Google Proxy policy deprecated

[Jaan]

Well i missed that one!

 

Just doing some maintenance/spring cleaning of some of our policies. It's Chrome's turn today.

 

I noticed that below policy has been deprecated, luckily it's still operational. From what i understand, i should be using the "proxy settings" gpo now.

 

 

How are you guys applying the proxy settings to chrome now? any examples of the new gpo you've used?

 

I would have thought that those of you using the advance endpoint management (paid google) are doing it that way or a mixture of that and gpo?

 

I'm looking at enabling DPI on the XG to get rid of webproxy all together, but have "safe search" concerns which will require webproxy to be around for a while yet.

 

Cheers all

[jthompson]

We do it by setting registry items under User Configuration. Chrome and Edge then both take their cue from that, so we're not setting anything browser-specific.

 

This guide looks like it covers it, although in addition to setting ProxyEnable, ProxyServer and ProxyOverride, we also set AutoDetect.

 

Doing it this way, you can also make use of item-level targeting to get clever with different proxy settings for members of certain security groups, etc. if needed, all in the same GPO.

Edited March 2, 2022 by jthompson

[Jaan]

Do you find the users are still able to manipulate the proxy settings?

 

just to article says this:

 

One good thing about setting the proxy via Group Policy preferences is the clients are still allowed to manually modify the settings when needed. This is useful if clients are frequently connecting to the internet from outside the domain where the configured proxy setting may not be relevant, or when a site needs to be quickly added to the exception list. The settings will be reverted back to values configured in the GPO when client is reconnected to the domain.

[Jaan]

sorry to answer my own question

 

You can prevent users from changing proxy settings in Windows using the “Prevent changing proxy settings” additional GPO option. This parameter is present in both the user and computer GPO sections.

 

Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components – Internet Explorer

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components Internet Explorer