Posts Tagged ‘IE7’

Adding and Managing Default Search Providers in IE7 With Group Policy

Microsoft have posted a KB article to manually create ADM and ADMX files which will allow you to manage the search providers in Internet Explorer 7’s Search Box.
This can be very useful for admins who only want certain sites to be searchable across their domain (such as an intranet!)

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IE7 Group Policy Settings

After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7.
It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers automatically [...]

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Open File Dialog Appears when you Click on Links after installing Internet Explorer 7

After upgrading to IE7 in Windows XP, we found that non-admin users were once again seeing the Open File Security warning dialog box.
Once again, the issue can be resolved by visiting the group policy. Open up the appropriate policy file, and follow the path to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [...]

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Adding Your Blog as a Search Provider

In IE7, adding your own custom search is beautifully simple now that Microsoft have added the Create Your Own to the ‘Find More Providers…’ link in IE7

So, it seems sensible that your blog would want a piece of the action.
To that end, here’s a quick example of my own search provider. As IE7 uses [...]

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Inline Search for Internet Explorer

Inline search
For people fed up with the CTRL+F search function in IE, there’s a handy addon that acts (almost) in the same manner as the Firefox find bar.
It’s now on version 1.3, which has resolved some tiny bugs that used to get me wound up.
It doesn’t integrate as nicely into IE7 as I would [...]

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Making SSL Certificates for your IIS Server

With IE7 on the prowl, I’m having to look at self-signing certificates again to make them work properly.
I found a nice straight-forward how-to on Eric Longman’s blog, which keeps it simple using a Linux box and Windows Server IIS.
Check it out

Although I’ve fixed my certificates, there is still the problem with IE7 showing a big, [...]

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