IE - Automatically detect settings

[country73]

Is there a way to retrieve the information from IE on whether the "Automatically detect settings" is enabled or not?
I would like to throw a script together to check this setting across my network, but I haven't been too lucky in locating this information.
I know that I can set / check this setting by manually looking into the "Internet Options", but that doesn't help me with the remote workstations.
2000+ machines need to be checked. W2K and XPSP2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mrmovie]

its held in the registry as a 0 or a 1 some where like

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

 

[tsuji]

This time it might not be that direct! It is an info stored in binary format within the subkeys of ...\internet settings\Connections. The values worth looking into be DefaultConnectionsSettings and SavedLegacySettings. As it can be set per user basis, you would have much more trouble to impose draconnian controls.

 

[mrmovie]

hmm, looks like you are right tsuji, as usual ;-)
i seem to recall setting it programmitically before and was sure it was pretty easy...hoo hum

 

[country73]

Thanks for the input, I really don't want to go in and try to figure all of that out.

I haven't really messed around with GPO's, but since my group will be pushing out our "future" Proxy settings; wouldn't they also be able to modify that setting as well?