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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
HotCakeX
Jan 28, 2020MVP
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
Peter Dennington
Jan 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- KeenLogicFeb 17, 2020Copper Contributor
HotCakeX I set this policy to be NonRemovableProfileEnabled = false, but I cannot find anything that will allow me to remove the local AD profile from the browser.
- HotCakeXFeb 19, 2020MVP
KeenLogic wrote:HotCakeX I set this policy to be NonRemovableProfileEnabled = false, but I cannot find anything that will allow me to remove the local AD profile from the browser.
Do you not have this option?
You can also try going to the User Data directory and delete the folder containing data of that profile
you can find it from here: edge://version/
look for: Profile path
- Peter DenningtonJan 29, 2020Brass Contributor
HotCakeX Thanks, that looks like the best solution for now so will give it a go.
- HotCakeXJan 29, 2020MVPYou're welcome 🙂