{"id":308,"date":"2011-12-01T20:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2011-12-01T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:36:50","slug":"disabling-internet-explorer-enhanced-security-configuration-on-windows-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Disabling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration on Windows Server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 2003 and, subsequently, Windows Server 2008 shipped with security locked down by  default.\u00a0 Part of this locking down is Internet Explorer Enhanced Security,  which is an extra layer of protection when surfing the internet using Internet  Explorer.\u00a0 Some people  want to disable it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s OK, Microsoft allows that, and that&#8217;s what  this tutorial will show you how to do.  As we will soon see, we have the  option to disable the Enhanced Security Configuration (ESC) for Administrators, Users, or both.  In this tutorial, we will be  disabling it for both types of user.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Method:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click Start, move your cursor over Administrative Tools, and click  Server Manager<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visualwin.com\/Common\/start-menu-server-manager.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, under &#8220;Security Information&#8221; on the main Server Manager pane, click Configure IE ESC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visualwin.com\/IE-Enhanced-Security-2008\/sm-click-ie-esc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration will open, allowing you to choose whether to have it enabled for Administrator and\/or User groups.  Because in this tutorial we are disabling the configuration for all users, we set both radio buttons to &#8220;Off&#8221;, and press &#8220;OK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visualwin.com\/IE-Enhanced-Security-2008\/uncheck-ie-esc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all!  From the next time Internet Explorer is loaded, IE ESC will not be enabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 2003 and, subsequently, Windows Server 2008 shipped with security locked down by default.\u00a0 Part of this locking down is Internet Explorer Enhanced Security, which is an extra layer of protection when surfing the internet using Internet Explorer.\u00a0 Some people want to disable it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s OK, Microsoft allows that, and that&#8217;s what this tutorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}