wpad and GPO force auto detection

[lost4life]

I have installed an ISA 2004 server on our network. I do not want to hard code the proxy settings in IE due to having a lot of mobile users on the netwrok (that GPO works fine). I have created the wpad entry in DNS and when I manually select the Automatically detect option in IE- everything works. The problem is that most end users do not have this option checked in IE. I am trying to great a GPO that will force this setting but nothing seems to be working. In my tests, I have configured User Configuration\Internet Explorer Maintenance\Connection\Automatic Browser Configuration and I have also tried to import a configuration neither seem to work. Any suggestions?

 

[AndyPeck]

I would also set up DHCP to provide WPAD, I can't remember the article number but if you search on WPAD 252 you should find it.

Seen it here to

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/isa/2004/plan/automaticdiscovery.mspx

hope this helps

Andy

 

[coco10]

hi, check this for a complete guide.

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Configuring-DHCP-DNS-automatic-discovery.html

coco10

 

[lost4life]

Thanks for you help. The only problem with the DHCP solution is that users need to be members of the local admin group on their PCs which is not a solution for our network. The previous administrator had setup a lot of GPO's and serveral of them were preventing my settings from taking effect. Once I went through them all and changed some setting, it appears to be working. Thanks again

 

[AndyPeck]

Not sure I follow, DHCP is not a user permisson based services. why would your users have to locals admin to get an IP address from the DHCP server ???

Andy