I work in IT at a school and we recently updated our database software, however the web access that the teachers use to do registration does not work too well with Internet Explorer 7 and we're thinking about switching to chrome (mostly due to me hating IE in general) but the problem we have is that users are unable to migrate their bookmarks over from IE due to account restrictions, is there any way to get this working?
A bit of info about the system if it could be helpful;
Almost all the client PCs are running Win XP SP2.
My colleagues machines are running Windows 7,
I use OS X Snow Leopard
and most of out servers are running windows server 2003 (with the exception of 2 one on 2000 server and another on 2008 R2).
The Active Directory Controller is running Windows Server 2003
Best Answer
Coordinate with the rest of the IT department to cure this part: "users are unable to migrate their bookmarks over from IE due to account restrictions" - because as the IT deparment, you set those resrictions.
The favorites are stored in %UserProfile%\Favorites in folders and files, so there may be something you can do there to let users make copies of those files and import them some other way.
Also, if they have some problem with alternate web browsers (IE honors group policy for example aka those account restrictions, other browsers may or may not, don't know) then they should at least upgrade to the newest released IE - which is 8, not 7.