by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 28, 2014 | Group Policy Automation, IE Policy, PowerShell
Over this last weekend, Microsoft published warnings of yet another zero-day “memory corruption” Internet Explorer vulnerability to all versions of the venerable browser . Since there is no current patch for this yet, IT administrators are left to mitigate...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 21, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Policy, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
An astute reader of this blog brought an interesting scenario to my attention, and I spent some time confirming it. For those of you running Windows 8 (or 8.1) there’s a neat “feature” that allows your users to circumvent controls you put in place...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 12, 2013 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Policy
[animate animation=”fadeIn” delay=”0″ duration=”2s” iterations=”1″]Get The Most Complete Group Policy Change Auditing Solution![/animate] With IE 11 now generally available for Windows 7 and newer versions, the obvious...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 1, 2013 | Group Policy Management, IE Maintenance Policy, IE Policy, Microsoft-Related
Thanks to fellow Group Policy MVP Alan Burchill for warning about this–apparently if you install Internet Explorer 10 on your Windows 7 workstation, and you also happen to manage Group Policy from that machine, the IE 10 installation removes the option to edit...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 18, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, IE Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on the GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list prompted me to write about managing IE settings using Group Policy. In an article I wrote for Windows IT Pro Magazine in 2011, I talked about the various technologies in Group Policy that you can use to manage IE...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 26, 2008 | IE Policy
There been a long-standing issue, ever since IE 7 was introduced, related to GPMC and the use of IE Maintenance Policy. Specifically, if you defined zone security in IE Maintenance policy from a machine running IE 7, and then tried to view a...
