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Copper Contributor

Nov 11, 2020

Edge Chromium and OnPrem Sync

Hi, We are running the newest stable version of Edge Chromium on Windows 10 We want to use On Prem Sync. We have created the following settings via GPO: RoamingProfileSupportEnabled = 1 Configure...

FlemmingL

Copper Contributor

Nov 16, 2020

mindst Thanks for your reply.

I don't understand your feedback. I wrote: Roaming profiles is not an option.

thola360

Copper Contributor

Nov 19, 2020

FlemmingL On-Premises Sync work by writing to and reading from the profile.pb file. If the file is not placed centrally (like on a File Share) where the user can access the file, then the file will have to be transferred manually to the same location on the other computer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-on-premises-sync#how-it-works

FlemmingL
Copper Contributor
Nov 19, 2020
thola360 Thanks for your feedback. I already now this.
I have a Support case running with Microsoft now. I will write the information back here when there is a solution.
- beanvee7
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 02, 2020
  This was working for us on Edge 85 but stopped on Edge 86. Seems the new sync options they added made it always prefer Azure sync over on prem sync