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Favorites and UEV support
I have the exact same problem. We live in Canada and run Health Care Computers so absolutely NEVER will they allow Americans or Azure to have any access at all as it violates Federal and provincial Security laws to have health care data accessible or stored on servers in the United States.
We want to get users off IE but we cannot until Chromium Edge supports Favorites stored on the users home drive through Folder Redirection of the Favorites folder. I have UEV as well.
Edge syncs great via gpo but the new Chromium Edge does not.
Also remember how idiotic Microsoft used to think storing hundreds of Favorites in one gigantic file was? That was why they NEVER designed IE to use a bookmarks file because it was dark ages technology used in Netscape 1.0.
Favorites that are easily accessible, easily createable and easily useable was the BEST thing about IE. We store on users home drives and so they are backed up and accessible after a profile rebuild.
To sync the bookmarks I created a UEV Template:
It works in our environment.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SettingsLocationTemplate xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/UserExperienceVirtualization/2012/SettingsLocationTemplate'>
<Name>MsEdge</Name>
<ID>MicrosoftEdge</ID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Author>
<Name>Tn,27.1.2020</Name>
</Author>
<Processes>
<Process>
<Filename>msedge.exe</Filename>
</Process>
</Processes>
<Settings>
<File>
<Root>
<EnvironmentVariable>LOCALAPPDATA</EnvironmentVariable>
</Root>
<Path>Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default</Path>
<FileMask>Bookmarks</FileMask>
</File>
</Settings>
</SettingsLocationTemplate>
Makigai How long has this been in operation?
Thilo Langbein , oh well, not for a long time, I had tested it for two hours and it worked well 🙂
