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Automatically detect proxy settings ignores group policy

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http://serverfault.com – We came into work this morning, had were constantly getting calls about people not being able to access the internet from our 2003 terminal serv. As it turned out, they could, but only after a few minutes of IE trying to automatically detect proxy settings. When setting user's up in the past, we have always unticked this option in IE's connection window, but for some reason, it has decided to tick itself again. I have check group policy, and this policy has not been applied to any of the affected servers, except one. The policy was configured to disable automatic detection, and prevent peop (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 12/18/2012

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