SBSI Microsoft Interactive Training

[Guest]

Hello All,

I have a dilema, My boss setup an IIS server that
provides Microsoft interactive Training. Users were
complaining that they clicked on a training link and
nothing happened, Upon test it he found that you had to
be a power user or administrator for IE to be able to
download and install the required Active X controls and
support files. So they ran a script againt our Active
Directory domain, that made everyone in the domain Power
user. I do not want everyone to have power user rights,
anyone know of a way that the required files could be
push to the machine through active directory or compiled
into an MSI, as far as I know there is now exe or msi
that will install these components.

thanks

DeWayne Bailey

 

[MadDHatteR]

You could certainly make an MSI to "download" the appropriate ActiveX
components - how well the MSI works and what's needed for "installation"
vary greatly depending on the ActiveX object. Most of the stuff I've run
into simply demands a particular file exist in the "downloaded programs"
directory. If this applies to your situation as well, an xcopy may be easier
than an MSI.

Once the necessary components exist in the right places, there is no reason
the user needs to be a Power User. Running the ActiveX object is just a
matter of IE's security settings, which I think can be managed via AD with
the IE .adm file (though I've never looked into this much).

\\ MadDHatteR

 

[Guest]

Forgive my ignorance but how would I do they Xcopy
thing