Browser customization - IEAK

[ian045]

Can anyone help? We have re-installed that many times (includeing complete rebuild) and still we get the message 'Browser customization' error before we can roll the new image out. We already have used IEAK from IE5 + IE5.5 without issue. Any advice suggestions fixes anything

cheers
Ian

 

[ian045]

Hope this is the right way to update this. I found the answer at

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=IEAK+browser&hl=en&selm=3B867D63.F860A88@honeywell-tsi.com&rnum=2

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URGENT ACTION IS REQUIRED BY MICROSOFT ON THIS ISSUE.
>
> Dear all,
>
> Many people are being frustrated by the newer version of the IEAK or the
> update to IE55SP2 which after being created by the IEAK fails to install,
> with either a not all the components can be installed error message, or an
> error indicating that installation of browser cusomisations failed.
>
> The solution holds much thanks to Bob Echter (bechter@gbix.net). His post
> was dated 26th June 2001, so this problem has been in existance for a while.
>
> The problem lies with IE5setup.cif file which in layman terms incorrectly
> makes the branding.cab file only install if the version of IE is equal to or
> higher than 6.0 rather than 5.0. This sounds crazy, but its how I read it,
> and is most probably true, below is an extract from Bob's post.
>
> "I found the answer just yesterday. The problem is with the iesetup.cif
> file
> that is created in the ie5setup.exe file. You will have to extract all the
> files from ie5setup using the /c switch. edit the ie5setup.cif file and
> look for the section for the branding.cab. There you will see a line like
> this: Dependencies=BASEIE40_Win:N:6.0.0.0, change it to read
> Dependencies=BASEIE40_Win:N:5.0.0.0 save the file. Now you have to use the
> iexpress.exe program to recreate the ie5setup.exe file.
>
> This fixes the problem. I have not been able to find where MS gets the
> version 6 check from but it drove me nuts for 3 days."
>
> To add to the above you will also need to proably use the /t switch when
> extracting the above so something like ie5setup.exe /t:c:\ie55setup /c the
> files will then be placed in c:\ie55setup, modify the Ie5setup.cif file
> created in there and then use the Iexpress tool to recreate an new
> IE5setup.exe file (or give it your own name, it doesn't matter).
>
> Note: Something my own testing has shown is that the iecif.cab file also
> contains an incorrect ie5setup.cif file, this doesn't seem to affect the
> solution given above by Bob, but there could be repercussions later.
>
> I personally would wait for an official fix from MS for this, but for those
> in mission critical environments where this build needs to be deployed now,
> the above is a workaround. If anyone from MS is reading this, or if anyone
> has good hooks into MS, please pass this information along, and get this
> issued resolved. I'm sure there are lots of admins out there tearing there
> hair out wasting lots of time, for something that shouldn't have been broken
> in the first place.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Janson (aka JTR)