Upgrading to IE 11 in school, Proxy server connections refused.

[Asomodai]

Hello all.

 

I have begun a project to upgrade our schools IE from 9 til 11. I am running Server 2012, applied the ADML/ADM/ADMX templates and created a policy to redirect traffic to our Bloxx proxy server.

 

I log onto the machine with the updated policies with IE 11 on it and brings up the message "Connection to Gateway failed, Exception text: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it -insert random web address-.

 

Any ideas? IE 9 still works fine. Chrome and Firefox work fine with their policies, just IE 11 refuses.

 

This only happens on student accounts. Should I remove the previous Internet Explorer Maintenance settings for IE 9? I am surprised they would effect IE 11.

 

Cheers!

[grant_girdwood]

Hello all.

 

I have begun a project to upgrade our schools IE from 9 til 11. I am running Server 2012, applied the ADML/ADM/ADMX templates and created a policy to redirect traffic to our Bloxx proxy server.

 

I log onto the machine with the updated policies with IE 11 on it and brings up the message "Connection to Gateway failed, Exception text: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it -insert random web address-.

 

Any ideas? IE 9 still works fine. Chrome and Firefox work fine with their policies, just IE 11 refuses.

 

This only happens on student accounts. Should I remove the previous Internet Explorer Maintenance settings for IE 9? I am surprised they would effect IE 11.

 

Cheers!

 

IIRC you should only have the GP option for IE10, anything above IE10 will get those settings. Give our support team a call and we'll be able to check out if the traffic is reaching the Bloxx appliance from the client which should hopefully help

[3s-gtech]

You'll need Server 2012 R2 to natively modify the IE11 GPP settings. You can however, modify the max attribute in:

 

\\FQDN\SYSVOL\FQDN\Policies\{GUID of the policy in GPM}\User\Preferences\InternetSettings\InternetSettings.xml

 

and set it to max="99.0.0.0", this allows this policy to work on later versions of IE than it can currently. You can also use RSAT on a Windows 8.1 machine.

 

You can leave the old IEM settings in place, they won't do any harm.

[Asomodai]

You'll need Server 2012 R2 to natively modify the IE11 GPP settings. You can however, modify the max attribute in:

 

\\FQDN\SYSVOL\FQDN\Policies\{GUID of the policy in GPM}\User\Preferences\InternetSettings\InternetSettings.xml

 

and set it to max="99.0.0.0", this allows this policy to work on later versions of IE than it can currently. You can also use RSAT on a Windows 8.1 machine.

 

You can leave the old IEM settings in place, they won't do any harm.

 

This is set as default.

 

I did check it again and it was already at max version 99.