SIM IE9 Trusted Sites

Tue, 2012-01-10 15:31 — sepeck

powershell |
windows

HP SIM with IE9 really wants it to be in the Trusted sites list for some functioanlity to work reliably. However, maybe there is a GPO preventing you from adding to the trusted sites list yet you need to get to something 'now'. Grrr...

Let's go with a hypothetical SIM server of SimServerName.

PowerShell launched with administrator credentials (you can do this manually too)

# Check Existing
Get-ChildItem -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains'
 
# Add server
New-Item -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\SimServerName'
 
# add access method for https (do one for http if you need that for some reason)
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\SimServerName' -Name https -Value 2

I don't know if this is a quirk of our environment or not, but it seems to clear up a number of issues with SIM and Onboard Administrator for blade servers.

Side note, say you need to set this for all servers of a domain? (i.e. all Microsoft.com servers, or all your local AD domain?

Get-ChildItem -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\EscDomains'
 
New-Item -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\EscDomains\Domain.Local'
 
New-Item -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\EscDomains\Domain.Local\*'
 
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\EscDomains\Domain.Local\*' -Name https -Value 2