What's in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit?

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) contains programs and tools to help you customize and administer Internet Explorer.

You can:

• Tailor the browser and other Internet components to fit your organization's or customers' needs. For example, you can customize the Links bar and Favorites list to promote your organization or provide helpful information.
• Configure settings before you install, so you don't need to set options on each computer.
• Customize Setup so that it requires less intervention and installs your custom programs.
• If you're a corporate administrator, control which settings your employees can change, so you ensure that security, connection, and other important settings adhere to corporate standards.

Before using the IEAK, you should determine which settings you want to customize, prepare any graphics or custom files you'll need, and plan your distribution method. You'll also want to familiarize yourself with the programs and tools in the IEAK.

Internet Explorer Customization Wizard

The Customization wizard provides five stages of step-by-step screens that help you create customized Internet Explorer packages.

Internet Explorer Administration Kit Profile Manager

The Profile Manager enables you to change your users' settings and restrictions automatically, after Internet Explorer is already installed. For more information, see How to Use the IEAK Profile Manager.

Connection Manager Administration Kit

The Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) is a wizard that guides you through customizing and configuring the Microsoft Connection Manager dialer. The CMAK creates a self-extracting executable (*.exe) file that installs itself on your users' computers. Then when a user clicks the custom icon to connect to the Internet, the custom dialer dialog box that you created appears. You can build a custom profile into your Internet Explorer packages.

IEAK Toolkit

The IEAK Toolkit contains helpful tools, programs, and sample files, such as the IExpress wizard, sample sign-up and addon files, artwork, and other tools. The Toolkit contents are located in the Toolkit folder of the IEAK program folder.

Internet Explorer Administration Kit Help

You can use the Index, Table of Contents, and full-text Search to find topics that address your needs. You can print a single topic or all topics at once; from the Table of Contents, you can print a "book" or a group of related topics.