Attached to this article are scripts to configure proxy settings for Internet Explorer (all versions). As Google Chrome uses the IE settings for their proxy settings, it can be used for that browser as well. I know there are other, far better methods for configuring proxy settings for clients, but continue your read to see why they were not usable in this particular case.

I ran into a customer where they were still using Internet Explorer Maintenance in their group policies to configure proxy settings for their clients. As a result, all users who got more recent computers did not get the proxy settings, as they were running Internet Explorer 10 or newer. Starting from IE10, configuration of  ...
last updated on June 12th 2015, at 13:02 by lunarg

The ProxyOnce.vbs script configures the proxy settings only once. The script checks this by checking whether the proxy settings have been set up before (through the presence of ProxyServer registry value). If it exists, the proxy settings will not be changed.

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last updated on June 12th 2015, at 13:02 by lunarg

The ProxyAlways.vbs script configures the proxy settings each time the script is run. You can use this variant to force the settings.

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