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Bruce_McDonald
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Jun 14, 2020

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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azeigler
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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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Bruce_McDonald
Copper Contributor
Jun 19, 2020

azeigler 

 

Andy

 

Would also like some insight into what the Edge "About Edge" dialog is doing once that GP/Reg edit you suggested has been placed. During testing this week - I see that the dialog now displays a different, more confusing message:

 

 

This now indicates that "something" is happening and to come back in a bit and see what it is. When I come back into "About Microsoft Edge" 5 minutes or 10 minutes or any minutes after - the same message appears - yet the version of Edge installed does not change.

 

So - while the GP setting seems to work - it would just be nice if the user was told straight up that the updates are "Managed By your Organization" like this:

 

 

I also found out today that this message above only appears if Edge is running on a domain connected device. All of my user machines are in a workgroup and do not display this message.

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

 

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