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Re: BITS Not Using Proxy Server

Subject: Re: BITS Not Using Proxy Server
From: "Narayana Mahankali [MSFT]"
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:25:31 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.backgroundtransfer
BITS only looks at the IE proxy settings of the owner of the BITS jobs if no 
explicit proxy settings have been specified on a per-job basis. If you 
configure the IE proxy settings as autoproxy detection and the proxy 
configuration file correctly returns the right proxy then BITS should be 
able to use it. V5 version of WindowsUpdate required you to configure IE 
proxy settings for LocalSystem to make WindowsUpdate work. But v6 of 
WindowsUpdate should take the proxy settings configured via proxycfg tool 
also.

But I would like to understand the exact problem you are facing. Please 
download the bitsadmin.exe tool from the following website 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=49AE8576-9BB9-4126-9761-BA8011FABF38&displaylang=en

Run the following command from a command prompt and send me the output when 
you get the error:

bitsadmin /list /allusers /verbose

If you want to try setting the proxy settings for the LocalSystem account 
you can do the following

bitsadmin /util /setieproxy localsystem AUTODETECT

bitsadmin /util /? for more details.

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Narayana Mahankali
Microsoft, BITS

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<alexander.jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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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