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I’ll pick silent as my users aren’t interested :) Also there are restart options – Prompt, No Restart or Force Restart. You can have the user pick lots of options, or just have them see the progress, or silent. At the time of writing, it is only 12.7MB so you won’t have to wait long.Ĭontinuing on, you’ll then get prompted for the User Experience.
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The setup will force you to make sure you have the latest install files for IE8 from the web. Next is a nice addition to the wizard – Automatic Version Synchronization. You can remove some if you don’t need them, but I’ve left them all ticked so I can check out all the options. The Feature Selection will then ask which features you want to configure. As I’m only doing this after IE8 is installed, I’ll be choosing ‘Configuration-only package’. Next, you’ll be asked for the Media Selection.

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There’s no option for Windows 7, but you can choose the Windows Vista option for that. You will then be prompted for what OS version you’re building this for. Run the ‘Internet Explorer Customization Wizard 8 program’, and it will ask you where you’d like to put your builds. The rest is basic – and there you go, it’s installed! You’ll then be prompted for an Organization (Americans!) Name, which is mandatory and used inside your packages. We’ll be choosing the last one of course.

Internal Distribution – Corporate IntranetThis mode is available to companies for the creation and distribution of a customized browser to their employees ONLY. External Distribution – ICP (Content Provider or Developer)This mode is available to anyone who wants to create a customized browser for distribution outside their company (e.g., Web sites, ISVs, etc).ģ. External Distribution – ISPThis mode is available to Internet Service Providers, to help them create a customized browser for the users of their Internet Service.Ģ.

The options are (stolen from here this time, Microsoft doco is really good for this! )ġ.
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Once you’ve downloaded the program, you’ll get the options of which license mode you want to use. This will also be for Windows 7, so I’ll be looking at the Configuration-only package (after deployment of IE8). We don’t want to use Bing, and that’s probably a whole other blog as to why, but we feel Google search is superior. The main reason I am interested in this is for Accelerators. Through IEAK 8 you can add and configure these providers for your installer. Internet Explorer 8 supports search providers which offer rich text and image suggestions. NoteBy default all sites in the Intranet Zone are rendered in Internet Explorer 7 mode. Web Slices. You can add Web Slices to your custom Internet Explorer 8 package.įirst Run Wizard and Welcome Page options. You can configure the First Run Experience for Internet Explorer 8.Ĭompatibility View. You can choose if content is rendered in Internet Explorer 8 standards mode or Internet Explorer 7 mode. Here’s what IEAK does (shamelessly stolen from Microsoft here ).:Īccelerators. You can include custom defaults for Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8. There are 100’s of settings in Group Policy and Group Policy preferences for IE8, but IEAK is better for the newer features. If you’re on Windows 7 then you’d really need to use it after since it’s built into the OS already. There are some painful ways to do a lot of this with importing registry keys etc, so this is a much neater and nicer way. The IEAK is used for settings in Internet Explorer 8, and can either be as part of the IE8 deployment, or after initial deployment.
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Today I thought it would be worth having a look at this utility!įor starters, here’s where you can download it:
