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lforbes
Iron Contributor
Jun 19, 2020

Edge Group Policy BUG with New TAB PAGE - RECOMMENDED is getting ENFORCED and not changeable.

MissyQ  Any update on the fix for this? I have 85,000 hospital computers we want to switch from IE to Chromium Edge. However, this bug is still outstanding.  When we set the New Tab Page Location...
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lforbes
Iron Contributor
Dec 18, 2020

lforbes 

MissyQ  any updates on this? This needs to be fixed. It is a bug. How else can we report bugs?

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MissyQ
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Dec 18, 2020

lforbes Hey, Lara! Thanks for the friendly ping on this. I've moved this thread to the Enterprise section of our forums and reached out to Kelly_Y for follow up.

 

Typically, it's best to report bugs through support options that we have available. In the case for bugs with Insider channels, you can reach out to our Insider Support team; they are small and specialize in handling both Insider and Enterprise inquiries, and can help out much faster than those of us on the team can. My team is also a very small team (there's only 3 of us across several different platforms), and things like this can get missed sometimes. I truly do appreciate the poke to resurface this, though, and Kelly should be able to help you out further. 🙂

 

Missy Quarry (she/her/hers)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

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    Kelly_Y
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    Dec 18, 2020

    Thanks, MissyQ !

     

    Hi lforbes - Thanks for reaching out!  It is the expected behavior for the NewTabPageLocation Policy to function as mandatory when setting to recommended.  The documentation (Microsoft Edge Browser Policy Documentation | Microsoft Docs) for the policy has been updated.  

     

    Please let us know if you have any other questions! 

     

    -Kelly

     

    • lforbes's avatar
      lforbes
      Iron Contributor
      May 16, 2022
      Hi Kelly

      This needs to be added to SETTINGS as a user changeable setting.

      This policy should work as expected and be a Recommended, but NOT enforced policy.

      I get that Microsoft wants to advertise and push advertisements from their New Tab Page down on people whether they want them or not, but that interferes with business ability to conduct business effectively without their WAN links being spammed by advertising to people at work.

      Please provide the ability in Settings to CHOOSE a website like we could in Internet Explorer.

      Internet Explorer is gone as of next month and so far Edge cannot function like it yet despite the IE age.
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      AndrewSAIF
      Iron Contributor
      Dec 22, 2020

      Kelly_Y 

       

      Hi Kelly,

       

      Thanks for pointing out the documentation has been updated for this policy. It looks like there is more than one thread for this issue:
      Users not allowed to change Recommenced Policy - Microsoft Tech Community

      The wording of the documentation ("currently") makes it sound like this is still a temporary bug that will be fixed eventually. I have a few vocal users that would love to change their new tab page to something other than what I'm setting in policy. Even if there's no ETA, is a fix for this still in the works? 

      Andrew

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        Kelly_Y
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        Dec 22, 2020

        AndrewSAIF Hi Andrew!  I will check with the team if there are any future plans to change the behavior, though it might be after the holidays before I can get some information.  We'll follow up if we can get any insights.  Thanks! 

         

        -Kelly

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