Thursday, 21 April 2011

Allow Active Content to run in Files on My Computer - Enabling this setting

In order for Active X and other Active content to run when viewing files from normal file system (eg. C:\ or a network drive)  You may need to enable the setting

"Allow Active Content to run in files on my computer"

This option is seen in the advanced Tab within Internet Explorer Settings

An example of requiring this is viewing Visio Diagrams using Visio Viewer from within Internet Explorer.
GPO can control nearly all the setting on this advanced tab but does not have control for this one.
In order to automate control over this setting we can control the tick via the following registry key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN\iexplore.exe

0 = Allow
1 = Disallow

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