Edge UpdatePolicy - Disable automatic updates leads to "Microsoft Edge is out of Date"

Hey Kelly_Y,

As there were some new customer-Tickets opened the last days I did some more debugging and compared "old" machines which seem to work fine with newer ones which have this issue.

MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.log doesn't give any hints. Log of machines having this issue look exactly the same like machines which are fine.

I compared the Registry Key/Values of EdgeUpdate in depth and found the solution as follows:

This setting works fine:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\ClientState\{56EB18F8-B008-4CBD-B6D2-8C97FE7E9062}]
"brand"="GCEU"

But on the newer machines having this issue the value "brand" is configured "GGLS" instead of "GCEU". I tried it both ways:

• I configured a good machine to "brand"="GGLS" => Restart Edge => Brings warnings. => configured back to "brand"="GCEU" => Restart Edge => No Warning, OK.
• I configured a "bad" machine which has this issue from "brand"="GGLS" to "brand"="GCEU" => OK, after restarting Edge the warning doesn't pop up again, Problem solved.

According to docs.microsoft.com - Windows diagnostic events and fields this value seems to  have following semantic: appBrandCode The 4-digit brand code under which the the product was installed, if any. Possible values: 'GGLS' (default), 'GCEU' (enterprise install), and '' (unknown).

Both Machines are Windows 10 Enterprise v1909, same hotfixes applied. I have no Idea why "brand" is configured "GGLS" in the newer installed ones. But I have the idea that this is because of EdgeHTML was replaced by EdgeChromium out of the box on the newer Installation-ISO-media which is used for our unattended deployment. Seems the included EdgeChromium in the new ISO-Image has this preconfigured in a wrong way?