Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 Download and Release Documentation

How to use these notes Before you install IEAK 7 After you install IEAK 7 What is new in IEAK 7 What is not available in IEAK 7 Known issues Copyright How to use these notes This document contains installation and overview information, and a list of known issues for Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 (IEAK 7). In addition to these notes, you should read the IEAK guidelines. An IEAK Help file (IEAKHelp.chm) is also installed with IEAK 7. Corporate administrators, Internet service providers (ISPs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), independent software vendors (ISVs), and Internet content providers (ICPs) can use IEAK 7 to deploy, customize, and manage Internet Explorer 7 for their users or customers. In particular, if your organization does not use the Active Directory directory service, you should use IEAK to customize Internet Explorer for your organization's unique needs. IEAK 7 is similar to Internet Explorer Administration Kit 6 (IEAK 6) with Service Pack 1 (SP1), except for the differences mentioned in this document.   Important For information about other international editions of IEAK, visit the worldwide sites page. Top of Page

Download IEAK 7 is available for download in the following languages: Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish

Before you install IEAK 7

Installation requirements

• You must have Internet Explorer 7 installed on your computer in order for IEAK 7 to run successfully.
• You can install this version along with an existing installation of IEAK 6 with SP1 on platforms that support that configuration.
• We recommend that you install IEAK 7 on a computer that is running the same operating system as the destination computer for which you are creating a package.

Supported operating systems

With this version of this product, you can customize and install Internet Explorer 7 on computers that are running the x86-based, x64-based, and Itanium-based versions of Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

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After you install IEAK 7

To start using IEAK

1. Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Microsoft IEAK 7.
2. Then, do one of the following:
• Click Internet Explorer Customization Wizard to start creating a custom package.
    Note
  You can also open Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard from the command line by typing ieak7wiz.
• Click IEAK Profile Manager to edit existing settings.
• Click IEAK Help to access the IEAK 7 product documentation (IEAKHelp.chm).

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What is new in IEAK 7

The following are new features in this version of IEAK 7:

• Ability to use the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard or IEAK Profile Manager to customize:
• Web feeds. You can add Web feeds to your customized browser.
• Multiple home pages. You can add multiple home pages, which use the new tab-browsing feature in Internet Explorer.
• Search providers. You can make multiple search providers available to your users.
• Corporate installation options. You can specify whether the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is updated and run.
• Anti-phishing. You can specify whether your users can manage the new anti-phishing filter in Internet Explorer.
• Ability to create a single package that can automatically configure an existing installation of Internet Explorer 7 or install and configure Internet Explorer 7, depending on whether Internet Explorer is already installed.
• Improved Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard pages and text designed to provide a better experience than in previous versions of IEAK.
• Improved access to Auto-Complete and Feeds discovery settings that are now available on the Additional Settings page in the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard and IEAK Profile Manager.
• A simplified Automatic Version Synchronization page in the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard.

As of October 2007, IEAK 7 now includes the Windows Installer (.MSI) to make Internet Explorer 7 enterprise deployment easier if you’re using Active Directory. To get the Windows Installer, customers need to download the updated IEAK 7.

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What is not available in IEAK 7

Partly because of changes in Internet Explorer, you will not be able to perform the following tasks with IEAK 7 that you were able to perform with earlier versions of IEAK:

• The signing functionality is no longer available as a part of the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard. Instead, you should include signed components while creating a package and use tools available on the Web to sign the final distribution package. More details are available in the product documentation (Ieakhelp.chm).
• You cannot change the installation directory for Internet Explorer on your users' computers.
• You cannot customize and package Outlook Express and Windows Media Player.
• You cannot customize the toolbar background bitmap for Internet Explorer.
• You cannot create custom logos or animated bitmaps for Internet Explorer.
• You cannot customize the title bar text and custom logo bitmaps for the Internet Explorer Setup Wizard.
• You cannot install multiple components of Internet Explorer from the Automatic Version Synchronization page in the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard. Internet Explorer is now installed as a single component.
• You cannot use the Download media option. This option and the Component Download Sites page have been removed.
• You cannot customize options for the Microsoft Update Web site.
• The Internet Connection Wizard is not supported on the Windows Vista™ operating system. However, ISPs can still use IEAK 7 to customize the Internet Connection Wizard for Internet Explorer 7 on computers running Windows XP with SP2 or Windows Server 2003.
• User rights deployment is no longer required for Internet Explorer Setup and has been removed from the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard.
• The toolkit provided with IEAK 7 has been updated and the following files have been removed: Fontinst.exe, Fontinst.inf, Ie55urd.exe, Instmsiw.exe, Welc.exe, Filewiz.exe, Cert2spc.exe, Chktrust.exe, Dumpcert.exe, Makecert.exe, Setreg.exe, Tour.exe, Cdsetup.exe, Isk3ro2.exe, Animbmp.exe, Makebmp.exe, Bitedit.exe, Paledit.exe, Inetlogn.exe, Inetlogn.inf, Netlogon.exe, Installx.exe

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Known issues

The following are the known issues with this product:

• Starting in October 2007, the Windows Genuine Advantage validation check was removed from the Internet Explorer 7 installation executable. The updated IEAK 7 released in English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese languages.  Additional localized Internet Explorer 7 installation executables will be released for download as they become available.  If you use IEAK 7 to customize an internationalized Internet Explorer 7 version before the new Internet Explorer 7 installation executables (without the WGA check) are available, the customized package will contain the Windows Genuine Advantage validation check. To learn more, read the Knowledge Base article “.MSI in Active Directory environments”.
• The Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard does not work with user names that use double-byte character sets - for example, Chinese and Japanese. To fix this, you need to set the TEMP and TMP environment variable to a path that does not use these characters (for example, C:\temp). To do this, open System Properties and on the Advanced tab, click Environmental Variables. Then, click Edit and modify TEMP and TMP to a directory that is not in the user profile.
• Content ratings and the following groups of settings under the Corporate Restrictions node on the Additional Settings page do not work on computers that are running Windows Vista. That is, if you set one of these settings, the setting will not be retained on computers running Windows Vista. This is because IEAK packages do not have sufficient user rights to set these policies and restrictions.
• Internet Property Pages
• General Page
• Connections Page
• Content Page
• Programs Page
• Browser Menus
• Favorites and Search
• Explorer Bars
• Persistence
• Dial-Up Settings
• Security Page
• Software Updates
• Startup Restrictions
• Toolbars (Machine)
• Temp Internet Files (Machine)

If you are using the IEAK 7 to package Internet Explorer 7 in other languages, the settings on the Additional Settings page (which appears at the end of the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard) will always appear in English, irrespective of the language of IEAK 7.

• When you add feeds using the Favorites, Links and Feeds page of the Internet Explorer 7 Customization Wizard, you can only add feeds underneath a single folder. If you create two levels of folders and create a feed under the subfolder, then the feed will not work.
• The organization name that you specify when installing IEAK 7 should be 15 characters or less. If you specify a name that is longer than 15 characters, the package you create will have 'UNKNOWN PUBLISHER' in the place of your organization's name. To work around this issue, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75695.
• When you create a custom component, the file name needs to be 16 characters or less, or you will not be able to install the component. If it is longer than 16 characters, the installation will fail but you will not receive an error.
• If IEAK 7 is corrupted, you should uninstall and then reinstall IEAK instead of using the Repair option. If you use the Repair option, then the installation will default to the ISP mode, regardless of the previous mode.

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