Hello everyone! In this blog we like to share some information about the IE Support Diagnostic Platform ( SDP ) utility used by our Support teams. The SDP is simply a manifest to be use by the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool and designed for specific...

Hi everyone! Gary Ranne here from the IE Team with a quick tip on how to use Fiddler to identify codebase objects on a webpage. With the inception of the ActiveX installer service it is even more important to be aware of the location that ActiveX...

As they become more familiar with the benefits and gains to be realized by working in the cloud, administrators are investigating various methods to centralize user data. Benefits By centralizing data, users will reap the obvious rewards of having...

Hello everyone! Many enterprise administrators will want to control how and when IE9 is deployed to their organization through Automatic Updates to give them an opportunity to test their applications for compatibility. In this post, we cover answers...

Hi everyone! Axel Rivera with another blog that provides a step by step instructions on how to load the IE9 Blocker Administrative Template provided with the IE 9 Toolkit that enables IE Administrators disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer...

Hi everyone! We’re seeing another emerging issue around Internet Explorer that we wanted to make you aware of… If you are seeing slow performance within Internet Explorer 8 (opening new tabs, for example), after just recently installing the latest...

Hi everyone! IE Support is seeing a huge influx of issues with weird IE behaviors and failures coming in over the last two days. We are seeing IE crashes, IE simply unloading from memory, and even script errors on web application that have been working...

Just in! A cumulative release is now available for the vulnerability outlined in KB972890 . Details and downloads can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-032.mspx If you have any questions regarding what do...

Hi everyone! Axel here from the IE Team with a quick Group Policy ADM template to help implement workaround described in security advisory 973472 . I am also including the .reg file and .adm templates for both x86 and x64 versions. Please note:...

Hi everyone! Veena here to discuss an issue that might affect developers using Visual Studio 2005 to perform client side script debugging.   After you install Internet Explorer 8, you may no longer be able to perform client side script debugging...

Hi everyone!   Here’s a quick blog to help users and administrators by-pass that initial web page asking you to save your settings after IE7 is installed…   After installing Internet Explorer 7 all users are supposed to save their settings,...

Hi everyone! We’ve had some requests come in asking for an ADM template that would give Administrators the option to Enable or Disable the “Check for publisher's certificate revocation” Internet Explorer option. In any event, here it is. Simply cut...

Hey folks! We’ve received many many requests asking if the workaround mentioned in KB972890 can be implemented via Group Policy. To that end, we’ve put together an ADM template to help Domain Admins roll this out through Group Policy. It’s an “as is...

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to let everyone know that a FixIT is currently available to help users protect themselves against this latest ActiveX Control vulnerability outlined here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx The...

Hi Everyone! Axel again, from the IE Escalation team, with another Group Policy pointer. Recently, I was asked to assist in disabling DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for Internet Explorer. This can be done from Group.  The policy will allow you to...

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...

Hi everyone! Axel here from the IE Escalation team with a scenario related to Security Warning - Unknown Publisher pop-up when executing a file that came from a non trusted source. Please note: The example below sets HIGH RISK files...

Hi Everyone! It’s Bac again with another solution for you… Just in case you are running NGINX Web Server and wondering how to add the ‘X-UA-Compatible’ HTTP Header to the web server, here are the steps: 1) Open the  nginx.conf file in WordPad from...

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...

Hi everyone! We’ve got an emerging issue showing up in our support channels in where IE printing functionality (printing, print preview) fails on the Windows XP operating system. This issue is specific to IE7 and IE8 and we have only reproduced the...

Hey Folks, just a real quick post…   We are seeing some issues coming in with customers wanting to centrally manage the “Safe Search” option that is part of the Microsoft “bing” site: Unfortunately, this option cannot be managed by IE or via some...

Hello there!   I recently worked on customer issue in where a behavior change was noted after upgrading to Internet Explorer 8.  The issue deals with clients certificates no longer displaying in the IE client certificate display list dialog...

Hi Everyone!   Bac again with an interesting issue in IE8.  As everyone is aware, F12 is a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Developer Tools in IE8.  Due to application compatibility reasons, one may want to cancel this default behavior...

The IE Cumulative Security Update for June 2009 (MS09-019) is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the Microsoft Update . Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 969897 documents the currently...

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...