Changing IE settings

[PreviousPoster]

Hey guys , I wonder if somebody could help me out here , im at a loss with this at the moment.

We need to roll out a .pac file to all of our clients , taking control finally of there browsing.

However all the clients currently have a proxy server that has been set manually over the years in their IE.

So here is my problem , if I set a policy to add the .pac file , it does that just fine.....but.....it leaves the old proxy in there.
I need to really add the .pac file , remove the old prxy settings and then lock down the tab so it cannot be changed.

Ive managed to add the pac files and lock the settings down but that obviously causes problems with the old proxy still in there but not accessible.

Can anybody help me with this ?

Is it possible to remove the proxy using a global policy that has been entered manuallly ?

Thanks

Andy

[PreviousPoster]

Well i fixed it...sort of.

Couldnt get GP to undo a setting that it hadn't made in the first place ( ie the proxy )

So created another policy to add a fake proxy to run before my 'proper' policy. This works as as the proxy is blank in my 'proper' policy it removes the entry put in by the first one.

A bit of a bodge I think but its working.

[PreviousPoster]

Hmmm...that 'fix' is proving unreliable and a bit problematic.

Does anybody know if there is a way to 'remove' a proxy setting from a browser and apply a .pac file setting in its place ?

[bcgreen24]

I'd like to know the answer to this myself...half the computers in my domain don't have internet access because the proxy is set and needs to be "unset" due to some recent changes in our network structure.

I really don't want to do it machine by machine...there's gotta be a way!

Thanks!
Bryan

***update***
Gee, that was easy. I just put in an exception-- *.* which effectively disables the proxy setting.

[PreviousPoster]

Ahhhh.....that makes some sense....so it effectively bypasses the proxy for everything.......simple really

But in my case I would have a pac file and a proxy in that does nothing , whaty order does IE process this if both are set ?

Which setting gets presedence ?

[bcgreen24]

D'oh! The proxy setting isn't being applied via group policy.

I have an OU with computers in it. I'm applying a GP that changes the proxy settings. I have loopback processing enabled.

After booting or logging onto a machine, gpresult indicates that my policy has been applied, yet the proxy settings in IE haven't changed.

As a test, I added in another "user" setting to make sure loopback processing was working. I have calc.exe running at user logon. When I re-apply the policy and log into a computer in the OU, calc.exe does indeed start, but the proxy settings don't change.

Help.

***EDIT***
*sigh*....I really hate GP sometimes...it's working now, but only after applying it at the domain level. Doesn't make sense to me, being that it is only linked to a single OU. Oh well. Our GP's at the domain level keep piling up. Could someone explain to me what settings HAVE to be applied at the domain level rather than the OU level?

Thanks!
Bryan

[bcgreen24]

*sigh*, again. Now this policy is being applied to every computer in the domain. I had to create a security group and add all the computers in the OU I wanted this policy applied to it. So what the heck was the point of creating this computer OU?

***EDIT***
Great! Now the setting isn't being applied to the computers in the security group I created. They are in the security filter list ,and the policy has precedence over the domain policy AND it's being enforced. Yet I STILL can't get it to apply. The default domain policy's proxy settings are being applied instead.

Bryan