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Using Group Policy to Manage the Internet Explorer Popup Blocker Allow List

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Using Group Policy to Manage the Internet Explorer Popup Blocker Allow List

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 configuration. It’s definitely a mixed bag, with no less than 3 different policy areas that can be used, depending upon the setting and the desired effect. In ...

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GPMC report errors related to IE Maintenance

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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 settings report on that GPO from GPMC running on  Vista or XP (and presumably also 2003), you would get the following error on the Report tab:

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