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Russell Meyer
Dec 03, 2021Brass Contributor
Custom User Agent Strings
I know the chromium project is deprecating user agent string in lieu of user agent hints, and since edge is based off of that, can we assume it will follow suit? Is this why there is no option in Edg...
Russell Meyer
Dec 03, 2021Brass Contributor
Kelly, thanks for the reply but that really doesnt answer my question in full. What about the ability to alter this information outside of the development tools at an Enterprise level, similar to GPOs did for IE?
Kelly_Y
Microsoft
Dec 03, 2021Russell Meyer Are you referring to the Enterprise Mode and the Enterprise Mode Site List? My understanding was in IE11 the list was used to determine the compatibility mode for a site but not the UA String or maybe there is another IE Policy 🙂
I'm not sure which browser your organization is currently using but websites developed for IE should work in Microsoft Edge through IE mode. Since it sounds like you are having a compatibility issue please feel free to reach out to the App Assure team for remediation assistance (ACHELP@microsoft.com) and help with your specific scenario. Thanks!
-Kelly
- Russell MeyerDec 04, 2021Brass Contributor
We are trying to get folks over to MS Edge Chromium, and we do leverage IE Compatibility XMLs for legacy sites that are still transitioning...This issue is we want to continue to leverage edge but with select MS Applications like ADFS, we need to inject a custom string so that it will force forms based auth...now I know you mentioned IE compatibility XML, yes we can put the adfs server in that however due to the engine flipping back and forth it looses the auth and identity so we have to put all sites for exchange online and other 365 sites in the IE XML which is not ideal as we lose features...I recognize this is an edge case (no pun intended) but I have been asking MS for some time (few years and cases) and have yet to get an answer on user agent strings future...ideally this could be also solved if the ADFS would allow a way to force select groups to forms based auth (again multiple cases and years)
- Kelly_YDec 06, 2021
Microsoft
Russell Meyer Sounds like it's been a while you've been chasing down these issues. Somethings that might help with authentication if you are moving over to Microsoft Edge and using IE mode is configuring neutral sites or using cookie sharing.
Here is some documentation:
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode-sitelist#configure-neutral-sites
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode-faq#incomplete-neutral-site-configurations
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode-add-guidance-cookieshare
And like I mentioned, if you need help with your issue the App Assure team https://aka.ms/AppAssure can help with your problem.
-Kelly
- Russell MeyerDec 07, 2021Brass Contributorso did the cookie thing and that worked! however there appears to be a delay when loading IE mode and user agent strings...I have a GPO that specifies the useragent string for IE...initial page load in IE tosses edge UserAgent info, but upon refresh it shows correct info...going to test canary and beta builds