Vista and Windows 7 Pro both have an Active-X installer service. On Vista pro it's not there by default and has to be installed. On 7 pro it is there by default. Once this service is running on the PC, the administrators can configure the service via group policy.
The group policy settings allow the admins to create a list of trusted URLs from which the user is allowed to install Active-X controls. This can even be set to happen silently.
Now, if only I could do that for Acrobat and flash updates....
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