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    August 02

    Group Policy Extension query

     
    Someone contacted me to ask me a question about how to use the Group Policy extension to set a proxy url for their organisation.  Because of the odd way this whole spaces thing is set up, I couldn't reply to his message!  Anyway, worth posting for everyone who has been trying it to see how its done.
     
    If you download the Group Policy Extension zip, you will see an example ADM template.  Install the extension (better to install to %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\extensions and not the user's profile) and apply the admin template to your local group policy and set the home page to whatever and you should see it sets and locks that.
     
    For the proxy, you need to set 2 preferences:  network.proxy.autoconfig_url and network.proxy.type.  The first is obviously the url of your proxy and the second is type, which you want to set to 2 (set it in the Administrative Template as a string, not a DWORD).  You need to set both to get them to work.  So, just add those entries to the Admin Template in the same way as the browser.startup.homepage entry and it should be good to go.
     
    Anyway, an ADM template to do this will look like:
     
    CLASS MACHINE

    CATEGORY "Mozilla Firefox Group Policy Settings"
    KEYNAME "Software\Policies\ADM\Firefox\Locked"
    POLICY "General Settings"
    PART "Homepage" EDITTEXT REQUIRED
    VALUENAME browser.startup.homepage
    END PART
    END POLICY
    POLICY "Proxy"
    PART "Type (set 2 for autoconfig)" EDITTEXT REQUIRED
    VALUENAME network.proxy.type
    END PART
    PART "autoconfig url" EDITTEXT REQUIRED
    VALUENAME network.proxy.autoconfig_url
    END PART
    END POLICY

    END CATEGORY
     
    You can tidy it up and make it a lot more "user friendly"!
     
    If anyone has any questions about this or anything else Firefox Group Policy related, feel free to contact me at the address to the left of the page:  mark(dot)sammons(at)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk    (replace the dots and ats obviously!)
     
    11:38 PM | Blog it | Group Policy Firefox Extension

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