Re: Blocking Internet browsing inside terminal sessions.

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Using a fake proxy address is a very crude (but effective) way to
stop all IE traffic to the outside. A company as you describe
should really use the proper tool, i.e. a firewall like ISA server.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 20 aug 2006 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

I did exactly that for some mortgage companies, only to find out
that the "Point" software they use could not contact the
Internet to do loan approval credit checks. I tried making a
hosts file, but that did not work. Normal browsing was killed,
though. I had to revert to letting them have IE and Internet
access.

Gregg Hill



"Infomax" <Infomax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Patrick.

As it says in that posting, pointing the proxy setting to
127.0.0.1 did block internet browsing on TS clients without
disabling the whole IE (needed
for internal applications).

Ted

"Patrick Rouse" wrote:

I haven't tried this, but a post here suggests that it can be
done by setting
the proxy address to the loopback IP:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1261848

--
Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://www.sessioncomputing.com


"Infomax" wrote:


Is there anyway to block users from Internet browsing from
TS sessions? We don't want to kill IE, just stop browsing to
outside. We tried using GP,
but couldn't find any policy which can do that.

Any help would be appreciated!
Ted
.

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