Difference between proxy.pac and WPAD.dat

[Chinmayjoshi25]

Hello Folks,

Require your help to understand and deploy better solution. Currently, we are using proxy.pac file to distribute the proxy setting and it is configured via GPO on the client machines.

Actually, proxy.pac file is kept on central location and it is getting copied to windows folder on client machine through batch file and In GPO we have specified c:\windows\proxy.pac path and assign batch file as login script.

Issue : IE 11 and above having browsing issues as it does not support pac file. As a workaround, we have stopped IE updates and applied legacy registry settings where IE is updated.

Now management has decided to deploy web proxy. Here we are planning publish proxy.pac file through IIS by creating website and adding require MIME settings.

I searched on internet and found WPAD concept. It is not yet tested but just want to know which one is better to deploy.

Publishing proxy.pac through IIS or configure windows server as WPAD server and publishing through DNS record ?









Thanks, Chinmay.

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