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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.

Comments

 

Jay said:

Thank you for saving me hours of searching!

March 22, 2008 12:27 PM
 

Rakshit said:

You saved my Night and 5 Cups of Coffee.

March 24, 2008 4:58 AM
 

Paul said:

thx, few hour more for another pleasure :)

May 1, 2008 8:06 AM
 

Chris said:

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.

May 16, 2008 3:33 PM
 

jason said:

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

May 28, 2008 6:25 PM
 

Roman said:

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

June 18, 2008 5:09 PM
 

Mohsen said:

Thanks bro for the advice.

July 8, 2008 10:54 AM
 

hackersir said:

thanks for you !!from china.friend

hackersir@msn.com

July 9, 2008 10:08 AM
 

tozi said:

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))

July 10, 2008 8:37 AM
 

Marc said:

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

July 21, 2008 2:41 PM
 

hakan uzuner said:

thank you for information

July 26, 2008 8:52 AM
 

Sami said:

Thanks a LOT

July 28, 2008 12:45 PM
 

Andrew Rea said:

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

August 1, 2008 2:09 PM
 

Garett said:

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

August 2, 2008 2:47 AM
 

Hugo said:

Thank you, probably saved me a night of troubles

August 4, 2008 3:00 PM
 

Jeff said:

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

August 6, 2008 8:21 AM
 

kzlmm said:

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

August 13, 2008 5:53 PM
 

Davina said:

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

Thank you!!!!!

August 31, 2008 10:56 AM
 

Steve said:

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.

September 11, 2008 12:56 PM
 

Jörn said:

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

thanks a lot for the tip.

September 19, 2008 3:22 PM
 

joe said:

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

September 22, 2008 9:35 AM
 

Gautham Kamath said:

Thanks.

October 1, 2008 6:24 AM

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