IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit Available for Windows 7
Business and organizations that want to manage their own update schedule can use the IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 10. This Blocker Toolkit—like its predecessors for IE9, IE8, and IE7—is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. While we encourage all customers to upgrade their browser to the latest version as quickly as possible, this approach lets organizations control when they are ready to deploy IE10 to their Windows 7 users. All other customers with Windows Update not using the toolkit will be automatically upgraded from IE9 to IE10.
The IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit can be used to prevent Internet Explorer 10 from being automatically installed on users’ Windows 7 machines when it is available via Automatic Update. This Toolkit has no expiration date and is configured either by running the registry file on the client machine or by deploying Group Policy in domain joined environments. The toolkit also provides an unblock procedure that allows IE10 to be installed through Automatic Update.
When IE10 Release Preview is installed on Windows 7, the IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit does not block automatic deployment of IE10. This ensures that users running IE10 Release Preview continue to receive the latest security fixes. Additionally, the toolkit does not prevent users from manually installing IE10 from the Microsoft Download Center.
There are different registry keys used to block or unblock automatic delivery of IE10 and IE9. If the IE9 Blocker Toolkit was previously used to block IE9 from being offered as an important update, use the IE10 Blocker Toolkit in addition to the IE9 Blocker Toolkit to prevent both IE9 and IE10 from being offered via Automatic Update.
Organizations that use an update management solution such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) do not need to deploy the IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit. WSUS and SCCM allow organizations to fully manage deployment of updates released through Windows Update, including IE10.
— Kevin Luu, Program Manager, Internet Explorer
Comments
Anonymous
January 30, 2013
So does this mean IE10 is almost out of the preview stage?Anonymous
January 30, 2013
I feel the need to express a distaste for this. The web is a continuously evolving platform where other browser-makers are releasing ever more frequent iterations shortening the time between something being defined in a spec, and when it's available in John End-user's browser. Yet you're releasing tools that allow organizations to block updates to your already infrequently updated browser. Just seems like the exact opposite of what's good for the evolving web.Anonymous
January 30, 2013
@Distasteful Decision I'm sure MS would prefer everyone to be using the latest version of IE but certain groups will not do that for compatability reasons. We're usually talking about enterprise environments that have big, outdated web apps running on their intranet which they aren't willing to invest money in to bring them up to date with newer browsers. It's sad, but that's just the way it is. Network admins need to have complete control over the machines they administer and unfortunately, blocking updates for a browser needs to be a part of that.Anonymous
January 30, 2013
Well, what is WORSE is that (1) XP users have no way to get a modern browser (IE9 or IE10) and that every new IE browser tries to preserve bugs in older webpages that were designed of older versions of but always but makes matters worse but introducing new bugs. And worse than all that is in IE9 (and I assume IE10) the same page can render entirely differently if it is frames or not. When coming up with a new browser just cut the cord on backward compatibility with bugs in standards mode for older browsers, and only have 1 damm quirks mode render. Aside from the lousy debugger (in the old days it was the best, now it is the worst) it is all the various compatibility issues that are unique to IE that makes IE less interesting to support with every release.Anonymous
January 30, 2013
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January 30, 2013
@Russ: Keep on dreaming about "just cut the cord on backward compatibility". This never gonna happen! MS tried with IE7 and it didn't work.Anonymous
January 30, 2013
When is the expected Release-To-Web date?Anonymous
January 30, 2013
good news!!!!!!Anonymous
January 30, 2013
What's the classification of IE10 in WSUS?Anonymous
January 31, 2013
@Distasteful Decision: And remember MS continues to release security updates for versions of IE down to what was originally shipped with the Windows version until the Windows version ends support.Anonymous
January 31, 2013
@Distasteful Decision I agree completely.Anonymous
January 31, 2013
See: www.modern.ie/report According to Micrsofts own brandnew siteadvsor is it time to update this blogs old jquery libraryAnonymous
January 31, 2013
there's no need for this. Just implement a single WSUS profiles on a network server and be done with this.Anonymous
January 31, 2013
@IE-Team, @Microsoft. Would you please update the blog and comment system anytime soon? Come join HTML5 and its fun! Please update this site. If you think there is no need, please let us save your time. I have the complete blog system with source ready and I can give you anonymously... just deploy it on your server and you make at least few thousand people happy!Anonymous
January 31, 2013
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January 31, 2013
like yaAnonymous
January 31, 2013
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January 31, 2013
sa nu se blochezeAnonymous
February 01, 2013
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February 01, 2013
What a shame. Just when I though IE was catching up.Anonymous
February 05, 2013
I am 100% a Microsoft guy and I always used IE. Other browsers I use are just for testing purposes as I am a web developer. Today, I am thinking about leaving IE. Many of my friends are adopting Chrome or FF. Even those working on (or for) Microsoft are doing that. I think the future of IE, so it may survive, will be based on Webkit... You are killing IE and many of its fans. I had many fights on Facebook for defending IE... Now, I see some of those people were right... Why do many websites work on Chrome, FF, Safari or Opera and not on IE? Come on, it's time to build a good browser! I use the same Brian Peiris's words... Just when I thought IE was catching up... (I am from Portugal, sorry for my bad english.)Anonymous
February 05, 2013
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February 06, 2013
@Prior Semblance - Yes, rumor has it that IE10 for Windows 7 will finally come out of "preview" later this month, based upon the previous period between the IE9 blocker and the actual release of IE9 - see: blog.mid.as/.../and-the-final-release-date-for-internet-explorer-10-on-windows-7-is @Distasteful Decision - I totally agree, Microsoft are certainly holding back the web with tools like this, and the lack of timely updates to IE over the years! But I also agree with @Nacimota's point that many corporate environments don't always want to update to the latest IE due to compatibility issues with some of the web-based applications. But to be honest, in these cases, corporations should be putting pressure on the developers of such apps to ensure they'll run in the latest version of IE! ...and if the developers of the web apps their using can't support their software in the most recent versions of IE, maybe businesses need to change and use web apps that ARE maintained by the developers!Anonymous
February 06, 2013
Necesito todas las aplicacions en EspanolAnonymous
February 12, 2013
Any chance there will be a "FixIt" for the bitlocker. Some places I know may not want to use IE10 immediately and they rely on Windows Update - no WSUS or others.Anonymous
February 12, 2013
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