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Changing IE Proxy Setting Remotely

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by men

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I help run a network of 150 clients. I know how to go into the registry, and remotely delete their proxy settings for IE, but I don't want to have to do this for 150 computers. I downloaded a policy adm for IE that allows you to globally change the proxy setting from the PDC, but I haven't been able to get it to work. All clients currently have cccproxy port 80 set in their browser. Does anyone know how I might disable the proxy setting, or change it to a blank host and port? BTW 98% of the clients are NT.

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by rcc

Hi
You need two different policy files and two policy templates for Win95 and NT clients. The NT one should be called NTPolicy.pol and you should deploy it in the Netlogon Share (typically c:]\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts) . You need to load policy editor, load your policy template for NT, go to the Default User, go to the Internet Explorer PROXY settings entry and CLEAR the checkbox. Go to the Default Computer and do the same if necessary (some machines have the proxy settings per machine not per user). Save the files, wait 15 minutes and ask your users to log-off/log on. TIP: If you want to selectively modify this settings for SOME of the users, create a global group, add the necessary users to it, then in the Policy Editor create a group policy and apply the settings I've just described above.

The Win9x policy works in the same way. You will need Policy Editor for WIndows 9x (on the Win9x CD, search for *.pol files and it will point you to the right path). Use it inthe same way as I described above and deploy the policy file (policy.pol, this time) in the same location as the other one.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Radu

by men

I wish that it had helped, but none of the computers in the office picked up the setting change.

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