Chapter 30 - Internet Explorer Administration

Chapter 30

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 consists of a suite of Internet tools that includes the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Web browser, Microsoft Outlook Express mail and news client, Microsoft NetMeeting and Microsoft Chat collaboration tools, and a variety of other components and supporting files. Using tools like the Microsoft Connection Manager Components (included with Windows 2000 Server) and the Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (available separately from Microsoft), corporate network administrators can easily deploy and manage Internet Explorer 5 and its components onto 32-bit, 16-bit, and UNIX platform client desktops.

This chapter focuses on the deployment and administration of Internet Explorer 5 and client connections for users of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows NT 4, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, and UNIX. The Internet Explorer 5.01 Administration Kit shouldn't be used to deploy Internet Explorer to Windows 2000 systems (they already have Internet Explorer 5.01) or Windows XP systems (they already have Internet Explorer 6). To customize Internet Explorer for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional users, use Group Policy, as described in Chapter 9. To update Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional users to a newer version of Internet Explorer, use Group Policy's Software Installation and Maintenance feature, as discussed in Chapter 25.

Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 Server updates Internet Explorer 5 to Internet Explorer 5.01. In this chapter, references to Internet Explorer 5 include 5.01. To download later versions of Internet Explorer, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie. To download newer versions of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ieak. For information about using Internet Explorer 5 from a user's perspective, consult one of the books from Microsoft Press, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Step by Step by ActiveEducation (1999).



Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrators Companion
ISBN: 0735617856
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 320

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