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Edge Policy REQ: Allow Extensions from other stores
An Edge policy to enable/disable "Allow extensions from other stores." would be very helpful.
We currently use the allow extensions policy, in addition to allowed lists, and url/store restrictions. Some allowed extensions are from the Chrome store.
Though using these requires this additional manual step to actually install the extension.
ashishpoddarMicrosoft
We have added some details on how to manage extensions and that convers the use case to disable extensions from Chrome Web Store. Check out these links and share your feedback.
1. Getting ready to manage extensions: https://aka.ms/Gettingreadytomanageextensions
2. Policies to manage extensions in your enterprise https://aka.ms/ExtensionsGroupPolicies
3. Creating your own extension store https://aka.ms/EnterpriseStoreThis switch still appears to be off by default. Is there any way to toggle the switch to "enabled"? This would help reduce issues many are seeing.
dandirk Thanks for reaching out! To confirm, are you using Microsoft Edge on an Enterprise account? And if so, can you provide some more details about how an enable/disable policy would be beneficial?
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted
Correct yes we are using Edge with our Azure/Enterprise accounts (hybrid join, MEMCM co-managed etc).
We currently white list approved extensions... In order to install an approved extension from Chrome Web Store, users need to turn that flag on manually.
We would like the option to set this for them, reduce one more self-config step and secure with other methods (allowed extensions/stores etc).
Another option would be to exclude approved extensions from that security check so the option could still be off but still allow installation. This is the behavior for forced extension installations...
What a coincidence. I was just looking at exactly this today and was met with the exact same issue ... no way to enable that switch.
There was already another discussion over at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/enterprise/gpo-for-quot-allow-extensions-from-other-store-quot/m-p/860733 about this but they never came to anything close to a solution.
I've also opened a case regarding this, if that helps anyone.
