The homepage at a customer which is checking ie7 compatability was complaining that the website wanted to run name.dll from Microsoft Corporation. Unfortunately the error message doesn’t really tell you WHY it needs to run the dll or what functionality you will lose if you don’t trust it. BSimser posts that it is the sharepoint presence “magic”. Looks like the homepage needs to be added to the trusted sites (although it should be already!). A good candidate for ensuring it is set in group policy I think! Update see Stewed Prunes on how to do this.
Update 2 – Be very careful if you do this. Adding the intranet to the trusted zone could cause the issue “The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted” when you try to connect to a sharepoint server and have added the server to your trusted sites. See this post and scroll down to March 13 2006
Month: November 2006
This tutorial on How to secure remote desktop connections using TLS/SSL based authentication is pretty useful. There are two advantages – 1, the data is more secure between the client and the server and 2, the requirement to authenticate before a username/password is entered stops brute force crackers disabling user accounts.
RD Tabs looks like a good tool for easily managing remote desktop sessions ala firefox. Works pretty well and having the toolbar to switch screens whilst in full screen mode is very useful.