Question

I’m working in an office and must use http proxy to access internet.

Is there any $PSvariable or environment variable that would tell powershell to use http proxy when requesting an external ressource ? (like http_proxy env var in linux :
http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/
export http_proxy )

I know i can do it for webclient

$proxy = [System.Net.WebRequest]::GetSystemWebProxy()
$proxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials
$web = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$web.proxy = $proxy

, do it for pssessions

$PSSessionOption = New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType IEConfig -ProxyAuthentication Negotiate -ProxyCredential Domain\User

but sometimes i cant find any solution for example how to use update-help |save-help through proxy?

Answer 1

PowerShell (and most other things on Windows) will use the proxy settings configured in Internet Explorer. Set that up properly and it should work; you may need to access a few sites with IE to make sure any authentication is taken care of.