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December 2008 - Posts

Just a quick reminder as 2008 roles out and 2009 roles in...

We'll see you all next year! Regards, The IE Support Team Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:35 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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Index.dat: To move, or not to move...

With the ever-decreasing cost per megabyte of storage, many more organizations today are increasing the amount of user data to be stored in a central location. Whether for better administrative control, security or as a means to keep the client workstations Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:02 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

JavaScript Memory Leak Detector for Internet Explorer

Paolo Severini, a developer from Microsoft's GPDE team in Europe has created a debugging tool to detect memory leaks in JavaScript code and is downloadable here . It can be installed as an Internet Explorer band and it is expressly designed to find memory Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:55 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 and what you need to be aware of regarding the Compatibility View sites list

I want to spend a few minutes discussing an issue I suspect may have some folks scratching their heads. So, what is the Compatibility View list and why do you care? You can read up on the feature in this blog .... Go ahead... I'll wait... Ok, so when Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 12:23 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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Content Advisor in the Corporate Environment

Today we are going to have a short discussion on Content Advisor and it's intended use. Content Advisor is a tool for controlling the types of content that your computer can access on the Internet. After you turn on Content Advisor, only rated content Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:34 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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Why does IE keep closing out valid ports on a 200/OK response?

This is a very interesting issue, but rarely comes up and so it's hard to detect immediately. Let's begin... An issue is opened up with Microsoft due to poor performance, in where IE seems to be closing out valid ports for not particular reason. Traces Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:17 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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WPAD detection in Internet Explorer

Hello again, I spent a lot of time recently troubleshooting WPAD detection using DHCP 252 option. In doing so, the information I collected may be useful to those deciding how to implement proxy auto-discovery in corporate networks. Proxy Auto-Disover Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:15 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 7 Comments
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Understanding Directly Accessing Computer Specified In the Address Tab on ISA Server

In the recent months, I have been getting involved in a number of customer cases related to the feature “Directly access computes specified in the Addresses tab” when configuring the Web Browser settings for the Internal Network object. There has been Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:14 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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Security update available for advisory (961051): MS08-078 (KB960714)

Hey folks, we've got a couple of new links that provides a few more details on this exploit: In Depth details... Urgent security update for Internet Explorer IMPORTANT! Please note that MS08-078 is not a replacement for MS08-073 (KB958215). You should Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:25 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 2 Comments
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Microsoft Security Advisory 961051 details

Below are the latest details available regarding this security advisory: Clarifications on workarounds from the recent IE advisory Microsoft is hosting two webcasts to address customer questions on these bulletins: on December 17, 2008, at 1:00 PM Pacific Read More...
Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 9:34 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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