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MobyDude
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Oct 11, 2019

Favorites and UEV support

Hi,   The old Edge has a Group Policy setting to set Favorites to be shared with Internet Explorer - which was good. When someone had to switch to IE, their Favorites were still there.   We're al...
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Ozboz
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MobyDude 

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.

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Thilo Langbein
Iron Contributor
Oct 17, 2019

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.

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