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Favorites and UEV support
I Agree - however the situation is not so clear - In Chrome it is possible to only save bookmarks by enabling the GPO settings:
- Enable the creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data: Enabled
- Set the roaming profile directory: Enabled
- Set the roaming profile directory: ${documents}\Google\Chrome
This creates a single very small file called profile.pb in the specified folder. We use work folders to sync the Documents Library. For IE we redirect Favorites library to the workfolders location.
Now for EdgeBeta it only appears possible to change the option 'Set the User data directory' which defines the location of 'default' which contains a whole load of files and folders (in my case 112MB) and hidden amongst this is the bookmarks file. By default this is saved under AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\Default. It doesnt look like a nice solution to replicate all of this -
So the request to the Devs is Please use Chromes profile handling or another configurable option to only preserve bookmarks in a defined location.
Hi
The GPO you mention for Chrome is for Enterprise roaming and there is a published UEV template for it. It works just fine.
What we're asking for is for the devs to re-instate profile.pb enterprise mode (or sync bookmarks with IE as an option) and publish a UEV template (the same Chrome one would probably work anyway).
We're a 1,100 user site that has stuck with Edge - through all of its problems and even clearly bits of Office 365 only working for Chrome rather than MS's own browser.
I think it shouts loudly that we have had no response from the developers or any MS person here. It seems the new Edge is being leveraged to upsell and feed Microsoft's agenda of selling AAD Premium than actually making things work in the enterprise. Who here has $30,000 for AAD Premium and the extra engineering time to maintain hybrid AD join (clearing up and maintaining device records and so forth) just to get bookmarks roaming?
The new Edge will actually push us to Chrome, and I suspect many enterprises are in a similar position...
Mobydude
Indeed - the chrome Enterprise roaming settings work great. IE Favorites - folder redirection works great.
We are using UEV, but to be honest it doesnt work very well (inconsistent for printers, chrome, drive maps etc), and using workfolder sync allows us to sync documents, favorites, desktop libraries etc very nicely. So using Chrome profile.pb allowed me to switch off the UEV settings for Chrome, and after clearing up the settingsfolders, chrome start times dropped dramatically!
I'm also asking for profile.pb implementation in Edge Beta!
I Just finished testing the Edge Beta setting 'set user data directory' and it correctly uses the folder I set, but fills it with caches folders and blocks work folders from syncing because of multiple file locks.
This is an Enterprise show stopper - 30K+ seats
UEV should be able to pull the bookmarks file out from the mess, and thats all we want to preserve, can try creating your own XML for edge beta, and defining the service and files to preserve, but we also want to eventually drop UEV so are not using it for new implementations/apps.
So a separate definable bookmarks location please, and the rest of the data should be transient data that should be left in appdata local.
Hi - a bit off-topic - we really like UEV. No delays starting Chrome using UEV, even when working across DirectAccess connections. We wouldn't dream of using it for printers or drive maps, as IMHO that's better handled via GPO/GPP or logon script...
Because of the UEV timeout mechanism, users can work onsite, offline or via DirectAccess and still have a good user experience.
Ta... MobyDude
Ozboz If there is no solution for the bookmarks, we think about going to Chrome. Paying Azure AD P1 for all users, to roam favorites is no option for us.
