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Server 2012 Group Policy Proxy Settings not being applied to XP, 7 clients
Posted on 2012-12-26
Hello all
so basically the issue is this: Server 2012 group policy is not applying proxy address settings to client computers as the title states. Here are the details:
-Server 2012 domain controller (just one), a "XPTEST" computer (XP Pro x86 SP3, Group Policy Client Side Extensions update installed) and a "WIN7TEST" computer (Windows 7 Pro x64), both joined to domain.
-Group Policy Management roll installed on Server2012 DC.
-"InternetRestriction" GPO created, link enabled to the "Users" OU containing "testuser", Security Filtering contains the user "testuser" only.
-In the InternetRestriction GPO, the following edits have been made:
-User Configuration\Preferences\
-General Tab: www.ups.com set as home page
-Connections Tab\LAN Settings\Proxy Server \"Use proxy server for your LAN" box checked
-Proxy address specified as 0.0.0.0
-"Bypass proxy server for local addresses" box checked
-Under Advanced, exceptions created is www.ups.com
-all edits have been activated by changing the red dashed line to the solid green line (F6).
That’s it.
When tested, the home page setting is successfully applied as www.ups.com, however the proxy address of 0.0.0.0 and the exception of www.ups.com is NOT APPLIED.
Group Policy Results Wizard indicates the policy is being applied successfully to my "testuser"
running gpupdate /force on the clients is successful, however the results are unchanged.
Running gpresult /v on the clients indicates that the policy is successfully being applied, nothing is blocked.
running rsop.msc shows me the classic group policy screen (which does have the Internet Explorer maintenance in User Config\Policies that was omitted from Server 2012 Group Policy), and the proxy settings are blank.
This is the case on both the XP machine running IE8, and the Windows 7 machine running IE9.
I know at least part of the policy is successfully being applied because the homepage is being changed, however the proxy address settings are not. It’s strange that the home page setting is being applied, but yet the proxy address settings in that same settings window is not being applied.
*note: I do believe Server 2012 and Server 2008 R2 are very similar (if not identical) in this regard.
I am completely out of ideas.......
so basically the issue is this: Server 2012 group policy is not applying proxy address settings to client computers as the title states. Here are the details:
-Server 2012 domain controller (just one), a "XPTEST" computer (XP Pro x86 SP3, Group Policy Client Side Extensions update installed) and a "WIN7TEST" computer (Windows 7 Pro x64), both joined to domain.
-Group Policy Management roll installed on Server2012 DC.
-"InternetRestriction" GPO created, link enabled to the "Users" OU containing "testuser", Security Filtering contains the user "testuser" only.
-In the InternetRestriction GPO, the following edits have been made:
-User Configuration\Preferences\
-General Tab: www.ups.com set as home page
-Connections Tab\LAN Settings\Proxy Server \"Use proxy server for your LAN" box checked
-Proxy address specified as 0.0.0.0
-"Bypass proxy server for local addresses" box checked
-Under Advanced, exceptions created is www.ups.com
-all edits have been activated by changing the red dashed line to the solid green line (F6).
That’s it.
When tested, the home page setting is successfully applied as www.ups.com, however the proxy address of 0.0.0.0 and the exception of www.ups.com is NOT APPLIED.
Group Policy Results Wizard indicates the policy is being applied successfully to my "testuser"
running gpupdate /force on the clients is successful, however the results are unchanged.
Running gpresult /v on the clients indicates that the policy is successfully being applied, nothing is blocked.
running rsop.msc shows me the classic group policy screen (which does have the Internet Explorer maintenance in User Config\Policies that was omitted from Server 2012 Group Policy), and the proxy settings are blank.
This is the case on both the XP machine running IE8, and the Windows 7 machine running IE9.
I know at least part of the policy is successfully being applied because the homepage is being changed, however the proxy address settings are not. It’s strange that the home page setting is being applied, but yet the proxy address settings in that same settings window is not being applied.
*note: I do believe Server 2012 and Server 2008 R2 are very similar (if not identical) in this regard.
I am completely out of ideas.......
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Under your proxy settings that you are trying to apply, do you have "Gopher" selected??
If so, deselect it and try again....Gopher will interfere with proxy settings starting with IE7.
If so, deselect it and try again....Gopher will interfere with proxy settings starting with IE7.
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I've had similar issues in the past deploying proxy server setting via GP to my client workstations. I have found the only way to get the proxy server setting to correctly apply to all workstations XP & 7 was to set the Proxy Setting in the <Internet Explorer Maintenance> area of the GP with is the old way do doing things but does get seem to work.
I would love to find out what causes this issue any why....
I would love to find out what causes this issue any why....
we did have set to all proxy settings which we changed to setting all but gopher. this did seem to solve the issue. Thank you for your input and assistance
As a follow up just for anyone looking at this answer it turns out the key was managing the group policy from a Windows 7 computer and not from the Server 2012. As the server 2012 does not contain an Internet Explorer Maintenance area. However when you manage the GPO from a Windows 7 or XP computer your computer will insert the desired Internet Explorer Maintenance fields in order to give the desired behavior. I should have given split credit for the answer above to both compdigit44 and dstewartjr as it was both their answers that led me in the right direction.
As a cautionary warning after you create the GPO in the lower operating system I have run into the issue of when you edit it from the server 2012; it causes you to lose its ability to work correctly. I believe this is because even though it still shows the Internet Explorer Maintenance area it no longer is effective. I tried just editing it from the lower OS but this did not seem to work for me and thus I had to delete the GPO and recreate it from the lower OS again in order for it to work correctly or as intended.
As a cautionary warning after you create the GPO in the lower operating system I have run into the issue of when you edit it from the server 2012; it causes you to lose its ability to work correctly. I believe this is because even though it still shows the Internet Explorer Maintenance area it no longer is effective. I tried just editing it from the lower OS but this did not seem to work for me and thus I had to delete the GPO and recreate it from the lower OS again in order for it to work correctly or as intended.
Active 1 day ago
AGAIN since Internet Explorer 7(and beyond) does not support the Gopher protocol, this was the main cause of "Internet Explorer maintenance" settings not getting applied.
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-265300
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-265300
I agree dstewartjr. However, where your answer is incomplete is that even if you change the Gopher settings in the preference field in windows server 2012 it does not work for setting proxy settings. You have to do it in the "Internet Explorer maintenance" and that is not an option that is available in windows server 2012. thus you must edit the GPO from a lower OS and not from the server itself
Active 1 day ago
On the 2012 look under Group Policy Preferences/and or IEAK
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846772.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846772.aspx
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