I work in a hospital and there is a web application we use to view x-ray images. The viewer requires an activeX object. Everytime we do an upgrade there is a new object that must download. We rely on the end user to accept the download. Usually this works ok. Do to security policies our last upgrade encountered major problems where the end user was not even prompted to download the object. This resulted in the inability to view images and having to physically touch all PC’s in the department. Not cool.
I was wondering if there was a way to write a vbscript to load the activeX object in the background with no user intervention. My idea would be the next time we upgrade we could assign the script to the domain and have all the PC’s update. If so can anyone get me started. I have done some scripting but am not familiar with using it to make mods to IE.
A few things to consider, changing security is not an option. My group has no control over any of that. I realize there are probably better ways to handle this but for reasons too lengthy to explain here, this is my best (and possibly only) option.
Thanks gang. Look forward to your responses…
