[python-win32] Fwd: URGENT! Changing IE PAC Settings with Python

[Tim Roberts]

James Matthews wrote:
>
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> From: *K-Dawg* <kdawg44 at gmail.com <mailto:kdawg44 at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
>  
> Thanks for any response.  I am in a crisis where one of our networking
> guys moved where our PAC file is housed.  There was a group policy set
> in Active Directory that set the PAC file location in Internet
> Explorer to the new location. 
>  
> However, we have 100 remote centers that have about 3 to 4 machines
> that are not on AD (from before an AD migration).  These machines did
> not receive the update.
>  
> Is there a way I can write a python script to run from my machine to
> jump out to a list

    http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/proxypac.html

If permissions happen to be set so that you can connect to the
registries on those remote machines, you may be able to follow the
instructions here:
    http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/setproxy.html

This might be a good excuse to force your stragglers into the domain. 
There is certainly good justification for doing so.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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