How to deploy Internet Explorer 11 using SCCM 2012 R2

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How to deploy Internet Explorer 11 using

SCCM 2012 R2

In this post we will see how to deploy internet explorer 11 using SCCM 2012 R2. Internet Explorer is installed when you install the windows operating system and is the default browser for any windows OS. Today most of the companies use Windows 7 as the OS and IE 10 as the browser, with the release of Internet Explorer 11, the companies might be looking to upgrade their browser version from IE10 to IE11. The internet Explorer 11 offers better features than IE10 and is more faster and smoother when compared to IE10. Note that the Internet Explorer 11 is available for a number of systems and languages. Internet Explorer 11 is pre-installed on Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. There are multiple ways on deploying internet explorer 11 and they are listed below.

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System Center R2 2012 Configuration Manager – Deploy and install Internet Explorer 11 on

your user’s computers through a software distribution package.

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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) – Download a single copy of the Internet Explorer 11

updates, caching them to local servers so your users’ computers can receive the updates directly from the WSUS servers, instead of through Windows Update.

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Group Policy Software Installation – Deploy and install Internet Explorer 11 on your user’s

computers through a combination of Group Policy and Active Directory.

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) – Add the Internet Explorer 11 update to your deployment

share, using MDT to update your previously-deployed Windows image.

In this post we will see the steps to deploy the IE11 using SCCM 2012 R2 on a Windows 7 computer. We will download the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 11 first. Internet Explorer

Administration Kit 11 (IEAK 11) simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of customized Internet Explorer 11 packages. It can be used to configure the out-of-box Internet Explorer 11

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When you install Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, the installer program tries to automatically install some prerequisite components. If this part of the installation fails, Internet Explorer stops the installation process.We will download the prerequisites first and then install IEAK 11. To download the IE 11 prerequisites click on the below button.

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Prerequisite updates for Internet Explorer 11

The prerequisites are available for both 32 bit and 64 bit OS, download the appropriate files

depending on whether you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit edition of the operating system. Download the files and extract each update to a folder using 7zip.

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Choose Internal Distribution via a Corporate Intranet. Click Next.

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Now the IEAK 11 customization wizard pops up, this wizard will help you to customize, deploy and manage IE. Click Next.

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Package Type Selection – Click Full Installation Package. Click Next.

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Now we know that IE11 requires certain prerequisites which we have download already. Let’s add them to custom components. Click on Add.

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Provide the name for that component (provide KB number as its easy to identify the update), choose

Install before Internet Explorer (we want the updates to be installed before IE11 is installed) and

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When you have added all the components, it should resemble the below screenshot. Click Next.

User Experience – Choose Completely Silent Installation and No restart. Click Next and

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When you open the destination folder you will see the IE11 package. One of them is an app and other one is windows installer package (.msi).

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