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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 | Tech Help

We are in the process of installing a policy and procedure management application at the hospital. It has been setup so that users are not required to enter their user name and password to access the site, it is done via LDAP. To get the single-sign-on benefits of the LDAP look ups we needed to add the domain name to the list of trusted sites in IE. This can be done via Group Policy, but, my experiences with this group policy setting has been mixed. Each time I configured this Group Policy Object setting it turned off the option for the user to add sites. Each new site needed to be added by me in to the GPO. While I limit what my users can change and access I do not like getting calls for simple stuff like this. What was I to do?

Desktop Authority and registry settings to the rescue.

I searched Google for the location of the registry key used to set the zones and came up with:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\thedomainname.com\thesubdomain

Type: RED_DWORD
Value: http
Data: 1

I added my required site as a DWORD value in to DA, which can been seen below: