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Edge support on Server OS?
Thank youconalw and blomsterharry. We are working on bring Microsoft Edge to as many platforms as we can. We just released for macOS this week. It would help us understand the priority of various platforms if you could give us an idea of what scenarios we would unblock for you by bringing the browser to the various versions of Server. Thanks in advance for the feedback.
MicrosoftAs of this morning, I get this on Server 2016:
Thank youconalw and blomsterharry. We are working on bring Microsoft Edge to as many platforms as we can. We just released for macOS this week. It would help us understand the priority of various platforms if you could give us an idea of what scenarios we would unblock for you by bringing the browser to the various versions of Server. Thanks in advance for the feedback.
Any dates for Edge Chromium on server 2019? As we have large RDS session host farms that need it - Thank youElliot Kirk
GerryG, been loving it! There is (was?) a problem with Citrix but with straight RDP I think there is none.
Yes please. Elliot Kirk Do prioritize Windows Server 2016 and newer versions as soon as possible. And of course the possibility to run it in a terminal server environment.
Love to get rid of both IE and that "thing" from Google.
joakimv
"Love to get rid of both IE and that "thing" from Google."
Thanks, I always appreciate a good laugh and this ^ sure did the trick
IE reminds of a old nag that is put out to pasture, but, keeps trying to come back. "Git", already. Go enjoy your retirement, eat grass & be happy, lol. What?, does google have a "thing"? (wink)
Cheers,
Drew- Thing from Google is Google Chrome.
- Edge insider currently works well in TS (a.k.a VDI), tried it in both Server 2016 and 2019.
works as RemoteApp too.
- Mostly for terminal servers. Right now we hide IE and load chrome. I was hoping for a New Edge for terminal servers and for that full desktop server that needs a modern browser for application maintenance. On Server OS it's like that old google commercial, enable IE to download chrome because the only other option is IE which is no longer a viable browser but a compatibility solution. IMHO getting a modern browser on ServerOS should be higher that edge on the MacOS. I know I would use Edge on the Mac but I would probably be the minority. Most Mac users will use Safari or Chrome and will not switch to Edge.
I completely agree with your take Rob. IE is less relevant everyday and would love to use Edge in our Citrix environment.
thank you
Elliot Kirk We are rolling out our new Citrix environment and we are limping along with IE. So many sites don't work correctly with IE.
We are very interested in using the new Edge on our 2016 servers. it would cover all of our needs as we were going to Chrome unless we can get some encouragement from you you guys.
Attached is what we get for all web sites. in the screenshot the try for Google has been spinning for about 20 minutes. :(
Thank you,
- conalw
Elliot Kirk I work from home using a Surface Book running Win10 to RDP to a headless machine in a server farm (in MS building 88) that runs Server 2016. I can't use the new MS Edge because [a] sync'ing of bookmarks doesn't work with O365 business accounts, and [b] it no longer works at all on Server 2016. I've been dealing with [a] by ensuring that I only make changes to my bookmarks bar on one machine, then periodically manually export+import to other machine. However, Google Chrome does this correctly on all platforms so I've switched back to it for the time being.
That's great to hear!
Today we are using Google Chrome in our Citrix environment. But we would very much like to use Microsoft Edge instead, because we have a support agreement with Microsoft already, if we are experiencing any issues with Microsoft services. Then we could delete Google Chrome in our environment, if Microsoft Edge will be supported on Server OS. In our Citrix environment we are still using Server 2008 R2, but we are getting ready to get on Server 2016 instead (hopefully Server 2019 if Citrix will support it soon). So I would like to see Microsoft Edge on those Server OS.
Thanks for the answer.
