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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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Daniel Persson
Brass Contributor
Jun 17, 2020

Having issues with this as well.

My goal is to silently install an extension from Chrome Web Store.

 

I have added to the Extension ID to the ExtensionInstallAllowlist.

Configured ExtensionInstallAllowlist to *

And added the Extension ID to ExtensionInstallForcelist.

But the extension isn't installed automatically.

 

If I do the same with an extension that is published in the Microsoft Edge Store, then its silently installed.

In addition I tried to manually configure ExtensionInstallSources via registry with https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicrosoftedge.microsoft.com%2Faddons%2F*&data=02%7C01%7CAndre.Oliveira%40microsoft.com%7Cc96b09842d974dfdb4e708d7c69ced71%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637196249621702170&sdata=Z5PbZQvd8ZDJwO%2BwIaHXrSNVjDJaICTTWDLNht%2FAuKQ%3D&reserved=0 and https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google.com%2Fwebstore%2F*&data=02%7C01%7CAndre.Oliveira%40microsoft.com%7Cc96b09842d974dfdb4e708d7c69ced71%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637196249621702170&sdata=dgGZ9XJjLWDRsEv%2B7ooqaAAOzzihDLPgz9A3lP6x9b4%3D&reserved=0 but it didn't help.

 

The user can manually install the extension after enabling Allow extensions from other store.

 

Is there more to it?

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ashishpoddar
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Apr 04, 2021

Daniel Persson 

For force installing an extension hosted in the Chrome web store use a string such in the the ExtensionInstallForcelist policy. Remember to use a separate line for each extension that you want to forceinstall.  as: pckdojakecnhhplcgfflhndiffaohfah;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx.