From a user group post by Jim Harrison. Thanks Jim for the step-by-step on this common question. Notice Jim’s sense of humor comes through on step one.
1. Start, Server Manglement
2. Expand
– Advanced Manglement,
– Group Policy Manglement
– Forest: <yourdomainhere>
– Domains: <yourdomainhere>
3. R-click Default Domain Policy, select “Edit”When the “Group Policy Object Editor” window appears,
1. Expand
– Windows Settings
– Internet Exploder Maintenance
2. Select “Connection”
3. In the right pane, r-click “Automatic Browser Configuration”In the “Automatic Browser Configuration” window
– if you don’t have wpad entries in your DNS, uncheck “Automatically
detect…”
1. select “Enable Automatic Configuration”
2. in the Auto-proxy URL field, enter http://<yourisainteralip>:
<listenerport>/wpad.dat (listenerport is 8080 by default)
3. Click “OK” to close the “Automatic Browser Configuration” window
4. Close the “Group Policy Object Editor” window1. Start, Run, “cmd” <enter>.
2. type “gpupdate /force” <enter>...all done
[Via ISA in SBS – yes, it’s secure]
Actually I changed step to 2. to put the wpad.dat entry in the Auto-Config URL field. I think it didn’t work for me in the other configuration. I also made an Alias entry in the forward lookup zone so my other browsers can autoconfig using DNS. I already had set up DHCP to autoconfig. For a little more spice in my life I am checking out firefoxadm. This is Sourceforge project to manage the Firefox configuration using a GPO.