Re: Running Applications from our Local Intranet page only?

Advo wrote:
At the moment we have a simple intranet consisting of one
page full of webpage links, but we want to allow staff to
be able to open up applications they use a lot, such as
Access or Excel, straight from this page.

I know the concerns of running .exe's from website because
of all the exploits and such, but this is for Local users
only, running from our server.

Is there any way at all to do this?

With IE and with your domain added to the 'trusted sites' security zone,
in which the settings must allow the scripting of non-safe ActiveX
controls, you can script the instantiation of the Windows Scripting Host
COM object. With the WSH object you can do anything that you could do
from a command/DOS console in Windows, which includes starting other
applications.

Richard.


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