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Unable to remove profile
I had to reinstall Edge as I had an issue but when I started the browser back up it automatically created a profile tied to my domain account / pc profile and I am unable to remove it as it doesn't give the option.
I checked the GPOs I have enabled and none seem to be the cause of this.
Anyone know how to remove this or stop this happening?
- Reading through all the Edge group policies available, looks like that local AD profile will be created either way but you can use this policy to control whether you can remove it or not
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#nonremovableprofileenabled
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As far as I can tell this is a deliberate design choice by the Edge team, Edge Legacy has always done the same thing if you sign into Windows with a consumer account. AAD SSO is a handy feature for users, but there's no way to justify taking away control from the user over their own account and identity choices. If I had to guess it's driven by a desire to be able to track users the web across by ensuring their Microsoft/AAD account cookies are always present. Peter Dennington
- The local on-prem Active directory can't provide sync functionality, you would need some kind of database like SQL server, locally available for that, which is kinda overkill
HotCakeX I'm trying to find a way to turn of automatic sign in with local AD and use Azure AD instead.
WB2019 The problem is the profile is the local AD account not the AAD account. Also for some reason this is stopping sync being enabled.
I have had the same problem, haven't been able to delete the auto created work/domain account.
- Hi,
Which Edge insider channel?
the newly created profile is a work account, right?HotCakeX Issue is on both Dev and Beta.
Yes the profile is a work account.
- It shouldn't happen in Dev (81) because the developers said they fixed it a long time ago, it's an old problem
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/edge-canary-79-0-307-0-cant-sign-out-or-delete-profile/m-p/918170
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/user-and-session-restore-edge-canary/m-p/920931
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/unexpectedly-signed-in-as-work-account-after-update-dev-79-0-308/m-p/934058
