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Brass Contributor

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...

Ozboz

Brass Contributor

Oct 17, 2019

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.

MobyDude

Brass Contributor

Oct 17, 2019

Ozboz

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