I have them using autoupdate. I think thats why it's not picking up the proxy server. If I updated bby goingto each machine it picks up the proxy server. I've read that document and a few others. They all seem geared towards windows servers. My boss wants me to install AD soon, so I might just end up doing it through AD. On 1/30/06, William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote: > i don't know if this will help but it gets into some depth about how > BITs works and ways to make it behave behind your proxy. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900935/ > > Dave wrote: > > At one of our sites we have most outgoing ports blocked and everyone > > going through squid for web access. But it seems Windows autoupdate > > doesn't pick up the local users proxy settings so we ended up opening > > port 80 to some of the windows update servers. > > > > While searching around I found and option called custom-proxy-server > > but I don't see that setting in the man pages. Anyone have experience > > setting proxy server settings in dhcpd?