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Iron Contributor

Jan 10, 2020

Default Search Provider policies - recommended vs mandatory

It looks like it is only possible to set a default search provider as a mandatory policy. It would be useful to us if we could set this as a recommended policy so we could set the most popular choice...

FreekBloemhof

Brass Contributor

Jan 14, 2020

baig79 not sure how you managed this, because the settings are in the Policies key in registry it is for the user impossible to alter it ?

I'm with AndrewSAIF that this would be a nice update.

baig79

Copper Contributor

Jan 15, 2020

FreekBloemhof

Hi, I have attached a screen shot.

It is defined in User Configuration.

It sets DefaultSearchProviderEnabled(HKLM) to 1 if default_search_provider_data.template_url_data(HKCU) does not exist.

I have also enabled in policy Microsoft Edge/Default search provider these values:

- Default search provider name

- Default search provider search URL

- Default search provider URL for suggestions

Shaecky
Copper Contributor
Mar 02, 2020
Exactly what I was looking for ! I would like a recommended GPO (no mandatory one) but that will be enough. Miss just to force sync bookmarks on the first run

Thank you
solth
Brass Contributor
Jan 16, 2020
baig79
Maybe I'm missing something but this will only set the default until default_search_provider_data.template_url_data is set, which happens on my machine right at first launch. So as soon as I restart Edge, Bing is set as the default search engine again.
FreekBloemhof
Brass Contributor
Jan 15, 2020
Ah, nice find!

Won't work for us because of a RDS (multi session) deployment.