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dandirk
Copper Contributor
Feb 28, 2020

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 restriction...
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DataWarrior21
Copper Contributor
Jan 25, 2021

We are looking for the same solution like in the Answers written before.


Our Company want a silent installation of one single Chrome Store Add-On by Policy on the customers computer. 
This Add-On should not be editable or removable from customers side. Customer should also be able to install other Add-On from Edge and Chrome Store for his own.

We tested already the "ExtensionInstallSources" linked to Chrome Store and also the "ExtensionInstallForcelist" to the needed Add-On.

It was not working in our configuration.

There are a lot more articles about this topic inside the Web.
Is there actually a working solution for this?

Thank you for the reply.

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DavydSantos
Copper Contributor
Apr 01, 2021

DataWarrior21 is it allowed at to have silent install at chrome? Reason for my ask is that google chrome deprecated this a while ago (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/inline_installation/).

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    DavydSantos
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    Apr 04, 2021

    ashishpoddar, sorry I misread it, so to give the full answer in-line installs are deprecated (sehttps://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/inline_installation/) and silent installs were deprecated even before that (see https://blog.chromium.org/2012/12/no-more-silent-extension-installs.html?m=1) 

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    ashishpoddar
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    Apr 04, 2021
    You are correct, the inline install method is not supported as per the link referred by you. However, note that inline installation is different from silent install.