Yesterday Microsoft released the Release Candidate for Internet Explorer 8 that of course contains a lot of new features that I am not going to rewrite here again, as others did so already.
Reading the IE8 product group blog 100 additional group policy settings are being introduced to extend manageability of IE8 through Group Policy Management. The updated Group Policy Reference including the new IE8 settings can be downloaded here and updated Group Policy Settings ADM files can be found here. Also worth reading is the IE8 Deployment Guide.
And finally for those that want to prevent IE8 being installed in an uncontrolled way throughout their infrastructure can consider using the IE8 blocker toolkit. The IE8 blocker toolkit provides 2 methods to prevent IE8 being automatically installed on your client devices. Method 1 consists of a batch file and Method 2 is a group policy adm template that allows you to configure IE8 installation blocking through GPO.
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Alex, the ADM link in this entry is dead. Is there a reasonable substitute you can provide? Thanks, netjustin
Hi Justin, you’re right, and it looks like Microsoft removed this content as they released the final version of IE8. I haven’t found another location where the ADM files can be downloaded separately, but “assume” that if you install IE8 it adds the ADMX files on your local system. On Vista this would be C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions. I will have to validate if this is correct.
Internet Explorer 8 is the last version of Internet Explorer to be supported on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003; the next version, Internet Explorer 9, is supported only on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7 operating systems.”`..”
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