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I work for a large financial institution  and part of my job is to support the MAC environment. We are ordering new laptops and desktops, which now come with Lion. After configuring them with the standard network settings including DNS Search Domains, an automatic Proxy Configuration script, bypass proxy settings for specific Host and Domains and applying all the recommended updates from the Apple site, upon first login and subsequent logins, without any specific programs running, a warning box pops up asking for the ID and password to our proxy. Our company requires access is granted to the Internet through the use of AD credential from the Windows domain. It has cause some grief and wasn't a problem in Snow Leopard. I suspect the iCloud client. Since we are a financial institution, we will never use iCloud and would like to remove this totally from the OS. We don't want to take the chance of a user may use his/her personal account to sync corporate information to any external location that is not directly controlled by Information Security Systems. I have searched the net and can't find and resolution. Please advise.
Alan

You say you are getting a popup when you first boot up the computer. I doubt this could be iCloud because that would have to be specifically configured with a login in order to do anthing. There are however various things which might try to connect to the internet on boot up - the clock for example, though this is something you would normally set - evidently something expects to be able to connect but is falling over your proxy server.
I would suggest you ask in the Leopard forum (if that indeed is what you are using) and specifically ask if anyone knows what applications might automatically try to connect on boot-up.

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