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SharePoint, public website and name.dll ActiveX yellow bar 

BIG UPDATE, if you are here, skip this entry and go directly to: Revenge of the SharePoint, public website and name.dll ActiveX yellow bar


Ok, so here I am, happily going along installing my public website in Sharepoint, when I notice my partner when he tries to view the new website online gets an ActiveX warning yellow bar:

 The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust the Web site and the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here...

How annoying and not very “professional” looking for a public website, definitely gives that garland, rooney, sheet in the back of the barn feel.  You look like a newbie in the new web 2.0 world if your public website is trying to load any active x control other then Silverlight, Flash, or Air.

Luckily a little digging around turns up an answer (good old google)  ..Fixing the name.dll ActiveX Problem the Mossman Way.

Follow the link for the help if you need it.

 
Posted on 26-Feb-09 by Matthew C. Hintzen
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