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KB946202 Windows Internet Explorer 7 to be distributed via WSUS February 12, 2008; May require administrator action to manage the rollout

If you are a WSUS admin and you have configured your server to AUTO APPROVE updates your IE6 XPSSP2 and 2K3SP1/SP2 machines are going to get Internet Explorer 7.0 installed.

Read the above KB article for details. NOTE: The original IE7 blocker tool is not going to stop an install from WSUS.

Good luck.

With Internet Explorer 6.0 one could view the certificate information prior to actually navigating to a secure site if there was a problem or inconsistent information within the certificate.

With Internet Explorer 7.0 a new feature was implemented that presents a higher level of visibility to the user for certificate mismatch. The new feature is covered in a previous post, IE7 Security: Warn about certificate address mismatch

If one elects to at their own risk can use the following registry value to enable the older style Internet Explorer 6.0 behavior will be used to warn the user of a certificate that contains inconsistencies.

Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_SSLUX

NOTE: You must create a new key called FEATURE_SSLUX. Under the FEATURE_SSLUX key you can add the following.

Name: iexplore.exe 

Note: Just the iexplore.exe process will use the key. If you want all processes to use the key you can replace iexplore.exe with *.

Value: 0 (Internet Explorer 6.0 Behavior) or 1 (Internet Explorer 7.0 Behavior)

The feature control registry value was found using REGMON during a review of various registry values read during the load of a secure web page.

This is what the dialog will look like when one visits a site that utilizes a certificate with inconstant information if the above mentioned registry key is enabled for Internet Explorer 7.0. 

YES: The page loads normally

NO: The normal Internet Explorer 7.0 security page loads warning about the certificate.

View Certificate: One can inspect the certificate prior to selecting YES or NO.

If YES is selected the Lock Icon that no one actually looked at in the status bar at the bottom of the window appears. You are still given the RED address bar letting the user visually see that the certificate utilized to establish the secure session does have inconsistent information.

IEPEERS opinion is a user should not be navigating to public websites that have inconsistent certificate information and manipulation of the mentioned registry value is not recommended.

Back in Nov 2006 we posted about the Shrink to Page feature of the new Internet Explorer 7.0 printing engine and the fact it could not be disabled, preconfigured, or manipulated via a printing template.

A new Feature Key has been added to adjust the default scaling of PRINTED pages, not PREVIEWED pages.

If you need to adjust the scaling which can be done on a per process level see the following KB article.

Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932538/

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\MAIN\FeatureControl \FEATURE_STF_Scale_Min

DWORD <processname> (value to set to the percentage of scaling desired) Scaling value for the printout..

Valid values for the scaling are 30 to 100. Setting the value to 100 basically disables Shrink to Page/Fit. Note: This does not impact Print Preview.

NOTE: IF you have the current/latest Internet Explorer 7 Cumulative Security Update installed on you system you should be able to leverage the registry setting to adjust the scaling of the desired process. The article mentions Outlook and Winmail but you should not have a problem setting the process to iexplore.exe.

Further testing needs to be done to fully evaluate the impact of the registry options and the change.

Happy testing and printing.

Original Post:

So is there a Disable 'Shrink to Page' in the Vista's version of IE7? The same goes for XPSP2/2K3SP1 versions of IE7.

If there is an interface to 'Shrink to Page' it is so well hidden that we can not find it. If there is a registry key to disable 'Shrink to Page' the key the name is so obscure that a hard core line by line review of a REGMON does not provide any hints at such a value.

So I will say there is no Disable 'Shrink to Page' in any version of IE7 that is currently available to the public.

See IE7 Printing: Print background colors and images for a few other comments on 'Shrink to Page' with the new Internet Explorer 7 print engine.

Build 5600 of the Longhorn beta does not have a disable 'Shrink to Page' either.

Sorry for the absence. I have been working on other projects.

Sometime in July the blog went off-line but it is back now and new updates are on the way.

Thanks Spaces Support team for getting the blog back up and running!!!!

Cheers,

IEPEERS

Enable page transitions is on by default. Web pages that implement the DXImageTransform options for page transitions the transition
will be honored.

UI Location

Tools-Internet Options-Advanced-Browsing: Enable page transitions

Registry Location

Location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Name: Page_Transitions
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0 unchecked in the UI (disabled) or 1 checked in the UI (Enabled)

Link: Introduction to Filters and Transitions - MSDN

The following information is taken from MSDN which shows the how to setup the META tag with DXImageTransform. A list of supported transition methods is listed below.  We recommend that page transitions be used sparingly and only when absolutely needed. There are methods to use the transitions on a specific object on a page versus transitioning the entire page, see the MSDN documentation.

Interpage Transitions

Interpage transitions enable you to provide effects for the entire window as a Web page is loaded or exited. When a transition is applied to a page, it creates an interpage transition where the page's entire content becomes the object of the filter. You can apply an interpage transition to a page when it is loaded or exited using the same transitions described in the Transitions section above. Just as programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint enable transitions between slides, you can provide wipes and fades, and create custom transitions when the content on a Web page changes.

Transitions are implemented with meta tags placed in the head section of Web pages. The meta tag specifies the type of transition, as well as whether the transition should occur as the following page is loaded or as the current page is exited.

Interpage Transition Syntax

The syntax for interpage transitions consists of two parts: when the transition should play, and what kind of interpage transition to use. The following two examples show how to apply interpage transitions upon loading and exiting a page.

<META http-equiv="Page-Enter" CONTENT="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Blinds(Duration=4)" />

<META http-equiv="Page-Exit" CONTENT="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Slide(Duration=2.500,slidestyle='HIDE')" />

Transitions

Barn: Reveals new content of the object with a motion that resembles doors opening or closing.

Blinds :Reveals new content of the object with a motion that appears to open or close blinds.

CheckerBoard: Reveals new content of the object by uncovering squares placed like a checkerboard over the original content.

Fade: Reveals new content of the object by fading out the original content.

GradientWipe: Reveals new content of the object by passing a gradient band over the original content.

Inset: Reveals new content of the object diagonally.

Iris: Reveals new content of the object with an iris effect, similar to the opening of a camera aperture.

Pixelate: Displays the content of the object as colored squares that take the average color value of the pixels they replace. This filtered display can be used as a transition.

RadialWipe: Reveals new content of the object with a radial wipe, like a windshield-wiper blade.

RandomBars: Reveals new content of the object by exposing random lines of pixels.

RandomDissolve: Reveals new content of the object by exposing random pixels.

Slide: Reveals new content of the object by sliding sections of the image into place.

Spiral: Reveals new content of the object with a spiral motion.

Stretch: Reveals new content of the object with a stretching motion to cover the original content. One option resembles a cube rotating from one face to another.

Strips: Reveals new content of the object by moving successive strips into place, like a diagonal saw blade passing across the original content.

Wheel: Reveals new content of the object with a rotating motion, like spokes of a wheel covering the original content.

Zigzag: Reveals new content of the object with a forward and back motion that moves down the object.