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Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service

If you are a Windows Server fan, you must have installed the 2008 version. I did it on my laptop and it was a walk in the park but I have encountered a small a problem that took allot of hours to figure it out. All my hardware was identified by windows directly however I was not able to find any wireless connections so after hours of changing the driver for my wireless card I discovered that Windows Server 2008 does not install the Wireless service by default so if this happens to you just go to the control panel and enable this feature enjoy as shown in the image below.

 

 

 

 Enjoy.


Posted 02-21-2008 11:30 PM by yazanouf

Comments

Jay wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 03-22-2008 12:27 PM

Thank you for saving me hours of searching!

Rakshit wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 03-24-2008 4:58 AM

You saved my Night and 5 Cups of Coffee.

Paul wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 05-01-2008 8:06 AM

thx, few hour more for another pleasure :)

Chris wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 05-16-2008 3:33 PM

After reading this, 2 things...

1 - I feel so damn stupid.

2 - THANK you for fixing my "problem"

Ok, and 3, I still feel so stupid right now =( lol  I spent hours on this one too.

jason wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 05-28-2008 6:25 PM

How does this help?  where did you go to fix this setting??????

Roman wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 06-18-2008 5:09 PM

Jason, if you haven't found it yet, it's at the bottoms of your features page when you go to add features.

Mohsen wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 07-08-2008 10:54 AM

Thanks bro for the advice.

hackersir wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 07-09-2008 10:08 AM

thanks for you !!from china.friend

hackersir@msn.com

tozi wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 07-10-2008 8:37 AM

loooool... soo stupid ^^ i even went thru installing another copy of WS2k8...

(Control panel -> Add Programs and features -> Features -> Add features, there check the Wireless LAN service (see picture above)... for ppl like me who doesnt know where "add features" is (was))

Marc wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 07-21-2008 2:41 PM

Nice one, saved me a lot of extra searching! Thank you :)

hakan uzuner wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 07-26-2008 8:52 AM

thank you for information

Sami wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 07-28-2008 12:45 PM

Thanks a LOT

Andrew Rea wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 08-01-2008 2:09 PM

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.  This was a real PAIN!  Saved e hours this has

:-)

Andrew

Garett wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 08-02-2008 2:47 AM

Thank you, you've solved my problem from the last 3 hours or so!

Hugo wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 08-04-2008 3:00 PM

Thank you, probably saved me a night of troubles

Jeff wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 08-06-2008 8:21 AM

Thanks a whole Bunch! Now I just need it to dual boot with Ubuntu and I'll be set. :)

kzlmm wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 08-13-2008 5:53 PM

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Davina wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 08-31-2008 10:56 AM

You are awesome.  I spent about 5 hours trying to figure this out!!!!!!

Thank you!!!!!

Steve wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 09-11-2008 12:56 PM

Haha.. oh man.. I was so angry last night when I installed 2008 at work on the wired lan.. took my laptop home and couldn't figure out the wireless issue...

Thanks.. you prevented me from formatting my drive again and going with Ubuntu.

Jörn wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 09-19-2008 3:22 PM

You´re the man. And on first place when googling for "windows server 2008 wireless".

thanks a lot for the tip.

joe wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 09-22-2008 9:35 AM

thank you very much.  Saved me a lot of troubles.

Gautham Kamath wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 10-01-2008 6:24 AM

Thanks.

Is Windows getting less intuitive wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 10-24-2008 9:29 PM

Thanks, for the tip.  I feel the cognitive requirement for this is worse than in prior versions....

mR.Xm wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 11-07-2008 9:46 AM

Thanx

Srinath Sadda wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 11-13-2008 6:14 AM

Hello,

"Thank You" is not enough! :)

Brendon wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 11-20-2008 1:04 AM

Thanks Man you saved me another day of hard work. Congratulations on finding the solution must have taken u a while

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on 11-21-2008 2:58 PM

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H wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 12-23-2008 12:55 AM

REALY thanks man

i was guessing it would be some disabled service or something realy silly

thanks for saving me the hours :D

SK wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 12-24-2008 11:08 AM

Dude you rock, thought it was something daft, now load sharing through my 2 wifi cards again :D I kiss you!!!

TG wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 12-28-2008 1:37 AM

Thank You for your help. I thought, server 2008 doesnt support wireless because of security :)) I feel so damn

Brandon wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 01-19-2009 2:36 AM

I would have saved so much time if I had JFGI. Thanks for this entry, man.

Jakob Helgason wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 01-24-2009 7:27 AM

Thank you, thank you. You saved me many hours

m0dE wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 01-26-2009 7:34 PM

THANKI YOUUUU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU OMGOMGOMGOGM

James wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 01-28-2009 12:00 AM

Thanks bro that was really pissing me off you the man.

Paul wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 04-14-2009 3:56 PM

Thanks man... this tip is STILL helping people!! :)

aguyinNebraska wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 04-26-2009 5:29 PM

Wow thanks a million that helped! So did following comments. I spent time re-installing drivers and OS's too.

Fay wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 05-24-2009 10:49 AM

Problem solved. Thank you very much!

nate wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 06-05-2009 8:29 PM

Thanks, wireless works now.

nemo wrote re: Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service
on 06-11-2009 10:19 AM

thx! i was looking for wireless 5 minutes,then i searched here^^

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