Internet Explorer 8 breaks Advanced Admin Console
Internet Explorer 8 is currently being pushed to Windows Home Servers around the world. Unfortunately Advanced Admin Console will no longer work when IE8 is installed. I’m 99.9% sure that this is a bug in IE8 and I’ve already spent a lot of time to find a workaround to the problem. However, it seems there’s no way to make it work.
I have updated the Advanced Admin Console addin to version 0.4.4 0.4.5 Beta. With the new version installed, the Home Server Console will no longer crash when you click on an administrative item in Advanced Admin Console. Instead, a message will be displayed when IE8 or higher is detected.
To make it clear:
PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL Internet Explorer 8 on your Windows Home Server if you plan to use Advanced Admin Console.
Download Advanced Admin Console AddIn Version 0.4.4 0.4.5 Beta.
UPDATE: I’ve just released version 0.4.5 Beta. Version 0.4.4 did not display the IE8 incompatibility message in the correct language.
CRC-32 EC6A053D
MD5 35967DAC1942451596DB337F250EA30E
SHA1 4EDB92357FD5DE4EEBD6C0A92B4D8EAE96DB150B
Important: Before installing the new release, please UNINSTALL any previous version!
Feedback is welcome via Email, at the WeGotServed-Forums (english) or Home-Server-Forum (german).
Advanced Admin Console Rel 0.4.3 appears to be working with IE8 (8.0.6001.18702) on my server WHS SP2.
I tried a few of the admin tools (defrag, performance) and got no crashes.
Hmmm??
But thanks for the heads up anyway.
@Mike
Hi!
Learned about the problems in german forum too. But for myself I can say that there have occured no problems depending on the parallel installation of IE8 und AAC. I am using the german version of WHS.
But anyway thks for your assistance.
Cu,
Holger
For those of us who have installed IE 8 and are having problems with the Admin Console, how do we revert back to IE 7? I can’t get into the control panel, because my Admin Console doesn’t work now. Thanks, -F
Mine is still working with IE8, but I’m still using an older version of Advanced Admin Console. Mine is 0.4.3
Yep I too am having the IE8 problems, but as fterence asked “how do we revert back to IE 7? I can’t get into the control panel, because my Admin Console doesn’t work now”
A valid point – help will be much appreciated
The funny thing is that the banner ad’s displaying on this page are both for Internet Explorer 8.
I have IE8 with AAC 4.3 and so far all has been working fine.
You can gain access to the control panel through a remote desktop access session from another computer that supports remote desktop client. Log iin with your administrator ID and pword.
Please see this post for directions on how to uninstall IE8:
http://www.home-server-addins.com/archives/232
you can actually still get control panel to work just by using AAC and creating a new shortcut to %windir%\system32\control.exe it works for me until a ‘newer’ version is developed.
BTW. I think that it may have something to do with the way the shortcuts on the AAC toolbar are created… I’m no developer, just a suggestion / stab in the dark
LOVE AAC!!
My 0.4.3 is working with IE8 as well.
I’m running 0.4.3 also…the only problem I’ve found so far is in trying to access “conrtol panel” under the admin tab. It locks up the remote access window and forces me to close it and reopen. As long as I stay away from the control panel tab…things seem to be working. I’m really looking forward to a fix for AAC…I don’t know how I will live without it!!!
You can get access to Control Panel and other administrative tools using the information on this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970207
This starts up a Remote Desktop connection to the server even on Windows XP Home which normally does not have this ability.
***Information from page***
Click Start, click Run, type MSTSC, and then press ENTER
In the Computer field type the name of your Home Server and then click Connect
In the Certificate Warning dialogue click Yes
In the User name field type Administrator
In the Password field type the password used to access the Home Server Console
Click OK
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