i installed ie10 on my win7 workstation, which I happen to use to manage group policy. in my local PolicyDefinitions folder, I see inetres.admx with a datestamp of yesterday. but in my central store, it has a datestamp of july 2010. which is fine, for now.
when I open gpmc from my workstation and view the settings of a gpo (the html report), i still see the "internet explorer maintenance (IEM)" section underUser Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings, but if I edit a policy I don't see the IEM section. I know these settings were deprecated for IE 10. if I open GPMC from another machine without ie10, I still see that section. again, not too unexpected.
if I go to the "Internet Settings" section under Preferences (which I assume is how Microsoft wants us to handle the stuff that IEM used to do), and create a new object, i'm only presented with
internet explorer 5 and 6
internet explorer 7,
internet explorer 8
internet explorer 9
no internet explorer 10. I would think that if I'm using the new inetres.admx--and it appears that I am because IEM is gone-- that there would specifically be an IE 10 object under preferences. is this expected? do the IE 9 settings handle ie10? or am I missing something?
that's question 1. question 2 is, yeah I probably should not have installed ie10 on a workstation I use to manage group policy for a lot of machines that won't have ie10 for a long, long time, if ever. but I did. am I going to break any of my existing IEM settings if I create new policies or edit/save existing policies from this workstation?