How to setup automatic proxy configuration via pac file windows server core r2

PROXYwindows-server-2008-r2windows-server-core

I'm looking for the syntax to setup windows server core R2 to take its proxy configuration from a script(.pac file)

for example in my LAN settings dialog:

Automatic configuration
use automatic configuration script(checked)
address http://foo.bar/proxy.pac (text box)

any thoughts on how I can set this netsh doesn't appear to support this unless I'm missing something.

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You can simply export registry based on this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819961/EN-US

Here is simple script

REGEDIT /e c:\proxysetup.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings"

After that you may remove rest of file content after section

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

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This is what I use (a vbs I found):

DIM sKey,sValue,binaryVal
Dim oReg
Dim status
Set oReg=GetObject( "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")    'For registry operations througout

Const HKCU=&H80000001

status = "off"
sKey = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections"
sValue = "DefaultConnectionSettings"

oReg.GetBinaryValue HKCU, sKey, sValue, binaryVal

select case lcase(status)
  case "on"    binaryVal(8) = binaryVal(8) OR 8        'Force Autodetect on
  case "off"    binaryVal(8) = binaryVal(8) XOR 8        'Force Autodetect off
  case "show"    wscript.echo "Automatically detect is set to " & ((binaryVal(8) and 8) = 8)
  case else    wscript.echo "Invalid parameter - IEautomaticallydetect  on, off or show"
end select

if lcase(status)="on" or lcase(status)="off" then oReg.SetBinaryValue HKCU, sKey, sValue, binaryVal

Works flawlessly for me, I call it from a .cmd

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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/neilhut/archive/2007/11/06/managing-local-policy-on-a-windows-server-core-installation-set-to-workgroup-config.aspx

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