{"id":4213,"date":"2012-10-10T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/10\/10\/network-considerations-for-tfs-proxy-servers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:58:07","slug":"network-considerations-for-tfs-proxy-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/network-considerations-for-tfs-proxy-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Considerations for TFS Proxy Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just had dinner with one of my buddies in TFS and they pointed out a great post by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/tfsao\/archive\/2012\/03\/23\/network-considerations-for-tfs-proxy-servers.aspx\">Ed<\/a> that didn&rsquo;t make to the team blog: <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured to   <br>automatically receive the proxy settings from your network (this is different    <br>than DHCP) you may have connectivity issues when running the TFS Proxy Service    <br>as a machine account, such as NETWORK Service.&nbsp; <br>For servers it is generally recommended that they use pre-configured IP    <br>and network Proxy settings (if needed). <\/p>\n<p>You can verify this setting on your machine by opening up Internet Explorer \/ Tools   <br>\/ Internet Options \/ Connections \/ LAN Settings.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that these settings are cached at a user level the first time   <br>Internet Explorer (or default browser) is run.&nbsp; <br>If you are using a machine account such as NETWORK Service, it will    <br>never run the browser, and get these proxy settings.<\/p>\n<p>In this situation you will either need to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>     <br>Manually configure the proxy settings for this server (preferred) <\/li>\n<li>     <br>Run the TFS Proxy Service as a user account, login via this account,      <br>and launch the web browser so the proxy setting are cached.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just had dinner with one of my buddies in TFS and they pointed out a great post by Ed that didn&rsquo;t make to the team blog: Enjoy! &nbsp; If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured to automatically receive the proxy settings from your network (this is different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp; Just had dinner with one of my buddies in TFS and they pointed out a great post by Ed that didn&rsquo;t make to the team blog: Enjoy! &nbsp; If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured to automatically receive the proxy settings from your network (this is different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}