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Bruce_McDonald
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Jun 14, 2020
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Do the Group Policy templates actually work for stopping/controlling Microsoft Edge Updates?

Hello   I am current testing MS Edge for Business with the specific goal of controlling the update cadence for the Stable channel. I want complete control on when these updates are applied and ONLY...
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    azeigler
    Jun 17, 2020

    Hi Bruce_McDonald,

     

    Setting the "Update policy override" to "Updates disabled: Updates are never applied" will prevent Edge from being updated on any domain-joined machine. Setting this is sufficient to prevent any updating from happening. When configured, the services / scheduled tasks will not update the browser. They're still scheduled in the case that the policy changes from "off" to "on". 

     

    Thanks,

     

    Andy Zeigler

    Edge Team

     

     

     

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Anonymous
Jun 15, 2020

Bruce_McDonald Thanks for reaching out. I'm looping in our Enterprise team and will let you know if they have any insights to share.

 

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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Bruce_McDonald
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Jun 15, 2020

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Thanks for the update!

 

I am finding it very odd that there is not a lot of guidance on this subject. You would think there would be a simple article somewhere on the web saying "make the following settings and Edge is under control" 🙂

 

OR - every other admin worldwide has either figured it out OR is letting Edge update itself automatically and not worrying about auto updates.

 

Edge for Business (the browser itself) is very very good - if I can get the update cadence reeled in a bit for my users - that would just about make it perfect.

 

Cheers

 

Bruce