Corporate
Administrator
How to Use the IEAK Profile Manager
If you're a corporate administrator, the IEAK Profile Manager can help you maintain your versions of Internet Explorer by providing quick and easy access to system settings. You can use the Profile Manager to create, save, and load .ins files. You can configure user options from a central location.
For an illustration of this process, see How Automatic Configuration Works.
You can use an automatic configuration URL to automatically point your users' browsers to the IEAK Profile. You can either specify the .ins file, or create and specify an Active Server Page (.asp) file that generates an .ins file automatically.
You can also specify script files in .js, .jvs, or .pac format that enable you to configure and maintain advanced proxy settings. If you specify URLs for both automatic configuration and automatic proxy (auto-proxy), the auto-proxy URL will be incorporated into the .ins file. The correct form for the URL is http://share/test.ins.
In the Internet Explorer Customization wizard, you are prompted for the automatic configuration and auto-proxy script URLs.
To enable automatic configuration
- Select the Enable automatic configuration check box.
- In the Auto-configure URL (.ins) file box, type the URL for the .ins or .asp file you want.
- In the Auto-proxy URL (.js) or (.pac) file box, type the URL for the auto-proxy script.
To run the IEAK Profile Manager
- On the Start menu, point to Programs.
- Point to Microsoft IEAK, and then click IEAK Profile Manager.
- On the File menu, click Open, and then open the .ins file from your customized browser package. By default, the .ins file is named Install.ins.
To work with policy files for a different operating system, click the option you want on the Platform menu.
- To modify settings, click Wizard Settings or System Policies and Restrictions to display the categories of settings.
- On the left, click each category you want to change, and then on the right, change the options you want.
- On the File menu, click Save.
Type the path to your .ins file, the URL to your .cab files, and the names of your .cab files if they differ from the defaults provided.
Notes
- Because 16-bit and UNIX versions of the browser do not support certificates, automatic configuration files are not signed. Therefore, you should make sure that your automatic configuration Web site has restricted access.
- The default location for saving the .ins file is <build directory>\Ins\operating system\language (for example, Build1\Ins\Win32\En\). If you want to move the file, you must make sure to specify the correct path to your .cab files, put the Ie5sites.dat file in this location, and make sure the download sites you specified are correct.
- If the version number of the .ins file doesn't change, new .cab files will not be downloaded. The version number consists of the date the .ins file was modified and the number of times the file has been revised.
- Automatic configuration is not available for Outlook Express on the Windows 3.x operating system.
- If you are familiar with .adm files, you can use the policies and restrictions you have set up in your own .adm files by clicking Policy, and then clicking Import.
If you are using automatic configuration, and you are supporting both Internet Explorer 5 and Internet Explorer 4.0 with the same automatic configuration file, some settings that differ between the versions will not be configured on Internet Explorer 4.0.