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May 2009 - Posts

Why does my ActiveX control fail to update in Internet Explorer?

Hello everyone! My name is Vinod and I am a Support Engineer on the IE Support Team. I wanted to share with you a very interesting issue I worked on recently. A user installs an ActiveX control from a web site. The web site is updated with a newer version Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 3:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments

.NET control no longer loads in IE8 in Internet Zone

Hello There!   Veena here to discuss an important change made in Internet Explorer 8 that could impact you. With Internet Explorer 8 it is no longer possible to load .NET controls in Internet zone under the default(medium-high) security setting. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 2 Comments
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Signed ActiveX CAB Packages With Java Permissions Won't Install

Hello there!   My name is Joel Baxter.  I am Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the IE Support Team.  Today I’d like to discuss a recent issue that affects both Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 was uncovered during a recent Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 11:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments

Mixed content and Internet Explorer 8.0

Hi everyone! My name is Anshu. I am a support engineer in the Internet Explorer Core team at Microsoft. Today in this blog I am going to talk about a change in Internet Explorer 8.0 with respect to a setting related to security zone called “Display mixed Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 21 Comments
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Printing improvements within the User Interface of Internet Explorer 8.0

Hi everyone! We have made several CSS related improvements around printing to improve the readability of printed Web content and offer more control and functionality in the print medium. To read more about that, click here . Today, I will discuss two Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 7:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments
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Session management within Internet Explorer 8.0

Hi everyone! Veena again, back with a discussion on session management in IE8. Many application developers expect that they lose their session when they close the IE window. So when the user launches a new instance of IE, they expect that the user is Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 4 Comments

What is this new thing called “Group Policy Preferences” and what does it mean to Internet Explorer?

Hi everyone!   Axel Rivera here with some details in the areas of Group Policy that is effecting Internet Explorer. In October 2006, Microsoft acquired DesktopStandard Corporation, a developer of Group Policy–based enterprise desktop management software. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 1:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments
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