Enable add-ons in IE 8

[d-taylor]

Good afternoon,

 

On the vanilla site I support, since I put in the domain network, students are no longer able to run the online ALN tests. Looking at the URL, it's a .swf extension. There was a little message appeared at the bottom of the browser saying add-ons were disabled, and if you follow it to the add-on manager the option to re-enable the add-on's is greyed out.

 

I assume this is blocked somehow by group policy: I have looked at Workstation Settings> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> Internet Explorer> Security Features> Add-ons> "Deny all add-ons unless specifically allowed in the Add-on list", which is set to Not Configured, which should allow the users to allow or deny any add-ons. Is there another option which will need configuring?

 

Many thanks,

 

Daniel

[ronanian]

I know this is old, but I just found it while working on the same problem...

 

Did you check local and domain policies, for both user and computer? If so, try explicitly configuring that setting to "disabled".

[d-taylor]

Hi,

 

The problem was there is Workstation Settings> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> Internet Explorer> Security Features> Add-ons> "Deny all add-ons unless specifically allowed in the Add-on list"

 

but also User Settings> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> Internet Explorer> Security Features> Add-ons> "Deny all add-ons unless specifically allowed in the Add-on list"

 

It was set to not configured for computer settings, but enabled on user settings