Impact of Internet Explorer end of support on Veritas Enterprise Vault, Compliance Accelerator, and Discovery Accelerator

Description

This article provides an overview of the impact of Internet Explorer (IE) end of support on Veritas Enterprise Vault, Compliance Accelerator, and Discovery Accelerator.

Note: This article applies to Veritas Enterprise Vault, Compliance Accelerator, and Discovery Accelerator. Hereafter in this article, these products are collectively referred to as "Veritas Products". 

Objective

Test and analyze potential impacts on the Veritas Products when running in the environment where Internet Explorer (IE) is disabled.

Background

Internet Explorer is a component of the Windows operating system (OS).

Internet Explorer (IE) 11 desktop application ended support for certain operating systems on June 15, 2022.

You can still access older, legacy sites that require IE with the IE mode in Microsoft Edge. The IE desktop application will progressively redirect to the faster, more secure Microsoft Edge browser and will ultimately be disabled via Windows Update.

Customers are encouraged to move to the Microsoft Edge with IE mode. This will enable backward compatibility.

For more information, see the Lifecycle FAQ - Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-explorer-microsoft-edge

Solution

Our tests did not detect any impact or other issues in this environment and all the functionalities worked as expected when Internet Explorer (IE) is disabled, and Microsoft Edge is installed and configured as the default browser.

The following link contains the documented steps to Disable Internet Explorer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-disable-ie11

Note: Uninstallation or removal of Internet Explorer (IE) is not supported by Veritas Products. 

Additional references

You are recommended to refer to the following additional references:

• Change your default browser: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-your-default-browser-in-windows-10-020c58c6-7d77-797a-b74e-8f07946c5db6
• Microsoft article on disabling Internet Explorer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-disable-ie11
• How to enable IE mode on Microsoft Edge: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/450116/how-to-enable-ie-mode-on-microsoft-edge
• Use Microsoft Edge in Internet Explorer Mode - Configure IE mode policies: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode-policies
• Follow the Microsoft guidelines to Redirect sites from Microsoft Edge to IE mode: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode-policies#redirect-sites-from-microsoft-edge-to-ie-mode