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Favorites and UEV support
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
- re UEV, yep, thats what we went to after testing. Work folders gives us the full offline benefits - and we only use UEV for a small set of apps - interestingly no MS apps 😉
At the moment I can only advise MS that we will not extend testing of new Edge until an enterprise bookmarks solution is available,FYI this is also being discussed at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/keep-favorites-synced-between-internet-explorer-and-edge-not/m-p/1120727, where it appears Microsoft is adding support for Chromium's RoamingProfileSupportEnabled feature to help backup the bookmarks to another location. Posting here in case anyone isn't aware of the other thread.
