Sysadmin Lab

My lab environment and my findings

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In my article i described the Internet Explorer Security zones for sysadmins. One of the most useful troubleshooting steps when a web app was failing was to check which zone that site actually was in by checking the bottom of IE. Why? Because if you’re running GPO to control the zone assignment, the actual config is locked and you can’t check it manually. But what about Internet Explorer 9? Where did this bar go in IE9? Well, they decided to [...]

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In my article on how the Local intranet zone in IE8 worked, I decided to check the DEFAULT differences between the zones in IE8. I skipped Restriced sites since it’s not something I use in my lab and I only documented the differences. Note that I documented the default IE8 levels. Setting Internet = Medium-high Local intranet = Medium-low Trusted sites = Medium Allow Scriptlets Disable Enable Disable Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls Disable Enable Disable Only allowe approved domains [...]

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