Questions[activex](server)

I'm trying to set up an domain in Azure AD Connect on a Workgroup computer. The challenge that we have is, we have a dedicated domain controller for the purpose of Azure AD Connect and the other domain controllers are in a non-routable network for AD Sync server (We chose not to install AD Connect on Domain Controller for various reasons). Sites & Services are configured properly but when we attempt to add the extra domain, we get the error "The Specified Domain does not exist or cannot be contacted."

Routes exists, firewall rules allow standard AD traffic along with dedicated AD Sync server's traffic as well. If I attempt to join the computer to the domain, I am prompted for credentials which I think would be successful if I click OK.

I have to constantly switch back and forth between two installations of a web app with two different versions of an ActiveX control. Therefore I'd like to script the ability to uninstall this control. Its does not show up in Win32_Product because it was not installed via windows installer, and contrary to this answer, the Win32_ClassicCOMClass does not contain this ActiveX control.

AXHelper shows the control in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID. So my two questions are:

• How do I enumerate the control with WMI
• How do I uninstall the control with WMI

I recently created an Intranet application for my company, but to work properly it must execute an ActiveX control to locally run a program.

However, the only way I found for this to work was using Internet Explorer, and setting Intranet security to a personalized "very low" configuration for being able to execute ActiveX scripts without asking.

I think there is a way to automatically configure IE's settings for all users from Active Directory, but I can't find it. Any help?

I have a third party ActiveX Control that I want to package up in a msi so it can be deployed and registered via Group Policy. The goal being I don't want the end user to have to click through and install the ActiveX control in IE. I have the Cab file which contains (2) ocx files, (1) inf file, and (1) dll. How do I know get these installed and registered as an ActiveX in IE?

I'm looking back at some old MS security bulletin for distribution to new clients and when I look at downloads for the last set of MS ActiveX killbits, KB article here, under each platform I see links with the term IDX. For instance there will be an entry that says "For Windows 7 for 32-bit versions" and then one a few rows down that says "For Windows 7 IDX for 32-bit versions".

What's the difference between the two? I understand from a little digging that idx is one of the field names for the database that ActiveX controls are stored in, but that's not really helpful.