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Server 2008r2 GPP IE 10 options

Hi Guys,

I have a 2008r2 server and about 15 Windows 7 clients. This particular company just signed up with athenahealth which is a cloud based platform that requires several different options in IE configured (pop up blocker/trusted sties/etc.). I want to use group policy preferences to set this up, but as you know 2008r2 only supports up to IE8 natively. From what I've read I can use RSAT from a Windows 8 machine to configure these group policy preferences. The problem is that the client does not have any windows 8 machines on their domain. Is there a way to do this remotely from my office with Himachi and a virtual machine? I setup a windows 8.1 virtual machine but I get a pop up because it's not part of a domain. Any ideas on how I can do this?

compdigit44

Here are my suggestion from a Windows 8 workstation copy the PolicyDefination folder and copy it /send it to the client via usb, ftp etc..

On the client sides download the PolicyDefinations folder and extract it. IN AD create a central store and copy the contents of the Policy Definations folder to this location.

Here is how to create a central store..
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929841

I also found this download for the Windows 8 ADMX files
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36991

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I ended up going with using virtualbox and setting up a virtual machine with Windows 8. Was the cheapest/easiest option. Thanks for feedback.