PowerShell Script to Retrieve Internet Explorer Telemetry Data

During the past days I have been busy deploying the Internet Explorer Site Discovery Toolkit to our Internet Explorer 11 test clients. I will write about the deployment of the Toolkit in a separate post. Today I would like to Read More …

PowerShell Script to retrieve content from Internet Explorer ActiveX blocking log

In preparation of the Internet Explorer out of date ActiveX control blocking activities I wrote the below script that retrieves the content of the log stored under LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AuditMode\VersionAuditLog.csv You can download the script from here function Get-ActiveXControlLog { <# Read More …

New IE Group Policy Settings for blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls

As anounced by Microsoft last week on their IEBlog Internet Explorer will start blocking out of date ActiveX controls For managed environments there are updated administrative templates for Internet Explorer to control the behaviour of the ActiveX blocking feature. Although Read More …

Windows ActiveX Installer Service

Managing ActiveX Components within an enterprise sometimes can be a pain. Users with standard user privileges by default can’t install ActiveX components, hence whenever a larger group of users require an ActiveX component you usually end up creating a software Read More …