ActiveX Controls for Standard Users

[Darylrese]

Hi all,

 

Some of our Year 10's and 11's have been making websites in Dreamweaver and embedding flash content to some of their pages.

 

When previewing them in IE11, a message appears saying ActiveX has been blocked and the flash element disappears. For administrators, this runs fine, however no standard user can run it. I have compared browser security and advanced settings between admin and standard users and they match, so the only thing I can think of is that I need to create some kind of GPO to allow these to run?

 

I have seen guides on the internet to enable ActiveX services on a local machine using gpedit.msc, however the same options are not available when creating a GPO on Server 2012.

 

Any ideas how I can get embedded flash files working? The .swf files are in the root of the website folder.

 

Chrome and Firefox are the same.

[mavhc]

What OS version?

 

On a non-fixing-the-issue note, I'm kinda sad people are using Flash in 2015, even Adobe doesn't want people using Flash

[Darylrese]

I know I have told them to stop using it but they continue to do so!

 

Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit, but have tried it on Windows 8.1 64bit too.

 

Back to square 1 with this as I just tried to load it on my laptop (not joined to the domain) and it didn't work on that either

[mavhc]

I wonder if it's using different html to embed the flash than every other page that works uses, check the html code

[Darylrese]

Turns out it WAS something in the code. The flash object had tags which caused the content to not load.

 

Thanks for your help