2008 R2 domain with mostly windows 7 clients running ie8. upcoming project to upgrade them to ie11.
I copied the inetres.admx and inetres.adml files from the PolicyDefinitions folder on a windows 8.1 PC with ie11 and pasted them into the central store.
I created a new GPO that configures "access data across domains" to "disabled" from user configuration/policies/administrative templates/windows components/internet explorer/internet control panel/security page/internet zone.
I logged into four test machines with the same user account.
windows 7 with ie8
windows 7 with ie9
windows 8 with ie10
windows 8.1 with ie11
all four machines show this setting correctly Disabled with my GPO as the winning GPO in RSOP, but *only* the ie8 machine properly shows this setting as Disabled in its Internet Settings. the ie9, ie10, and ie11 machines all have the setting Enabled in their Internet Settings.
full disclosure: there is an old-school Internet Explorer Maintenance GPO in place that sets this to Enabled. but in theory, that GPO should only affect the ie8 and ie9 machines, right? and yet the ie8 machine is the only one getting the correct setting from my new administrative template GPO.
is there an easy way in GPMC to tell if i'm actually working with the ie11 version of inetres.admx or not? some setting that's new for this version?