Setting Default Web Browser using Preferences in Windows 2008

Hi
our users need to use both IE8 and Google Chrome. IE 8 is necessary due to issues with clinical apps etc. 
However, we need to force IE8 as the default browser but allow users to access Google Chrome and not allow this to be set as default.
There are several posts about "Maintenance Mode" settings but these are no longer available. 
How can I achieve this?
Thanks
Albo

Hi Albo,
How is it going? For we are using Windows Server 2008 and IE8, we should still be able to use Internet Explorer Maintenance (IEM) to configure IE as default browser. Besides, if we can't use IEM, we can choose to use script or Group Policy Preferences
Registry extension to edit registry to set IE as default browser.
Regarding this point, the following thread can be referred to for more information.
Default Browser via Group policy
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e63fe81b-1ad8-4303-ad1d-e2f6e3d8cb0a/default-browser-via-group-policy?forum=winserverGP
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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