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Re: BITS Not Using Proxy Server

Subject: Re: BITS Not Using Proxy Server
From: "Axel Mueller"
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:17:36 +0200
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.backgroundtransfer
Same Problem here, it's imho a bits2.0 bug. It seems you have to give the 
proxy for the system account (which is used for windows update) manually to 
bits.. :(

Axel


<alexander.jason@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:1118850669.407174.132840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> I work for a large University and I'm having some issues with BITS as
> it relates to Windows Update.
>
> When the students come into our dorms at the start of the school year
> they are assigned to a restricted vlan on our network.  This allows
> them get get software that the university provides before they get
> connected to the real network.  Like most universities all of our
> address are in a public space.
>
> One of the thing that we want to do is allow people to run windows
> update before the connect to the real network to confirm they have all
> the necessary patches. So do do this we've setup a MS Internet
> Acceleration Server which seems to be working the way we expect it too.
> The problem I'm having is that BITS never  seems to understand that
> there is a proxy server and it needs to use it.  I can see from my
> packet captures that BITS is infact trying to directly connect.
>
> Here is what I have tried so far to get BITS to see the proxy
>
> 1. Setup a manual proxy config in IE
> 2. Setup a proxy.pac file and served it to the machine
> 3. Did a proxycfg -u to import the IE settings in proxycfg
>
> I've seen some other suggestions but they involved editing the registry
> and other hacks.  I don't want to do with when student machines.
> Ideally I would like to push a proxy.pac config and have both IE and
> BITS work.
>
> Can anyone give me any suggestions.
> 



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