We have been using software distribution to care and feed changes to ActiveX controls for internal web sites for a few years. Now having more of our machines migrated to Windows 7 we want to begin leveraging the ActiveX Installer Service.
All of my Windows 7 Enterprise machines already have the ActiveX Install Service added.
New GPO created, "Approved Installation Sites for ActiveX Controls" configured for one website,https://server/ - 2,2,1,0x00003300
GPO is applied to a group of machines.
GPUPDATE /FORCE is ran on the client machines.
Machines are rebooted, then logged on with a restricted user ID.
Webpage is visited, ActiveX download is triggered.
Presented with a UAC prompt wanting administrator credentials for "Internet Explorer Add-on Installer" for each ActiveX install that is attempted. Both CAB and OCX.
Event Viewer shows an Error for AxInstallService - ID 4100 - "Failed to download control 'https://server/application/include/test.cab' from host URL 'https://server'"
I've tried all combinations of values for HTTPS error exceptions. What I'm using now seems to be accepted to be the lowest security.
I've tried using the http://, https://, short name, FQDN, all with the same result.
Found other threads on this but no answers.
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