Adding sites to Trusted or Internet zones

You can add sites to the Internet zones in Internet explorer by manipulating the registry directly. I normally do this via VBScript but that is starting to become an unsupported technology so I suppose I will have to learn to use PowerShell or something. The documentation for this is a bit scattered in the MS documentation, so here's a quick explanation:

The path in the registry related to the URL. The pattern is 2ndlevel.TLD\4thLevel.3rdLevel.

• http://share.domain.com/ = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
  CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\domain.com\share
• http://audit.workspace.domain.com/ = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
  CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\domain.com\audit.workspace

You can also switch it to LOCAL_MACHINE instead of CURRENT_USER if you want to make this setting apply to Local Service and machine controlled access systems.

At each location, you then create DWORD values. The name of the DWORD is the protocol and then the value of the DWORD is set to match the zone you want to use. I find that I use these protocols the most:

• http
• https
• ftp
• file

The values are:

• 1 = Intranet Zone
• 2 = Trusted Zone
• 4 = Prohibited

If you enter 3, I don't think is does anything.