So to summarize this module, there are three ways that you can configure Internet Explorer using group
policy.
There's group policy preferences, i.e. maintenance policy and admin templates.
And of course IEEE maintenance has been around the longest.
And it has now been deprecated on any system where IEEE ten is installed, and that includes all Windows
eight systems because they came with Windows with IEEE 11 and any Windows seven systems that have IEEE
ten or IEEE 11 installed on them.
So what that essentially means is that you can no longer either edit or process IEEE Maintenance Policy
on those systems.
Now, preferences lets you configure most IEEE options.
It it does cover a lot of the things that IEEE maintenance policy did but does not enforce those settings.
So as as I showed in my demo in this module, you can set the proxy setting, but the user can come
along and change it unless you do something about it.
And that's something is admin templates, which does the sort of lockdown part of IEEE configuration.
It doesn't give you as many options for configuring IEEE as preferences does, but it does enforce those
settings.
So for things like site to zone assignments and for disabling the proxy screen and other things, the
IEEE admin templates can be really helpful.
Now you can use a combination of the two, as I did in my demo, to get the biggest bang for your IEEE
configuration buck and I highly recommend that as your approach because it just allows you to sort of
mix and match the two to do lock down in cases where you need it, or to just simply deliver preferred
settings in cases where you don't.
Now, if you are using IEEE Maintenance Policy, I highly recommend moving towards removing it or replacing
it with a combination of the other two policy areas.
And I did show a couple different ways of removing the settings, either on linking the GPIO or using
the reset browser's settings option on IEEE Maintenance Policy.
Now, one thing to keep in mind is make sure you keep around a system that can still edit IEEE Maintenance
Policy, because if you don't, then you'll have you'll be hard pressed to be able to actually remove
it.
So it's important to keep at least one system running with IEEE nine on Windows seven, for example,
and that will allow you to continue to edit and potentially reset and remove those IEEE maintenance
policy settings.