Re: Reducing IE security settings

From: Steven Umbach (n9rou_at_n0spam-comcast.net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:46:55 -0600

Hi Andy.

The default setting is medium for the internet Web Content Zone. You can change
this in Group Policy/user configuration/Windows settings/Internet Explorer
maintenance/security - security zones and content. You can configure the
settings you want on the computer you are configuring the policy on or modify
the existing settings.

Also check the settings in advanced settings for "allow active content from cd
to run on my computer" which may also be part of the problem. However I don't
think that can be changed via Group Policy. --- Steve

"andy smart" <anonymus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:cvhs46$k69$1@newsfeed.th.ifl.net...
> Hi
>
> We run XP with SP2 applied on our network - deployed via a GPO from 2003
> server. This puts the security settings for the Internet Zone in IE to
> high - which creates lots of problems with our students not being able
> to access interactive content/mulitmedia/etc etc. We've thought about
> this and would like to reduce this setting to Medium; we know the risks
> but feel that the gains will outweigh them in our context, as we'd be
> forevever adding stuff to 'trusted sites' if we do it that way!
>
> However we've been unable to achive this, either by modifying exisiting
> GPOs or creating our own! Any advice would be gratefully recivied!
>
> tia
> andy

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