This is my first post to this list - just found it today.
I'm having a problem with a W2K3 domain (WinXP Pro WSs) and I believe I've done something to some setting in Active Directory to cause it, but I can't figure out what.
Basically, None of the machines in the domain will run Windows Update because "Your current security setting prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly."
I'm worried that this might be causing other problems as well, for example, Norton AV won't let me run the AV control program.
Of course, any search of MS website or the Internet at large will bring up the canonical answer to this problem: "Under Internet Settings, under security, make sure the running of ActiveX is enabled for the zone you're in."
However, this doesn't fix the problem. I've enabled ActiveX in ALL zones, and I still get the error. I used GPMC to enable the running of ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer for all zones, Domain wide, yet the error still exists.
I've spent many hours just browsing the GPMC tree of the domain, looking for any setting that could be causing this, to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions on where this is configured, or how to track it down?
I'm sure it's in the AD somewhere, since we ran Windows update on the workstations prior to joining them to the domain, but after joining the AD, they won't run WU anymore.
Honestly, I'm at the end of my rope ... any assistance would be a Godsend.
-- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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