Question : Using Group Policy to set Proxy Settings in the office; turn it off outside the office

We have a proxy server we would like to require users to use (except for a few sites.) I would like to use a Group Policy setting to push the proxy server and exceptions to the users but have an issue when it comes to the laptop users. When they are in the office, I want them to hit the proxy. Outside the office, this needs to be turned off.

I had hoped for a setting similar to the Domain and Standard Profiles for the Firewall settings in Group Policy where the domain profile is applied if the system detects the AD controller at startup.

I have tried using a proxy.pac file, but the WebWasher becomes incrediably slow when the proxy.pac file is used.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer : Using Group Policy to set Proxy Settings in the office; turn it off outside the office

Problem solved:

I added mail.domain.com, autodiscover.domain.com, and the address of our Access server to our proxy exemption list (Internet Explorer settings). Once we did that, all Autodiscover issues are resolved, including free/busy data and Out of Office assistant.

Everyone in the organization is reporting success now that we've pushed it out via GPO.

Thanks for the input on this, I appreciate it.