title: IE11 Server 2012r2: Trusted Sites treated as Internet Sites in Enhanced Protected Mode Context?
body: <p>I am trying to automate some tasks on Internet Explorer using AutoIT. I am using AutoIT's IE.au3 library.</p>
  
  <p>I have Enhanced Protected Mode enabled for my machine.
  I want to disable it (and Protected Mode) for a specific site and I am using IE 11. According to MS documentation - Enhanced Protected Mode must have Protected Mode enabled in order to work. I tested this by disabling protected mode for all zones, and indeed confirmed it - Enhanced Protected Mode was not launched. So I figured - if I'll add the site to "Trusted Sites" zone where the Protected Mode is disabled, Enhanced Protected Mode should not launch.</p>
  
  <p>The result:</p>
  
  <p>I get the following behavior: IE still opens in "Sandboxed IE" (meaning, a process with Integrity Level "AppContainer" - Enhanced Protected Mode is still enabled!).</p>
  
  <p>Then, if I turn off Protected Mode for Internet Zone - then the Enhanced Protected Mode is really disabled for the site, and I get an IE that is not Sandboxed. </p>
  
  <p>So my conclusion - IE treats the trusted site as internet site (at least as far as Enhanced Protected Mode is concerned). I also found evidence for this (probably, bug) in the following site: <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/fdcc/archive/2011/09/22/internet-explorer-s-explicit-security-zone-mappings.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.technet.com/b/fdcc/archive/2011/09/22/internet-explorer-s-explicit-security-zone-mappings.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to solve this?</p>
  
  <p>I also thought that maybe my addition to trusted sites zone was faulty - so I checked with URLs with dots(such as <a href="http://10.10.3.255/mypage" rel="nofollow">http://10.10.3.255/mypage</a>) and URLs without dots (such as <a href="http://mysite/mypage" rel="nofollow">http://mysite/mypage</a> ) - according to some Microsoft documentation (<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd361896.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd361896.aspx</a> ) -the former translate to Internet Zone and the latter translate to Intranet zone. However I found out that it is about the Internet Zone in both cases. Perhaps my configuration was faulty? I tried adding "10.10.3.255", "<a href="http://10.10.3.255" rel="nofollow">http://10.10.3.255</a>", "10.10.3.255/*" but I couldn't see any difference in results</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>