RE: GPO that forces users to use a proxy server.

From: Ryan Parrish (RyanP_at_foxracing.com)
Date: 10/29/04


Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:15:29 -0700
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

Thanks all for the ideas.
I hadn't thought about doing a transparent proxy, and am going to look into that first and if that cant work then we are going with the 'auto-detect'/dhcp option 252 idea. Both great ideas and I think both would even work for our Mac users without having to manually setup each one.

For those who where wondering, we are instituting a policy that all company internet access must go though the proxy and blocking all other access at the firewall, that is why putting laptop users in a separate OU and not turning on the proxy server would not work - they couldn't access the internet in a month or two :-)

Once again thanks!

-Ryan Parrish
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Parrish
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:28 PM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: GPO that forces users to use a proxy server.

We are trying to implement a GPO that forces all users/computers to use a proxy sever for there internet access in the company, but have hit a snag. We have lots of laptop users that we found during testing when they take there laptops home they can access the internet using there own ISP since we set the policy to use a proxy server that is not available to the outside internet, thus they get no internet access.
Has anybody dealt with this kind of situation before? Is there a way to set a GPO to only be active during business hours?

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Ryan Parrish
ryanp@foxracing.com
IT Dept.
408-776-8633 extension 1229
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