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Peter Dennington
Jan 09, 2020Brass Contributor
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 g...
- Jan 28, 2020Reading 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
WB2019
Jan 16, 2020Brass Contributor
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
- HotCakeXJan 28, 2020MVPThe 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
- Peter DenningtonJan 28, 2020Brass Contributor
HotCakeX I'm trying to find a way to turn of automatic sign in with local AD and use Azure AD instead.
- HotCakeXJan 28, 2020MVPReading 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
- Peter DenningtonJan 28, 2020Brass Contributor
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.