Global IT just put in a group policy that will automatically set the proxy for our internet. Thing is our site doesn't have a proxy and we don't need one to get outside the network. Anybody know a way to set the registry or otherwise configure not to update the proxy on our local machines?

2/24/2011 12:29:48 PM

either get them to set up a WMI filter to exclude your machines (or user accounts, depending on where they stuck the GPO) or write a daemon that watches the registry for changes to that key (there are two possibilities based on whether they are forcing a machine-wide proxy or not).

2/25/2011 7:18:10 PM

a work around is going to be a pain in the ass depending on how often group policy pushes. get your local admin or global admin to fix the scope of his gpo. in the meantime a simple batch script that you can double click to reset the option in the registry should be sufficient. you can also use a browser that isn't IE and therefore doesn't have corresponding group policies defined.

2/27/2011 10:27:16 AM