We looked at setting up WPAD, and using our Websense Content Gateway to publish the pac file, but that ended up being a major pain, so we went GPO for IE/Chrome. The FirefoxADM and gpo tools are what I had found earlier, and I had also read all the warnings about them not being kept up to date with the new versions of Firefox. I'm going to look at these tools tomorrow, and see what I can do. It may just come down to giving people instructions on how to set their own proxy settings. Once this is pushed out department-wide, we're going to block all outgoing traffic on ports 80 and 443. If you're not going through the proxy, you don't get to the internet.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 5:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Pushing proxy for Firefox > > The usual answer for this is wpad and pac files - see this article for a > gotcha: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995158.aspx > > and this is an intro: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995261.aspx > > Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't understand setting proxies via DHCP - a > definite limitation... > > Kurt > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our organization is moving towards using a proxy for internet browsing. > > Trouble is, we allow multiple browsers (IE, Chrome and Firefox). > > Chrome is easy since it uses the settings from IE, and IE has GPO settings I > can use. > > But Firefox doesn’t. I’ve found a couple of tools on the internet, > > but was wondering if anyone here had hands-on experience doing this > > already, and had a preferred method they’d like to share. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Joe Heaton > > > > Enterprise Server Support > > > > Information Technology Operations Branch > > > > Data and Technology Division > > > > CA Department of Fish and Wildlife > > > > 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 > > > > Sacramento, CA 95811 > > > > Desk: (916) 323-1284 > > > > >
