specific elements, see MSPROV DTD Elements. For examples of how to generally use the Microsoft custom elements, see Provisioning XML File Examples.

For information about OMA Client Provisioning, see OMA Client Provisioning Files.

See Also

Tasks

CM_WiFiEntries Configuration Service Provider Examples for OMA Client Provisioning

Concepts

Configuration Service Provider Reference for Windows Mobile Devices