Alert: JRE (oaj2se.exe) Download from Internet Explorer Fails

This alert has been added to the following MOS documentation:

• Document ID 389422.1 titled “Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12”

The recent MS16-104: Security update for Internet Explorer: September 13, 2016 (KB3185319) breaks the JRE (oaj2se.exe) download function from the Oracle E-Business Suite server.

Normally,
if you do not have a suitable JRE plugin release installed on your
desktop you will be prompted to access the version called from the
server allowing the oaj2se.exe file to be downloaded and installed. 
After
the application of this security update despite responding to the
Install prompts in the usual way the oaj2se.exe file will not download.

Patch Fix

To fix this issue apply the appropriate patch as applicable to your Windows release as outlined on Microsoft’s
ActiveX installation that uses AXIS fails after you install MS16-104 page. (For seamless operation when accessing the patches through the Microsoft Update Catalog page it is advisable to use IE).

• Windows 7 and 8.1 users require KB3192665
• Windows 10 users require KB3193519

Workaround

If
you have KB 3185319 installed but are unable to install the fix at this
time, users may workaround the problem by calling the file directly
from the URL, for example:

http(s)://<myserver.example.com>:<port>/OA_HTML/oaj2se.exe