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Server – Internet Explorer GPO not applied

With Active Directory, you can deploy some Internet Explorer configuration using Group Policy (GPO). But sometime, settings for Internet Explorer are not modified, even if the GPO is correctly applied.

This behavior is not a bug, it’s a feature 🙂 When IE Security is enabled, GPO can’t change configuration for Internet Explorer.
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DNS – Remove WPAD Filtering

When you want to deploy an autodiscover proxy configuration for your clients, you can use WPAD with DNS.
However Windows Server DNS can reply non-existent domain for an wpad domain name request.

DNS WPAD Filtering

WPAD record in DNS


DNS WPAD Filtering

Non Existant domain


This behavior is by default and can be decomposed in two parts:

  • If WPAD configuration is already in place when you install the DNS server, no action is required.
  • When you want to set up a new WPAD configuration after DNS installation, you need to edit the block list on all your DNS servers.

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