View .VSDX file in Edge

Hi all, Hope I am in the right space, sorry if I am not. One of my customers wants to be able to view local .vsdx files in Edge as they did in IE before. Edge does start in IE mode, and the f...

stephanschnider

Copper Contributor

Jun 22, 2022

We have the same issue here.

According to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-visio-viewer-to-view-or-print-visio-drawings-08cce46e-d5f2-460a-86c3-679c32dca94a there are Edge GPOs that can be set as follow:

- InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileExtensionAllowList\1 = *.vsdx
- InternetExplorerIntegrationLevel = 1 (IEMode)
- InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileShowContextMenu = 1

But the VSDX files are still trying to open in Internet Explorer. We are using 102.0.1245.39 (Edge Extended Stable) and Windows 10 20H2.

Yevgeny

Copper Contributor

Jan 17, 2023

Same issue, found a fix from a reddit forum - https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/n2vbiu/request_visio_viewer_in_microsoft_edge/

Create a new registry file with the below settings and do a regular open rather than open with

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VisioViewer.Viewer\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe\" -ie-mode-file-url -- \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
"InternetExplorerIntegrationLevel"=dword:00000001
"InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileAllowed"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalFileExtensionAllowList]
"1"=".vdw"
"2"=".vdx"
"3"=".vss"
"4"=".vssx"
"5"=".vsd"
"6"=".vsdm"
"7"=".vsdx"
"8"=".vst"
"9"=".vstm"
"10"=".vstx"
"11"=".vsx"
"12"=".vtx"

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View .VSDX file in Edge