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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...

ShepEd

Copper Contributor

May 19, 2022

~~Just done some testing on this and as far as I can see all this works.~~

I Have enforced home page, new tab page both to intranet. I have enforced behaviour on start-up to be "open list of pages" and I have added a list of pages into the "Micrsosoft edge - default settings (users can override)" section of GP settings.

~~seems to work fine.~~

~~What I want to do though is to enforce the ones in the list but allow users to add more if they so wished.~~

Daniel Smith
Brass Contributor
May 19, 2022
ShepEd Just to be clear, we "can" set the location of the new tab page's URL via GPO. What's missing is the ability for the end-user to alter our initial default and set the new tab page to whatever they'd prefer.
- ShepEd
  Copper Contributor
  May 20, 2022
  Daniel Smith
  
  My bad... sorry. I am trying to achieve something similar but subtly different and applied my thinking to this issue. yep I see your point. sorry for confusion. Hope this gets sorted for you all soon!