WIFI SSID Switch

supersizeal
Contributor

Long story short,
How can I switch my current computers connected to wifi SSID Jamf_Class to JAMF_CLASS?

I created a Network Config Policy and deployed. The clients have the new network policy, but the computers will not auto switch to JAMF_CLASS.

Both SSID have different passwords.
Does the upper and lower case of the same SSID matter?
Is there a way to set WiFi priority ( which wifi is listed 1st )?

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atomczynski
Valued Contributor

Confirm devices have the new SSID payload.
Remove the old SSID profile from scope.

Bonus tip: Deploy one more SSID profile to your "fallback / backup" network. Have something in place in case devices don't communicate IE create another SSID profile and push out to the clients and if needed spin up that SSID on your network so that your clients can communicate with your server and outside (at least temporarily) on that network until you have something permanent. You don't want to lock yourself out.

You can also run a command networksetup -removepreferredwirelessnetwork en0 nameofthenetwork but since you have that in a profile, the clients will reconnect again once they receive the SSID payload again.