Security – How to automatically set IE settings for all users

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I need to alter some settings on Internet Explorer (version 7, but potentially some users may still have version 6).

Doing this manually is fine, change settings, restart IE, done.

However, we have a large amount of users, all of which swap stations on a regular basis, and I'm assuming there is a much more efficient way of doing this than logging into each station as each user.

I'm not a systems admin, but I'd hope there is some command to set IE settings? We could then roll this out automatically.

The settings I need to alter are

  1. Add address to trusted sites
  2. Enable ActiveX controls (under security tab)

Many thanks

Best Answer

You can use Microsoft Tweakomatic :

The Tweakomatic is a nifty new utility that writes scripts that allow you to retrieve and/or configure Windows and Internet Explorer settings. So what, you might ask. Well, think about it. Because these are WMI scripts, they can be used to configure settings on remote computers. Need to change something on a remote machine? Then haul out the Tweakomatic. And think about this: because the Tweakomatic writes scripts, you could do something like run these scripts as logon or logoff scripts. In other words, you could quickly, easily, and automatically configure settings on any or all the computers in your organization.

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