For quite some time now one of the most popular posts on this site has been my Google search group policy item that I wrote for IE 7 on Windows XP. I thought it was probably about time to bring this up-to-date and refresh it with a policy suitable for both IE7 and IE8 on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
A few weeks after deploying SCCM to our client machines using WSUS integration no machines were checking in with update requirements. This looked suspiciously like something might be broken somewhere along the line but where as I had double checked all the URLs and everything looked correct…
Recently having installed SCUP and set it up to publish updates using an internal CA I needed to deploy the custom certificate to all the client machines so that they will receive and install the updates correctly.
On our LAN we have about 130+ Windows mobile devices all setup to use ActiveSync over the air. We had a need to configure the “This computer connects to:” portion of ActiveSync on all our client machines. To do this I created a custom ADM file to deploy via Group Policy.
Creating a custom ADM for specifying the search provider list in Internet explorer.
So the problem for today is trying to get an ActiveX control to automaticaly install itself onto the computer so that the user can run the website perfectly each and every time.
