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Use the following information to configure Microsoft Edge policy settings on your Windows devices.

Note

This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later.

Configure policy settings on Windows

You can use group policy objects (GPO) to configure policy settings for Microsoft Edge and managed Microsoft Edge updates on all versions of Windows. You can also provision policy through the registry for Windows devices that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, or Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances enrolled for device management in Microsoft Intune. To configure Microsoft Edge with group policy objects, you install administrative templates that add rules and settings for Microsoft Edge to the group policy Central Store in your Active Directory domain or to the Policy Definition template folder on individual computers and then configure the specific policies you want to set.

You can use Active Directory group policy to configure Microsoft Edge policy settings if you prefer to manage policy at the domain level. This enables you to manage policy settings globally, targeting different policy settings to specific OUs, or using WMI filters to apply settings only to users or computers returned by a particular query. If you want to configure policy on individual computers, you can apply policy settings that only affect the local device using the Local Group Policy Editor on the target computer.

Microsoft Edge supports both mandatory and recommended policies. Mandatory policies override user preferences and prevents the user from changing it, while recommended policy provide a default setting that may be overridden by the user. Most policies are mandatory only; a subset are mandatory and recommended. If both versions of a policy are set, the mandatory setting takes precedence. A recommended policy only takes effect when the user has not modified the setting.

Tip

You can use Microsoft Intune to configure Microsoft Edge policy settings. For more information, see Configure Microsoft Edge using Microsoft Intune.

There are two administrative templates for Microsoft Edge, both of which can be applied either at the computer or Active Directory domain level:

  • msedge.admx to configure Microsoft Edge settings
  • msedgeupdate.admx to manage Microsoft Edge updates.

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To get started, download and install the Microsoft Edge administrative template.

1. Download and install the Microsoft Edge administrative template

If you want to configure Microsoft Edge policy settings in Active Directory, download the files to a network location you can access from a domain controller or a workstation with the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) installed. To configure on an individual computer, simply download the files to that computer.

When you add the administrative template files to the appropriate location, Microsoft Edge policy settings are immediately available in the Group Policy Editor.

Go to the Microsoft Edge Enterprise landing page to download the Microsoft Edge policy templates file (MicrosoftEdgePolicyTemplates.cab) and extract the contents.

Add the administrative template to Active Directory

  1. On a domain controller or workstation with RSAT, browse to the PolicyDefinition folder (also known as the Central Store) on any domain controller for your domain. For older versions of Windows Server, you may need to create the PolicyDefinition folder. For more information, see How to create and manage the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates in Windows.

  2. Open MicrosoftEdgePolicyTemplates and go to windows > admx.

  3. Copy the msedge.admx file to the PolicyDefinition folder. (Example: %systemroot%sysvoldomainpoliciesPolicyDefinitions)

  4. In the admx folder, open the appropriate language folder. For example, if you’re in the U.S., open the en-US folder.

  5. Copy the msedge.adml file to the matching language folder in the PolicyDefinition folder. Create the folder if it does not already exist. (Example: %systemroot%sysvoldomainpoliciesPolicyDefinitionsEN-US)

  6. If your domain has more than one domain controller, the new ADMX files will be replicated to them at the next domain replication interval.

  7. To confirm the files loaded correctly, open the Group Policy Management Editor from Windows Administrative Tools and expand Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Edge. You should see one or more Microsoft Edge nodes as shown below.

Add the administrative template to an individual computer

  1. On the target computer, open MicrosoftEdgePolicyTemplates and go to windows > admx.
  2. Copy the msedge.admx file to your Policy Definition template folder. (Example: C:WindowsPolicyDefinitions)
  3. In the admx folder, open the appropriate language folder. For example, if you’re in the U.S., open the en-US folder.
  4. Copy the msedge.adml file to the matching language folder in your Policy Definition folder. (Example: C:WindowsPolicyDefinitionsen-US)
  5. To confirm the files loaded correctly either open Local Group Policy Editor directly (Windows key + R and enter gpedit.msc) or open MMC and load the Local Group Policy Editor snap-in. If an error occurs, it’s usually because the files are in an incorrect location.

2. Set mandatory or recommended policies

You can set mandatory or recommended policies to configure Microsoft Edge with the Group Policy Editor for both Active Directory and individual computers. You can scope policy settings to either the Computer Configuration or User Configuration by selecting the appropriate node as described below.

  • To configure a mandatory policy, open the Group Policy Editor and go to (Computer Configuration or User Configuration) > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Edge.

  • To configure a recommended policy, open the Group Policy Editor and go to (Computer Configuration or User Configuration) > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Edge – Default Settings (users can override).

3. Test your policies

On a target client device, open Microsoft Edge and navigate to edge://policy to see all policies that are applied. If you applied policy settings on the local computer, policies should appear immediately. You may need to close and reopen Microsoft Edge if it was open while you were configuring policy settings.

For Active Directory group policy settings, policy settings are propagated to domain computers at a regular interval defined by your domain administrator, and target computers may not receive policy updates right away. To manually refresh Active Directory group policy settings on a target computer, execute the following command from a command prompt or PowerShell session on the target computer:

You may need to close and reopen Microsoft Edge before the new policies appear.

You can also use REGEDIT.exe on a target computer to view the registry settings that store group policy settings. These settings are located at the registry path HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftEdge.

See also

Microsoft Edge Meaning Slang

Since Chromium Edge went general availability I’ve switched to it as my primary browser away from Google Chrome.

One of the useful things chrome had was the ability to create web apps with specific profiles, which allowed me to easily be signed into multiple Microsoft Teams guest access tenants concurrently.

I wrote a PowerShell script to generate per tenant chrome web apps in their own dedicated instance. It proved to be very popular.

So how do we achieve the same thing with Chromium Edge?

Creating an Edge Web App for each Microsoft Teams Guest Access Tenant

Edge does have the ability to “Install this site as an app”, but by default, the app is running in the same profile as the browser, so if you just create an app and try to sign into Teams in the app it will keep wanting to be in the same tenant as the main browser, meaning you can’t have multiple apps signed into different Microsoft Teams guest access tenants.

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However, if you create a profile first, then sign into Teams, then create an app, the app runs as that profile and you can run multiple “apps” which each use different profiles, which allows you to be signed into different Microsoft Teams guest tenants concurrently.

For each guest tenant, you want an app for, create an Edge Profile

Name it something sensible, maybe the name of the tenant you are going to use it for

Sign into Microsoft Teams, and switch to the tenant you want to make an app for. Click to the Team/Channel you want the app to launch at.

Then “Install this site as an app”

You will get a nice “app” experience and a shortcut on the desktop

From the shortcut, the app will launch in that profile

Meaning you can launch multiple apps concurrently signed into different tenants and they won’t impact each other.

Microsoft Edge Logo Meaning

Want to launch the web apps on startup?

Try Microsoft Edge Browser

Just copy the shortcuts from the desktop to the startup folder.

How Do I Install Microsoft Edge

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