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How to disable IE Enhanced Security on Windows 2003 Server silently?

Hi Everyone! Axel Rivera again from the IE Escalation team with another IE Enhanced security topic for your viewing pleasure! UPDATE : I have tested the .exe and .bat file that will disable IE Enhanced Security for both Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 TS Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 6:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): IEHarden_Disable.zip

Change in behavior with Internet Explorer 7 and later in regard to CONNECT requests

Hi everyone!   Well, we’ve come across another behavior that some of you are running into so we thought it was time to do a quick write up on the behavior and why it has changed.  The behavior is a little complicated if you are real savvy with Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments

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

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

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

How can I run a “Fix IT” silently?

Hi, Axel from the IE Escalation team again with a quick note on how to use a Microsoft Fix IT to remove IE 8 silently . First, I would like to thank the “Fix IT” team for quickly answering my questions about the tools functionality! When I first learned Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 9:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

Using Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration on Terminal Servers

Hi, Axel Rivera again with information about IE Enhanced Security and how it could affect users when browsing from Terminal Servers. As many of you know, when you first install Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers, IE Enhanced security is enabled. Because Internet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 4 Comments

Understanding Compatibility Modes in Internet Explorer 8

Hi everyone! With the release of IE 8, we felt that providing a little more detail around the different Compatibility Modes might be useful, so here goes! A fundamental problem discussed during each and every Internet Explorer release is balancing new Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:15 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 2 Comments

How to get content rating to work with Internet Information Server 6.0 and Internet Explorer 7 and later

Hi everyone! Shahinur again…  I was working with a content-rating issue recently where we had some difficulties getting content rating to work between IIS6 and IE7. We had enabled content rating on an IIS 6 server and set the rating to zero.  Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:10 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

Microsoft Knowledge Base articles regarding Internet Explorer 8

Hi everyone! We thought it might be a good idea to provide you folks a listing of KB articles relevant to IE 8: How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer 8? (KB957700) When you start Internet Explorer 8, it opens and then closes immediately (KB967896) Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 6:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 7 Comments

“Open as Web Folder” Not In the Internet Explorer 8 File | Open dialog

Hi everyone! David Conner here.  I am a Senior Escalation Engineer on the IE Core and SDK team in Microsoft Support. If you’ve installed the IE 8 Beta builds or the Released build and tried to open a WebDAV share via the File | Open dialog, you may Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 4:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 37 Comments

How can I tell if IE has received a WPAD configuration file when “Automatic detection” is enabled?

Alejendro, this blogs for you!   Unfortunately, there is nothing within the IE User Interface itself that tells you a WPAD file was downloaded for use by IE.  However, we can provide you a quick method of verification…   First, clear any Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 0 Comments

Demystifying the file version information in the Help->About dialog in Internet Explorer

Hi everyone! Louis Shanks again with another blog that discusses a long-known issue in amongst IE support engineers at Microsoft, but confuses the heck out of our customers when they are trying interpret the Version string in the About Internet Explorer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:00 PM by Brent Goodpaster | 1 Comments

Automatic Proxy Configuration Script failing on Vista

Hello everyone! My name is Louis Shanks and I am a Senior Escalation Engineer on the IE Core team. I wanted to share with you a very interesting issue I worked on recently. The problem came in as Vista users were not able to access any external websites; Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 5:00 AM by Brent Goodpaster | 3 Comments
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