When the Desktop ActiveSync applications "This computer is connected to:" is
in the "Automatic" profile, will try to auto-discover the network's proxy.
If you change it to the "Work" profile and manually enter the proxy
information on the device, the device information will not be overwritten.
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"Ken" <> wrote in message
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>I was troubleshooting an issue where a handful of mobile device users
> (WM2003/ActiveSync 3.8 over serial cable) were unable to access
> intranet/internet sites from PIE. I discovered that the devices that
> were having problems had a proxy server defined on the following
> screen:
>
> http://snice.net/mobile_proxy.gif
>
> This is a problem for me because my users move between networks and a
> given proxy server is almost never valid. My questions are:
>
> How did this happen? Does ActiveSync automatically download proxy
> server information to the mobile device? Is there any way that I
> prevent this from happening?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>