Vista - ActiveX Installer Service

Hello

I'm testing the ActiveX Installer Service (AxIS) and I'm not getting this to
work correctly. I'm currently testing this on a Windows Vista Ultimate
computer member of an Windows Server 2003 SP2 Active Directory domain.

This is what I did:
1. Installed the ActiveX Installer Service on the Vista computer.

2. Configured to ActiveX Installer service to automatic startup and started
the service.

3. Configured a GPO for this computer, configured the "Approved Installation
Sites for ActiveX Controls" setting under \Computer Configuration\Windows
Components\ActiveX Installer Service. I added the following sites:
http://download.macromedia.com
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com
http://fpdownload2.macromedia.com

I used the value 2,2,2,0.

4. I logon with a Domain User account, open IE and navigates to a web page
where I know I will be asked for Shockwave Player.


What happens is that I get a prompt to press OK to run an ActiveX control.
Then I get the "The website wants to install the following..." on the IE
information bar. If proceed I get prompted again and then I get the UAC
prompt for credentials. (The UAC settings are default, they are not changed).

When I logon with an admin account and check the Application Log I see an
event 4097 AxInstallService with the details:
Attempt to install control
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...swdir8d204.cab
failed. The host URL http://download.macromedia.com is not in policy.

Of course this is incorrect as I know the URL is configured in the GPO
applied to the computer, RSOP aslo confirms that.


What is going on? Thanks!

/Ragnar

Hello - can someone (e.g. Microsoft) assist me in this matter?

Thank you!

/Ragnar


"Ragnar" wrote:

Hi Ragnar -
I designed the ActiveX Installer Service. Unfortunately, the policy you're using is invalid. You can't say 2 for unsigned AX controls. I realize that the behavior for authoring policy is definitely not optimal but we were hurriedly trying to make this available at the end of Windows Vista. Here's another post that describes more of the details about how to set policy for AxIS:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/f/?en/library/700f3fa8-452c-4826-bdea-e76e79bee1671033.mspx

You're welcome to send me mail about this if you have further questions.
Thanks,
Chris