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#52260 - 2000-11-17 02:43 PM Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
Anonymous
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Can anyone help, I need to prevent users from entering the proxy server settings in IE5/IE5.5.
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#52261 - 2000-11-17 03:01 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
Shawn Administrator Offline
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gray:

How about this one...

$key="Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel"

$=writevalue("$key","Proxy","1","REG_DWORD")

Shawn.

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#52262 - 2000-11-22 07:26 AM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Depending on your OS of course...

We've seen 98 client not like this reg hack during the logon process.

98 clients seem to change it back... i.e. undo what this does, but only if it's done in a logon script.

hmmm.... MS issue?

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#52263 - 2000-11-22 03:49 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Guys i am drawing a blank on this.... what key is not accessible to win9x users during Logon?


brain needs caffeine......
Bryce

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#52264 - 2000-11-22 05:07 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Registered: 2000-02-16
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Loc: Urbana, OH, USA
I've been working this today trying to track who is set up for our proxy and bounce it against who is actually authorized.
For all Win OS's I'm using:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable and logging it by Workstation-username to segregate the profile settings.

Why not just set the above key to 0 to disable their access? You could also delete the ProxyServer value(s) for good measure.

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#52265 - 2000-11-22 05:53 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
Shawn Administrator Offline
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Gray has already emailed me to advise that this registry setting works (for him), not to sure about this Win9x stuff. Can't figure why it would "change it back".

This key/value pair doesn't normally exist and is a "restriction" - not a "setting". Gray doesn't want to set the proxy - he wants to restrict users from changing it (grey it out).

In order to "change it back" - would Win9x not have to delete (or not save) the key/value pair ?

I took this hack straight out of inetres.adm - the MS policy template for setting IE restrictions.

Shawn.

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#52266 - 2000-11-25 03:40 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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aren't you simply using profiles on the machine... so the current value you are setting is ovewritten by the profile value?
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#52267 - 2000-12-02 02:18 AM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
Anonymous
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The web browser probably has "Automatically detect settings" enabled and is resetting.
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#52268 - 2000-12-05 06:53 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Does anyone know how to disable the "Automatically detect settings" using kix? Where is it located in the registry of a Win95 box??

Thanks,
CW

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#52269 - 2000-12-05 10:25 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Have you tried using the internet explorer administration Kit, this lets you disable any part of Internet explorer preset proxy settings grey out anything also if you look at the policy files (.adm) that come with it it will tell you all the keys in the registry you can use, to disable it.

DAz

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#52270 - 2000-12-06 09:53 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Yeah. Thats how we've been doing it. We didn't want to have to create a new IE package & distribute it. Thought we could do a registry hack.

thanks,
cw

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#52271 - 2000-12-11 03:21 PM Re: Internet Explorer Proxy Server Settings
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Be aware of this: The HKEY_CURRENT_USER (user part of the registry) is NOT available during logonscript execution on Win9x systems. This part of the registry comes available after the logonscript has been executed. This is by design, because the user.dat file can be loaded from a driveletter which is mapped in the logonscript! The HKEY_CURRENT_USER still points to .DEFAULT_USER during logonscript execution.

This is only true for Win9x systems. On Winnnt systems the ntuser.dat is loaded from a UNC path before the logonscript is executed!

This is why executing a kixtart script for setting the proxy after the logonscript works, but within the logonscript fails.

You can easily workaround this, by initiating an execution for an extra kixtart script in the 'runonce' key in the logonscript. This key is executed after loading the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and this wil work.

He're some reg settings for MSIE:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="HTTP://WWW.COMCONS.NL"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=hex:01,00,00,00
"ProxyHttp1.1"=dword:00000000
"ProxyOverride"="*.comcons.nl"
"ProxyServer"="proxyserver:8080"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config\0001\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=hex:01,00,00,00
"EnableAutodial"=hex:00,00,00,00
"ProxyServer"="proxyserver:8080"

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