Opening Trusted Site

While I appreciate Microsoft attempting to stop me from stubbing my virtual toe, sometimes they can be a little like the annoying, overbearing parent asking, "Are you sure you want to do that, Jimmy?" This is one of those times.  I am note sure what version this particular protective bubble came with, but either way it's annoying my users, and as a result, annoying me.

I am talking about the warning The current webpage is trying to open a site in your Trusted sites list.















Now asking me if I want to go from a site that isn't trusted to one that is seems a little odd, especially seeing as I am obviously attempting to get to a place that I feel is safer with it being added to my trusted sites.

Now full disclosure here.  While this is annoying, it only actually pops up if a website that isn't trusted tries to redirect to one that is trusted with you the user having clicked on a specific link.  Even so, if a website I don't trust is trying to take me to somewhere I do trust then why stop it.

Now that we have established my displeasure with this particular warning, lets get rid of it.  We have two options to get rid of this error.

Option 1.

As this error only appears when a non-trusted site redirects automatically to a trusted site, we can just add the non-trusted site to the trusted sites list.

Using the screenshot above, we can see that https://login.windows.net its trying to redirect to https://login.microsoftonline.com.

Now, if we add httsp://login.windows.net to our trusted sites list we won't receive the warning because both sites are equally trusted.

Option 2.

This option is for those of you who want to get rid of it completely and never have that particular dialog box darken your screen again.  We can do this by changing a setting in IE.

Open IE and go to settings cog and choose Internet options



Select the Security Tab.  Select Trusted sites.  Click Custom level.


Scroll through the list and find Websites in less privileged web content zone can navigate into this zone.  Set it to Enable.  Click OK until your back at the IE browser. 


That should take care of that warning for good.  If you have to do this on a lot of PCs, I would suggest looking into using group policy preferences to deploy customized IE options.

As with anything you get from the Internet, use the above at your own risk.  Just because it worked for me doesn't mean it will work for you.

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