Questions tagged [internet-explorer]

Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995.

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Error: Unable to display RD Web Access... after hitting refresh in IE

Just setup a RDS environment with Windows Server 2012 R2 (Broker/WebAccess/RDSH/Gateway/SSL). Everything works, except for when you hit the Refresh button on the browser on any page, you will get the ...
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DNS of site fails to resolve only on IE - 'This page can't be displayed'

On IE (and only IE), our domain coinchat.org fails to resolve. IE displays the 'This page can't be displayed' error. In the IE console, the page is actually 'dnserror.htm' hinting that IE might have ...
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Internet application not honouring Proxy PAC file

We have an app (excel add-in) that is configured to get it's proxy settings from IE (WinInet). This is how most modern apps work these days, they just hook into your system/IE proxy settings and use ...
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(Self-Signed) Certificate revoked in IE mode, but not in Edge mode

I am using a self-signed certificate which is working fine when using Chrome or Edge. Both browsers show that the connection is secure and that the certificate is valid. An application using the ...
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Edge Enterprise Mode Site List: "Error: No URL or invalid URL for EMIE Sitelist."

When trying to configure the Enterprise Mode Site List, the configured list is not being honored. Looking at the edge://compat/iediagnostic page in Edge, the "Effective site list URL" has an ...
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Group policy to check/uncheck "require HTTPS" in Internet Explorer 11 trusted sites list?

When adding a list of trusted sites to Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 7 Professional SP1, there is a checkbox called "Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone". Is there a way ...
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IE8 script error 800704a6?

We have a user who suddenly started getting the following error when trying to open some web apps using window.open from within an embedded web browser in our software The script uses javascript's ...
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Changing Local Intranet security zone by registry

I need to change the User Authentication options on the Local Intranet from the registry but couldn't determine the right value Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\...
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Why is Internet Explorer 11 unable to connect to HTTPS sites when TLS 1.2 is enabled?

Normally I don't use Internet Explorer at all. I use it only in design time for interface tests (development machine and with unencrypted http). Every week I run the SSL Labs server test which says ...
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apache tomcat IE caching problem

I'm running apche2 and tomcat6 both on port 80 with mod_jk setup on ubuntu servers(8.10,9.10). Tomcat is being used for serving jsp pages. I've a small problem with the IE browser which doesn't cache ...
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Allowing "Unknown Publisher" application to launch from IE

We have a 3rd-party system that uses an XBAP app, which is launched from Internet Explorer. More often than not, when it starts up, it displays an "Unknown Publisher" warning: To even run the ...
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How to view htm file that with vbscript without IE?

It's audit time here again, and as per usual, I remote into servers, and run gpresult /h to generate a human-readable RSoP to include in my audit evidence. Unfortunately, the security guy says that I ...
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IE11: How to check into which zone a URL falls?

I have applied several internet explorer settings via group policy. Especially a long list of URLs in the "site to zone assignment" setting. However it seems that one URL still falls into the "...
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Internet / proxy problems Internet Explorer (PAC file)

we have some internet/proxy problems in our network since 2 weeks. Users are getting sporadic errors "This page can't be displayed" in Internet Explorer 11 when trying to access websites - but not the ...
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Many resource-hogging iexplorer.exe processes on all workstations

Suddenly all our workstations are having an issue with sluggish performance. Inspecting task manager, there is a common culprit: several iexplorer.exe processes exist (~7 on average, but varies with ...
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Will IE send a Kerberos ticket if not in a Domain?

I'm trying to test a Kerberos-based SSO solution for our Java app. Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows domain at my disposal to do so. I read about the ability to integrate Windows with a standalone,...
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Migrate IE favourites from windows server 2008 to Edge on windows server 2016

There is a windows server 2008 with users who can configure their favourites in IE. A migration to windows server 2016 is imminent and I'd like to migrate these favourites for each user. I've tried ...
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How to find out IE's Proxy settings for all users on a server (i.e. Windows 2008R2)?

I am trying to pull this information with the following below powershell script but it is only fetching the information for my profile and not all the users that have logged in to the server. Am I ...
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Why is my Internet Explorer group policy ignored?

In light of the recently discovered MSHTML vulnerability (and because it's a good idea in general), I want to disallow downloading of ActiveX components via group policy. However, it appears that my ...
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Install Internet explorer on Server 2019 Standard

I am running server2019 standard and Remote Desktop services. I have installed Quickbooks enterprise 2021 which requires IE 11. Someone uninstalled IE11 from the server and now I cant seem to put it ...
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"Allow Sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer Mode" is missing in Edge Version 90

I'm trying to use EDGE to browse some legacy apps using IE mode, but this setting in Default Browser Settings is missing in EDGE browser settings. How do i enable this setting? its not greyed out, its ...
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How to set the Internet Explorer Home Page via GPO?

I need to set the default home page for the entire domain via GPO. Where is the IE Home Page Policy located?
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Internet Explorer 9 & 10 Group Policy Preferences missing

I have a single Domain Controller network (Windows Server 2008 R2, running on the 2003 Forest/domain level), with the clients currently migrating from WinXP Pro to Win7 Pro. I Need to control the ...
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Configuring ELB to redirecting Internet Explorer traffic to a specific page

I want to redirect Internet explorer to a specific page, which says: "IE not supported" I have configured the following rule in my Application Load Balancer to check the Browser header and ...
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Cannot detect Browser when using Elastic Load Balancer

Note: I have asked the same question on StackOverflow but I though it might be more relevant to this forum. I want to prevent users from using my website in Internet Explorer. What I want to do is to ...
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Automatic Proxy Configuration Script - Lab Setup Process

I have a requirement to set a test machine which utilises automatic proxy configuration using a WPAD.DAT file. This is to replicate a customer environment (that we can't use for testing) so we may ...
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Internet Explorer not working after establishing a VPN connection

I have a problem which is constantly appearing on each Windows 7 computer I'm using whenever I establish a VPN connection. The problem appears only if using a proxy server for Internet access; it ...
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Apache2 serves MS Publisher file, MS Edge/IE opens it as text

I have a Microsoft Publisher file. It works just fine. I have it on Linux, in /var/www/html. Apache2 is running with the default configuration. I try to open it from Windows in MS Edge and IE. It ...
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What security settings in IE prevent running autoit form submit macros?

I'm trying to automate logging in to Amazon Web Services with autoit on a fairly hardened windows machine. I can run a script as admin on the box and it works just fine, but when I go in as a user ...
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Why is SiteToZoneAssignment GPO applying, but sites not appearing in IE

We have a Windows server 2012 R2 remote desktop farm, which we have applied a GPO to, to control site to zone assignments. This was working fine up until recently, but just lately, we have found that ...
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Serving from different directories for Internet Explorer

We have two different versions of our website - one for older versions of Internet Explorer (7 and 8), and one for all other browsers. (arguments around JS feature detection have been made, but we ...
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NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID in Chrome but not in IE

I just used our internal Windows-CA to create a certificate for our internal server "hdl-diamant". When calling the website using "https://hdl-diamant", I do get "...
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Remove Proxy Setting in Batch File

I want to create a batch file to remove Internet Explorer proxy settings check box. Not to grey it out - but to remove IE from using proxy settings. Anyone got any scripts for me?
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a conflict with Internet Explorer kiosk mode and the Windows 10 taskbar

I have a silly little problem I'm trying to solve: I'm using Windows 10 Pro on an AD Domain. If I launch Internet Explorer in kiosk mode (%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe -k) either ...
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Internet Explorer 8 - TLS Fatal Error Close Notify - Oracle HTTP - Server Apache 2.2.22.0

I applied the POODLE fix for Apache via SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 in the ssl.conf file for our Apache server but am having issues with the CAC Client authentication via SSLVerifyClient require. I ...
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Feedback on Using Chrome on RDS Hosts

How well does Chrome work on RDS hosts? I'm looking for feedback on replacing Internet Explorer 11 with Chrome in an RDS environment. I have a system that uses Internet Explorer 11 in a terminal ...
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Internet Explorer sometimes only prints the first page

We have a client who prints several pages from a web site. Most of the time it works fine. However, occasionally, Internet Explorer 8 only prints the first page, even when All Pages is selected. Again,...
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GPO Policy 'Applied' but not taking effect unless gpupdate /force is run

I do not yet have a 2012 DC or a Win 8 machine to manage IE 10 / 11 settings via GPMC. So I have created a policy with a registry setting so that users in a specific OU get specific .PAC settings in ...
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Unable to Use Imported SPC Certification To Sign VBA File

I have a tricky issue, I'm trying to install a certificate to sign a VBA file. I've purchased a third party certificate and followed the instructions here to install it and sign my VBA file with it. ...
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HAproxy http to https redirect won't work with Internet Explorer

I have a problem with HAproxy, it won't redirect HTTP to HTTPS if using Internet Explorer. It just tells me that this webpage doesn't exist if I'm trying to connect over http. My configuration (real ...
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Is Internet Explorer 11 supported on Windows Server 2019?

I know IE 11 is supposed to be supported until 2025. Has anyone confirmed if it's possible to run IE 11 (including legacy web apps with ActiveX) in Windows 2019? Or do you need stick to the older ...
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Add Bookmark to IE automatically for new users on a computer

When I set up a PC, I would like to be able to have it so when anyone logs into that PC from the domain a couple of IT bookmarks will be in IE. I read I can do this with a Domain-Level group policy, ...
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RDP not opening a second time

So I am testing a Citrix based vm farm that is publishing Windows 10 Enterprise desktops. Everything works with the exception of an RDP link on our intranet page. All of our physical desktops can ...
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GPO Preferences Not Applied to IE-11

Windows Server 2016 RDS setup. Using GPO to set preferences for IE-11 for the RDS users. (User Settings > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Internet Settings). The settings I want to apply is ...
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Using Internet Explorer to invoke PHP/CURL for long running data API causes Apache 2 server to freeze and require restart

I'm running a PHP program that works fine as long as it's not invoked by a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, after which it spawns the below processes, locks up Apache 2 and requires a restart ...
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Internet Explorer 11 not working with HTTPS (Let's Encrypt)

I had an application that was running with HTTP in all the browsers with no problem. Then I configured an Let's Encrypt SSL certificate using win-acme v1.9.10.1. Find the link below: https://github....
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IE8 HTTPs Download Issue

I have a problem with a system I develop related to IE8 downloading over SSL (ie on sites using https://...) and is described on this MS kb article. We use the HTTPCacheability.NoCache option as the ...
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Using runas with IE8

We currently run IE6. Our helpdesk people routinely start admin sessions of Windows Explorer by Right-clicking the IE6 shortcut on the quicklaunch bar, Selecting "Run as...", Entering admin account ...
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how to stop future internet explorer updates on windows server 2012 R2

Is there a way to disable future updates of Internet Explorer on a windows server 2012 R2 system? In the IE11 -> "About Internet Explorer" window there is no check box anymore for "Install new ...
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Looking up group policy for IE11 indexedDB

We have a client that uses our application via IE11. All of our clients are working fine except one. With this client, when they bring up IE11, indexedDB is not available. We quadruple checked ...

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