Proxy settings via Group Policy Preference not applying since IE11 removed from stations

Question

Hi

I've been looking for some official Microsoft guidance on an issue we've come across however I've not been able to find anything

We currently deploy proxy settings via Group Policy Preference -> Internet Settings -> Internet Explorer 10, with other browsers set to use system settings, which then picks up the same settings. The issue we've found however is, the preference actually checks for the presence of iexplore.exe and so, on newer Windows 10 workstations where the IE11 feature is not installed by default, the settings fail to deploy

We'd prefer to stick with GPP rather than the new Edge/Chrome GPO settings, as we target different proxy settings depending on AD group membership so, to do this with GPO would mean several GPOs, each with the proxy settings configured for each browser which seems a little messy

We've found we can remove this check from within the xml file, which does then allow the settings to deploy correctly. We could also add a registry preference to manually add the proxy settings however I wondered if there was an official, supported way of achieving this

Many thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Based on my research, we need to deploy different GPOs for different browser as you mentioned above.
Or you can consider a script to complete this though i'm not familiar with it.
Similar cases for your reference:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/459754-i-need-to-force-all-web-browsers-to-use-proxy-server
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