We have a lot of users who on the last update and have seemed to manage to install IE 10 onto their windows 7 machines as now causing all sorts of issues. I know that IEM has been replaced in favour of Group Policy Preferences and I have build a windows 8 machine just to create a group policy preference as you are unable to create the preferences from windows 7, thank you Microsoft!
I have created a test OU and got a win 7 and a win 8 machine both with IE 10 for testing. I have created the preference settings, home page etc and disabled using the F keys the advanced features that we do not require as from reading in other post even if it is not ticked, if it is green then it will apply it, kinda defeats the using the tick but it is what it is!
When we do a gpupdate it picks up the default homepage as well as other settings but the proxy settings is blank. I then went back into the preferences I created for IE 10 and checked the connections, LAN settings and the proxy server name is missing but both ticks are showing for the proxy settings and when you click on advanced it shows the proxy server and port details fine. I have been working on this now for 4 days and getting no where to a point were we just roll back any users on IE 10 back to IE 9.
I have also unlinked any other gpo relating to Internet settings on the test OU just in case there are conflicts. Any ideas as where to go from here?