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ActiveX is a technology framework from Microsoft for content downloading from a network, typically using an internet web browser

ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.

Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX

https://www.microsoft.com/com/default.mspx

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How to create an MSI to install and register an ActiveX Control?

I have a third party ActiveX Control that I want to package up in a msi so it can be deployed and registered via Group Policy. The goal being I don't want the end user to have to click through and install the ActiveX control in IE. I have the Cab…
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How do I uninstall an ActiveX control via Powershell

I have to constantly switch back and forth between two installations of a web app with two different versions of an ActiveX control. Therefore I'd like to script the ability to uninstall this control. Its does not show up in Win32_Product because it…
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How do I change Internet Explorer security settings for all users using Active Directory?

I recently created an Intranet application for my company, but to work properly it must execute an ActiveX control to locally run a program. However, the only way I found for this to work was using Internet Explorer, and setting Intranet security to…
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What's the difference between a normal ActiveX killbit update and one for IDX?

I'm looking back at some old MS security bulletin for distribution to new clients and when I look at downloads for the last set of MS ActiveX killbits, KB article here, under each platform I see links with the term IDX. For instance there will be an…
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Configure Azure AD Connect

I'm trying to set up an domain in Azure AD Connect on a Workgroup computer. The challenge that we have is, we have a dedicated domain controller for the purpose of Azure AD Connect and the other domain controllers are in a non-routable network for…
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MDT windows 7 application installation error on ActiveX

I have a problem with the deployment of Windows 7 from a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Server. The installation of the Operating System works just fine but when it continues with the application installation, then some Applications return an error.…
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How do you manually install an Active-X control to be used by Internet Explorer?

I have the cab file which contains an OCX file, a DLL file, and a setup.inf file. An example of the inf file would be *; INF for whatever [version] signature="$CHICAGO$" AdvancedINF=2.0 …
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Can't load MSMQ COM Object on Windows Server 2012

My VBScript tries to load MSMQ COM Object Set MSMQQueueInfo = CreateObject("MSMQ.MSMQQueueInfo") I enabled Messaging DCOM Proxy Script can't load COM object:
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Active X Control issue on Terminal Server 2003

I have a security camera system which can be viewed remotely via a web browser. It works excellent only with IE 6 and up and requires an ActiveX control "ERViewer.ocx". Some users require to view the cameras via Windows Terminal Server, but when…
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Combining DWORD Values

I'm trying to permit automatic silent install of some internal ActiveX controls using AXIS, as per this Microsoft article. In the article, it states that you can define how HTTPS exceptions are handled, for example, 0 means that all checks must be…
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How to run activex control in Windows 8

I have an intranet application that uses activex. It runs fine in Windows 7 but not in Windows 8. I've used caspol to grant full trust, I've set IE 10 to allow downloading and running of activex controls. I've even tried to run it in Chrome with an…
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Changing the Internet Explorer's setting Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting

We are currently facing a debate regarding the Internet Explorer's setting 'Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting'. I have been maintaining an in-house application that uses Outlook's and Word's automation to send…
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Make unsigned ActiveX run in IE 9

Here is the problem I have: I need a web page to execute an unsigned ActiveX control that is installed (with regsvr32) on my machine I have the following snippet of the code:
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internet security activex problem

Could anybody tell me what can cause such a problem: I have made group policy for users and allowed their IE to use activex and so on. Those users are working on our server. So there is one user who has the same rights as all has, however, when he…
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Configuring Windows ActiveX Installer Service for WebEx

I'd like to make use of the Windows ActiveX Installer Service Group Policy to allow users to install the WebEx client without the need for security elevation from an administrator. I realize that I could add the entire webex.com domain to the…
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