@mteget65 .pac files are usually as apart of a URL and you can point a mac or macs to this URL to utilize the .pac file.

If you're doing it this way, you can just set the proxy pac URL in system preferences (network > advanced > proxies) via script. Here is something you can use:

#!/bin/bash



# HARDCODED VALUES ARE SET HERE

autoProxyURL=""



# CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED FOR $4, AND IF SO, ASSIGN IT

if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$autoProxyURL" == "" ]; then

autoProxyURL=$4

echo "[$(date)] Proxy URL is $autoProxyURL" >>"$LOGFILE"

fi



# Detects all network hardware & creates services for all installed network hardware

/usr/sbin/networksetup -detectnewhardware



IFS=$'

'



    #Loops through the list of network services

    for i in $(networksetup -listallnetworkservices | tail +2 );

    do



        # Get a list of all services

        autoProxyURLLocal=`/usr/sbin/networksetup -getautoproxyurl "$i" | head -1 | cut -c 6-`



        # Echo's the name of any matching services & the autoproxyURL's set

        echo "$i Proxy set to $autoProxyURLLocal"



        # If the value returned of $autoProxyURLLocal does not match the value of $autoProxyURL for the interface $i, change it.

        if [[ $autoProxyURLLocal != $autoProxyURL ]]; then

            networksetup -setautoproxyurl $i $autoProxyURL

            echo "Set proxy for $i to $autoProxyURL"

        fi

    done



echo "Proxies All Present And Correct..."



unset IFS

You can run this from Self Service or as apart of your first run script/workflow. You can also set the .pac file URL as the $4 variable in the JSS or just hard-code it into this script. Up to you but I would just use the variable instead of hard-coding. Hopefully it helps you out.

@perrycj that looks oddly familiar

Good to know it still works.

You can also use a profile for this now

@bentoms Yea? ha. It was here when I started but yea, it still works.

Thanks perrycj ! Works absolutely fine! ;-)

I do it via a single entry in Files & Processes > execute command:

networksetup -listallnetworkservices | grep -v "*" | while read a; do networksetup -setautoproxyurl "$a" http://proxy.company.net/accelerated_pac_base.pac ; networksetup -setproxyautodiscovery "$a" on ; done

I have to set autoconfigure and autodiscovery since Sierra gets cranky if both aren't set even though we're actually only using autoconfigure.