Upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 using System Center Configuration Manager - An Alternative Way

Recently one of our customer wanted to upgrade their Internet Explorer version to 11 in Windows 7 machines since Microsoft already stopped support for versions below Internet Explorer 11 long time back.

For the upgrade, most used methods are:

1. Task Sequence.
2. IEAK - Internet Explorer Administration Kit.

From above two, task sequence was the preferred method because, in that, it is possible to deploy prerequisites first and then deploy Internet Explorer 11 and also it can control restarts.

IEAK does not have many success rates.

But for me both of the above methods didn't work as it should. Task sequence gave errors.

So I used this method:


Since they have already configured Software Update Point (SUP) in ConfigMgr it was a very easy task to deploy Internet Explorer 11 upgrade through software update.

All you need to do is this:

1. Following classifications should be enabled in SUP configuration.

2. After a full Software Updates synchronization, search and add following updates to a single Software Update Group.

Note that Prerequisite Updates for Internet Explorer 11 states KB2731771 and KB2533623 is required. But those two updates are superseded by KB2758857. So deploying that single update would be sufficient.

3. Deploy the Software Update Group to a specific collection. After the machine restarts now you have Internet Explorer 11.


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