IE 8 Getting Slipstream Support

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At Teched yesterday the IE team revealed a little more about IE8 for IT Pro's.  They are planning to make IE8 slipstreamable into images.  Meaning updating your image to include IE8 will take 10-15 minutes versus the time it might take to wake it up and then re-sysprep.

To slipstream IE8 only takes 10-15 minute per image. You’ll also be able to slipstream IE8 cumulative updates so that you are shipping the most up to date and secure image.

Look out for a forthcoming post to learn more about Slipstreaming IE8.

Additional info shared about IE 8:

  • adding new events to the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) that help you detect and resolve potential issues between IE8
  • providing Group Policy settings that help you control, with great granularity, those settings that most impact compatibility.
  • IEAK8 will support custom IE8 builds for new platforms: Vista and Windows Server 2008 and new IE8 features like Activities and Web Slices
  • We plan to include all of the above mentioned features in our Beta 2 release which is planned for August 2008.

Posted Jun 12 2008, 10:01 AM by Josh Phillips

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