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Edge forcing switch profiles when using any .local domain or IP address
there is an icon on the URL bar
Selecting this allowed me to choose in which profile I want to open that specific website, including .local and IP addresses.
I wish Microsoft made this a bit more evident as it is a new feature. I just noticed this as on my 4th machine I was prompted to select the profile I wanted. In 3 other machines, I was not prompted.
Although using that icon works, since it's defining the preference at the site-specific level, you'll have to do it for every local site you access on your intranet.
That may be sufficient for your use case... However, I was able to confirm that adding the registry key from the docs will work to revert to the previous behavior for all sites.- Any idea of how to set this on others OS ? Like MacOS or Linux, as we have no registry, I suppose the policies are defined in some kind of file ?
- On MacOS the policy is configured via XML. The key for MacOS is below the Windows info in the link I shared earlier: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#switchintranetsitestoworkprofile
You'd have to put that key/value in a .plist file like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-microsoft-edge-on-mac
As far as Linux, I couldn't find anything in the MS Edge docs, but I found this post that shows doing it via creating a JSON file in a specific location: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/global-profile-configuration-on-linux/m-p/2432228/highlight/true#M47993
Hope that helps!
AlexB I don't see that icon anywhere. I looked at the profile preferences but nothing there either.
- Actually it is there sometimes. Some addresses show it, others not, for example 192.168.2.64 pops to another windows and shows me the icon. And 192.168.2.1 remains in the same profile and does not show the icon. No idea what the logic is behind this.
Thank you, this worked for me!
The people responsible at Microsoft really outdid themselves this time.
