IE 10 and 11 renders in IE 7 mode on intranet site.

Question

I am trying to get IE to render on the latest version for intranet sites, but it keeps defaulting to IE 7 for compatibility. I have this in my Web.config and it still does not work. A meta tag will not work because this is an intranet site (), and I have tried it, also. I have the following in my web.config:

<system.webServer>
 <httpProtocol>
   <customHeaders>
    <add name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=edge" />
   </customHeaders>
 </httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>

I would appreciate any suggestions. Also, I do know that you can turn off the compatibility mode in IE settings but this would not work for me as I have 1000s of users that would have to do this individually, which would not be ideal and would be my last choice on how to handle the situation.

Answer 1

We have this issue in the organisation that I'm currently working for.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but, from what we've discovered, the 'fallback' to IE7 is a network wide policy set by the IT department. As we all know, getting things like this changed is like getting blood from a stone !

Every set-up is different however so you could try this:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />

Directly after your opening 'head' tag...