Caching Settings in IE6 SP1 on XP SP1a

[Guest]

We are running IE6 SP1 on Windows XP SP1a Professional. We have
approximately 5000 users on our network who heavily use 2 web based apps that
have data they enter in real time.

After they enter data into forms and other various pages they do not see
their updated data unless they manually hit the refresh button after every
single time they enter data. I seemed to figure this can be resolved by
changing the caching settings on IE to "Never" instead of "Automatically" for
checking the caching on pages.

This isn't a problem except for the large number of users and I have not
been able to find a group policy setting for this. Does anyone know the
manual registry key at least so I could create a custom ADM file and deploy
it through our Group Policy? Changing the setting manually for 5000 users is
not an option.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I seemed to figure this can be resolved by changing the caching

settings on IE to "Never" instead of "Automatically" for
checking the caching on pages.

Was that a typo for "Every visit.."?

(Every visit... makes sense; Never would mean that if there was an
update in the background your users would have to press F5 or Ctrl-F5
to see it. If you still need Ctrl-F5 after that the problem is external to IE.
E.g. some intermediate cache is responding positively to old
cache-checks without first checking with the host server.
Then you would be using Never to circumvent the broken cache.)

Does anyone know the manual registry key

I don't know off hand which registry value is set when this option is
changed. Try using RegMon monitoring iexplore*SetValue
while you make the change (via an IE Tools, Options dialog.)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle