IE7 - straw poll

[david12345]

Originally Posted by iatkinson

We rolled it out a while ago but we've also had to roll out firefox as well due to cerrtain websites or web based applications not functioning in IE7. I stick to firefox at home.

and mrbusy-2 mentioned "a lot of issues with IE7 and flash, certain websites crash ie7 "
can you both give some examples of these websites please?
thanks

[nicholab]

It does not work on windows 2000 + Firefox rock can't live with out it.

We rolled out IE7 and we had some proxy issues with the way IE7 now enumerates the bypass list. If it's not completely happy with what you have entered it wont apply the proxy settings at all.

And its proxy only here

[Lambert]

We used IE6 at our school.

[Zoom7000]

We deployed IE7 almost as soon as it came out. Infact, now I integrate it into our XP images. I have included the tweaks I use in the images as well, but before this I was applying tweaks using a registry file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes]
"DefaultScope"=-

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes]
"DefaultScope"="{D9086831-1612-4AC3-AB8D-8036EE46041D}"
"Version"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{D9086831-1612-4AC3-AB8D-8036EE46041D}]
"DisplayName"="Google"
"URL"="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q={searchTerms}&meta="

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\wp]
@="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s"
" "="+"
"#"="%23"
"&"="%26"
"?"="%3F"
"+"="%2B"
"="="%3D"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\g]
@="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%s"
" "="+"
"#"="%23"
"&"="%26"
"?"="%3F"
"+"="%2B"
"="="%3D"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]

"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Search Page"="http://www.google.co.uk"
"Search Bar"="http://www.google.co.uk/ie"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]
""="http://www.google.co.uk/keyword/%s"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.co.uk/ie"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001
"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001

Removes Live Search from the search bar.
Adds Google Search to the search bar, makes it default.
Makes Google the default search throughout IE.
Moves the Menu Bar (File, Edit etc) to the top of IE (Like previous versions)
Adds Address Bar searches for Google (g <search terms>)
Adds Address Bar searches for Wikipedia (wp <search terms>)
Gets rid of the annoying RunOnce

[SYNACK]

If you want to deploy via group policy and be able to configure practically everything in the initial MSI there is now a Internet Explorer 7 Administration Kit that will let you build a custom MSI, configure all the defaults and settings and add things like search providers all through a nice GUI.

Used it at a couple of places that I work to deploy a bunch of custom settings and push it to the machines that were previously prevented from updating to it. Works well in my experience.

[nicholab]

I have been told I should not be running firefox on my office machine as it creates a bad example!! (I am the system admin)

[SYNACK]

Originally Posted by nicholab

I have been told I should not be running firefox on my office machine as it creates a bad example!! (I am the system admin)

Why, does your school ban the use of Firefox? We just have it deployed along with IE7 to all of the computers and the users can make up their own mind which one to use.

[dave.81]

I've been looking into deploying OO and Firefox over the summer to all pc's to give users the option although will have to sort out the security side but sure that wont be a big issue.

[SYNACK]

Originally Posted by dave.81

although will have to sort out the security side but sure that wont be a big issue.

If you use this:

FrontMotion's Firefox Community Edition

There are some ADM files that give you control over it similar to IE, not quite as comprehensive though.

[CyberNerd]

Originally Posted by dave.81

I've been looking into deploying OO and Firefox over the summer to all pc's to give users the option although will have to sort out the security side but sure that wont be a big issue.

you'll probably want to see this:
marketing: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Features

the openoffice 3.0 is due for final release in September.

theres also a firefox lockdown howto:
Locking Down Firefox - EduGeek.net Wiki
it's for FF2.0 - 3.0 is already at beta5 so will probably be only a few weeks away.

[NickHoughton]

My work has rolled out IE 7 across the whole workstation network, don't know about servers.

I am running IE8 beta on my machine, though. None of the internal systems seem to be affected but some secure sites, i.e. internet banking kick you out when using IE8. Fortunately, there is an IE7 compat mode.

I use IE 7 at home but when I connect to the work exchange server it crashes when I hit the send button!