The Approved Installation Sites for ActiveX Controls policy setting consists of a list of approved installation sites, which the AXIS uses to determine whether an ActiveX control can be installed.

You can configure AXIS by Group Policy settings, which you can modify by using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) or the Local Group Policy Editor.

The ActiveX Installer Service (AXIS) enables you to deploy ActiveX controls by using Group Policy on computers in an organization. But standard account users cannot directly install per-machine ActiveX controls and they might need administrator privileges to complete the installation. This simple mechanism of distribution and execution provides an easy way to distribute your components to users of your web application. After the control is installed, any standard users can run the control. In that case, Internet Explorer downloads the associated installation package, performs trust verification on the object, and prompts the user for installation permission in Internet Explorer.ĭuring the installation, the rendering page registers and runs the control. The CODEBASE attribute on this element tells Internet Explorer (by using a URL) where to get the control if it is not already installed on the user’s machine. ActiveX controls are installed and run through the HTML object element. ActiveX Control InstallationĪctiveX controls have a simple download and execute deployment model.

This transition is not a requirement for deploying Windows Internet Explorer 8. This type of transition is a common best practice in which IT professionals move their environment to a standard user account. Installing ActiveX controls becomes a compatibility issue when your migration to Windows 7 includes a transition to standard users.

You can create ActiveX controls to add functionality to web applications that you cannot easily achieve by using standard HTML code or a simple script. An ActiveX control is a piece of executable code (typically an OCX file that is packaged within a cabinet file) that is installed and run through Windows Internet Explorer. To develop a secure desktop environment, you must mitigate the threats from malicious ActiveX controls and provide an appropriate level of application compatibility in your environment.

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