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April 2009 - Posts

IEM Policy, “Place Favorites and Links at the top of the list in the order specified below” does not work correctly

Hi everyone! I came across this issue with a customer, very recently, so I’d like to take this opportunity to fill in the community regarding this undesired behavior when using the Internet Explorer Maintenance (IEM) policy outlined in the title of this Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments

Measuring Browser performance…

Hi everyone!   When working with customers, we are often times asked about benchmarking and performance analysis of Internet Explorer.  In the past this has been a difficult question to answer due to so many factors that can come into play when Read More...
Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 3:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments
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Internet Explorer fails to import Favorites where the URL string contains “%” characters

Hi Everyone! It must be “Favorites week” because I’ve got yet another behavior that I need to make everyone aware of when attempting to import Favorites via the IE Maintenance Policy option, “Favorites and Links”. This issue can involve data loss so it’s Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 5:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

FTP and Internet Explorer… What to do, what to do.

Hi everyone! As many of you know, with the release of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft made some changes to how IE7 uses FTP. It’s outlined in this KB article, Separation of Internet Explorer 7 from the Windows shell (KB928675) . Since then, I’ve seen “mixed Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments

Why am I getting Garbled international characters in the name when opening streamed file in IE?

Hi Folks! Here’s another IE behavior that we thought you might find interesting… Scenario: IE makes a request and receives an HTTP response with the "Content-Disposition: attachment" header specifying a filename that includes non-ascii characters. For Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

And now for something completely different… “A Brief History of the Web” by Microsoft

Hi everyone! Some of you may have already come across these viral videos, but I thought I would pass on the link.  Hopefully, it will tickle a few funny bones!   A Brief History of the Web   Regards, The IE Support Team Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:30 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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The second IE cumulative update for this year has released. MS09-014 (KB961260)

Hi everyone! Robert Bugner, one of our Senior Escalation Engineers put this information together regarding the latest IE Cumulative release so I thought I would pass it along to you: Heads up the second IE Cumulative update for the year has released, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments
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