Hi All,

Is there a way to pre-configure Internet Explorer Proxy settings and home 
page address for all users on a Windows machine?  Even those users who are 
logging in for the first time?  I tried to setup Internet Explorer via 
Registry but for some reason, the settings are not being used for users 
who logged in for the first time.  The script is intended for setting up a 
new machine for a user, post configuration details.

Do you guys have any alternative, can this be done using WMI?

I have the following code:

#Set Proxy
my $path_proxy = "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet 
Settings";
my $value_proxy = 'AutoConfigURL';
my $proxy = 'http://proxy.acme.com';
set_ie($path_proxy,$value_proxy,$proxy);
 
#Set HomePage
my $path_homepage = "Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main";
my $value_homepage = 'Start Page';
my $homepage = 'http://homepage.net';
set_ie($path_homepage,$value_homepage,$homepage);

sub set_ie
{
    my ($path,$value,$data) = @_;
    my $flag = 0;
 
    $HKEY_USERS-> Open("", my $main_key);
    my @keylist;
    $main_key-> GetKeys( \@keylist );
 
    foreach (@keylist)
    {
       if ($main::HKEY_USERS-> Open("$_\\$path", my $key))
       {
            unless ($key-> SetValueEx($value, 0, REG_SZ, $data))
            {
                $flag++;
            }
       }
    }
 
    if ($HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-> Open($path, my $root))
    {
        unless ($root-> SetValueEx($value, 0, REG_SZ, $data))
        {
            $flag++;
        }
    }
 
    if ($HKEY_CURRENT_USER-> Open($path, my $root))
    {
        unless ($root-> SetValueEx($value, 0, REG_SZ, $data))
        {
            $flag++;
        }
    }
 
    unless ($flag)
    {
        record_log("Set $value to $data\n",0);
    }
    else
    {
        record_log("Not able to set $value to $data: $!\n",1);
    }
}

Regards,
Sam Dela Cruz