How to resolve the message: “The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control' from 'Microsoft Corporation'. If you trust the Web site and the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here...”

Recently, I was asked if I had an idea of how to resolve this problem; the most common and easiest solution to fixing this problem is to add the site to the Trusted Sites in Internet Explorer; while this is the easiest way to fix the problem, some of the users might not like the fact that they will have to do this the first time they access the site.

The second method to fix this problem is more involved and requires the modification of the master page, the steps for achieving this are listed in great detail in the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931509