Recent Edge Chromium beta/dev organization user problems

I have now used Edge Chromium for months, since I changed from Google Chrome. And I have also installed it on my work computer, but signed in with my private outlook user. Until recently Edge Beta on my work computer were separat from my work user and everything were good.

In December I changed computer, and with the new PC I had some problems setting up my privat user profile in Edge Beta, but after some tries it worked (but already back then suddenly my work user were also a profile I could not remove, since Edge Beta uses the Windows 10 user profiles (sadly)). I have had some problems with my new PC, so today I once more got a new PC.

When I then tried to install and setup my Edge Beta/dev again, I can no longer make a profile for my private user, the Active Directory politics now stops me from doing so. So I cannot do any kind of syncing with my private profile, since profile simply cannot be added. I can only make profiles that are linked to my work, which of course my privat profile is not.

Is this due to the policies at my work has changed, or due to changes in Edge Beta that now much closer links the browser to Win10 user profiles?

For me this really sucks! As it is now one of the main reasons for me going over to Edge Beta are gone; I can as the situation is now, no longer use Edge Beta with my privat user at work (in other words no syncing of any kind).

Avi Vaid
Jan 21, 2020
JarleH This is likely due to policies set by your admin. Is the add profile option here missing for you? If so, you need to contact your admin to request them to set the BrowserAddProfile policy to enabled

Avi Vaid
Microsoft
Jan 21, 2020
JarleH This is likely due to policies set by your admin. Is the add profile option here missing for you? If so, you need to contact your admin to request them to set the BrowserAddProfile policy to enabled
- JarleH
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 22, 2020
  Avi Vaid btw, no that is not the problem.
  
  I can make a new profile, but I cannot log on to an account not connected to my work organization
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Jan 22, 2020
    Well it's the same, you can make offline accounts of course but all the data stay in your computer and won't leave it.
    
    I didn't say that you can't make offline accounts, I only said you can't "sign in using Private MSA" without your system administrator's permission.
    
    now just to be sure, paste this into your browser address bar and tell me what you see:
    edge://policy/
- JarleH
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 22, 2020
  Thanks both of you!
  
  I HOPE this is a setting set by default and not as a decided policy, because if not, I will likely not be given rights...
HotCakeX
MVP
Jan 21, 2020
Hi,
they are due to the policies set by your work organization that you can't sign in using private Microsoft accounts.
you should contact your system administrator and ask them to make an exception for your computer.

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