Article ID: 2635543 - Last Review: December 13, 2011 - Revision: 1.0

The "Pop-up allow list" option in Group Policy for Internet Explorer 9 does not work as expected

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SYMPTOMS

When you use the following Group Policy to configure the Pop-up allow list option for Internet Explorer 9, the pop-up window does not work as expected:

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Component\Internet Explorer\Pop-up allow list

However, if you use the following registry subkey to configure the binary data for the Pop-up allow list option, the pop-up window works as expected:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow

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RESOLUTION

Security update information

To resolve this issue, install the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website:

http://update.microsoft.com (http://update.microsoft.com)

For technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft website:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx)

Note This update was first included in security update 2618444.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2618444 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2618444/ ) MS11-099: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer: December 13, 2011

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