by certifiedbug on July 14, 2010
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The SpringBoard Series Blog
This weeks post is from Carl Luberti, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Internet Explorer team.
To start, I wanted to address that Internet Explorer 8 has over 1300 Group Policy entries that can be configured, which is great for keeping your environment managed and safe. That can also create some challenges in wrapping your head around all of the possibilities, so I wanted to begin with a list of 10 entries that are usually the most asked-about control locations for IE8 from a support perspective. Hopefully, this will give a bit of a “jumping off” point to managing Internet Explorer with Group Policy. It’s one of the most powerful features of using Internet Explorer 8 in an Active Directory domain, so I want to make this easier to use and understand.
Complete Article
by certifiedbug on June 3, 2010
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Interesting sleuthing by Mark, Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft.
While I long for the day when I no longer experience the effects of buggy software, there’s something rewarding about solving my own troubleshooting cases. In the process, I often come up with new techniques to add to my bag of tricks and to share with you in my “Case of the Unexplained…†presentations and blog posts. The other day I successfully closed an especially interesting case that opened when Internet Explorer (IE) crashed as I was reading a web page:
Article and resolution at TechNet: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2010/06/01/3335060.aspx
by certifiedbug on September 21, 2009
in Browser
by certifiedbug on April 29, 2009
in Microsoft
IE Blog
The user experience is really important to us, so we decided to come up with a way of solving this problem and making Accelerators easier and more useful. The solution we arrived at was the category system.
We haven’t previously explained Accelerator categories, so I thought I’d give a brief amount of background, explain how they work, and show how they can make browsing with Internet Explorer 8 more useful and fun.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/04/29/accelerator-categories.aspx
