Apply GPO to only IE8 throught filtering

[Frankv]

I used WMI filtering in the GPMC to apply GPO's to only IE6 and IE7 which worked fine on WXP.
Now I want to do the same with IE8 on W7, but apparantly the WMI class
root\CIMV2\Applications\MicrosoftIE is not offered anymore on W7 (and even Vista, I heard)

After searching for a while now, I'm getting desperate.

Who can shed a light on this ?

I used this search string in the 'old' environment
root\CIMV2\Applications\MicrosoftIE

SELECT * FROM MicrosoftIE_Summary WHERE Version LIKE "%7.0%"

Thx.

[Mike.Stephens]

For reasons unknown, the IE team removed the WMI namespace for IE with IE version 8. You're not alone in your quest as this has caused a big deal all over the "interwebs".

Unfortunately, the easiest answer I've provided most people is to put the namespace back. To do this, you need to add a custom .MOF file on your client computers and then recompile the WMI repository using mofcomp.exe. Here is the sample .MOF file you can use.

=========
#pragma autorecover
#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\Root\\CimV2\\Applications")

instance of __Namespace
{
Name = "MicrosoftIE";
};

#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\root\\CimV2\\Applications\\MicrosoftIE ")

[DYNPROPS]
class MicrosoftIE_Summary
{
[key] string Name="";
string Version;
};

[DYNPROPS]
instance of MicrosoftIE_Summary
{
Name = "Internet Explorer";
[PropertyContext("local|hkey_local_Machine\\softwar e\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer|Version"),Dynamic,Provider("RegPropProv")] Version;
};

==========

This should add the namespace back into WMI and prevent reauthoring WMI Filters.

[Frankv]

Hi Mike,

Thank's for your feedback.
It's strange that I did not find any discussion about this, allthough it seems I'm not alone with this issue. I was probably looking in the wrong places :-)
Could you guide me in the right direction where I could follow this discussion?.Thx

I will try out the fix and come back to you with the results.

Kind regards,

Frank.