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Windows Vista® Resource Kit, Second Edition
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Windows Vista® Resource Kit, Second Edition

by Jerry Honeycutt, Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1696 pages
91h 39m
English
Microsoft Press
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Configuring Windows Update to Use a Proxy Server

Windows Update can use an HTTP proxy server. However, configuring Internet Explorer is not sufficient to configure Windows Update, because Windows Update uses Windows HTTP Services (WinHTTP) to scan for updates and BITS to download updates.

You can configure Windows Update to use a proxy server in two ways:

  • Web Proxy Auto Detect (WPAD) settings are configured. The WPAD feature lets services locate an available proxy server by querying a DHCP option or by locating a particular DNS record.

  • Use the Netsh command-line tool, which replaces the Proxycfg.exe tool.

To use the Netsh command-line tool, first switch to the Netsh Winhttp context. Then, use the show proxy command to view settings or the set proxy ...

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