Dear experts,
In my network controlled by an Microsoft SBS 2003 server, there are several desktop clients and a few notebook clients - all running XP Professional. User have limited rights to install/manage settings on their computers when logged in as domain user. For the users using a notebook, I have created a seperate policy group in order to enable some features for them (ie ability to change energy settings/display settings, accessing local C drive, etc).
Now I've noticed that none of the regular users (the ones that are using desktops), there are no tabs in Internet Explorer 7. They are able to enable/disable tabbed browsing in the IE7 settings, but the tabs fail to appear. Also the option to open a link in a new tab is missing from the context menu. Ctrl-click will open a link in a new window rather than a new tab. I've tried resetting all settings to default in IE7, but this doesn't change anything.
When I log in as administrator on one of the client desktops, tabbed browsing DOES work. Also, the domain users on the laptops (seperate policy group) do have tabbed browsing in their IE7. When I log in to a desktop with a user that normally uses a laptop, I also get tabbed browsing.
My conclusion is that this must have something to do with group policies. The problem is that I've been looking through all the different policy groups, but everywhere I look, I see "Turn off tabbed browsing" set to "not configured". This makes sense, because the tabbed browsing settings are not greyed out for the desktop users. I have been looking in this location: User Configuration\Administrati
ve Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer: Turn Off Tab Browsing
Am I overlooking something? I have to admit that I find group policy the most difficult part of Windows Server, so I hope you can help me out with this. I could upload a screenshot if necessary. Or perhaps it's something completely different?
Thanks so much in advance!
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