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AutoImportAtFirstRun policy no longer imports favorites
- Feb 05, 2020Quick update. This has been fixed and the fix should be out in canary.
The same will land in stable in E81.
AndrewSAIF Joachim_T rishavsharan
"Funny" story... Today I was discussing deployment plans with my CTO and Director, and the Director asked if we'll be able to transfer our favorites from IE to Edge. I said "we're way past importing favorites, easy button"... oh am I eating those words now. I was excited to see that First Run can now be disabled, but it seems at the cost of auto-importing Favorites... super disappointing (and scary to be honest). I have sold the new Edge to my executives, please Microsoft development team, let's make this a successful venture! In any case, I am delaying the deployment to our enterprise now, which is disheartening. I digress.
We are on stable release Version 80.0.361.62 (Official build) (64-bit). Automatically import another browser's data etc is Enabled and Import Favorites is Not Configured (tried Enabled as well).
I just don't understand how this gets past 3 development versions into a stable version.
#Following #Concerned #Anxious
- Joachim_TMar 10, 2020Iron Contributor
Just tested the new Beta 81.0.416.28. And yes finaly it worked. A few seconds after the first start with a new profile "AutoImportAtFirstRun" at least did what it should do and all my favorites from IE11 are imported automatically.
Maybe you should test and confirm this for your environments
hope my information and our telco helped to fix this.
- rishavsharanMar 10, 2020MicrosoftWe are still testing the fixes but yes, this specific issue which was impacting some of you, should now be resolved. Do try the latest Canary.
Joachim_T and dkirchberger you information was indeed very helpful in finding and fixing this issue,- dkirchbergerMar 10, 2020Copper Contributor
- Allan RaymondDec 16, 2020Copper Contributor
We've been testing in our environment, and it this doesn't seem to be working again. We tried version 87.0.664.55 x64.
- Allan RaymondDec 18, 2020Copper Contributor
We kept digging and figure out our mistake. The short story is built right into the name of the policy. If folks have run Edge before, this won't import favorites. We've found deleting %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\First Run causes the first run experience to trigger again.
Sorry for the confusion. We have a group looking to set Edge as the preferred default and are trying to make that transition as smooth as possible.
Good luck!