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htcfreek
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Feb 26, 2020
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Feature request: gpo to hide settings page "edge://settings/devices"

Hi.   In the settings of Microsoft edge there is a page to advertise for the mobile apps. In our company we want to hide this page.   We are a public administration and our employees are no...
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    Kelly_Y
    Feb 25, 2021

    htcfreek Todd Miller RaymondT2004 FloHB abadiya  Thanks everyone for your patience! 

     

    We just had a recent update and starting with version 90.0.796.0+ the page/section in Settings will be completely hidden when either SignIn or Sync are set to disabled via Group Policy. The section won't show up in the navigation page in settings and the URL to get to this page will also not work (the user will just be redirected to the root of the Settings experience).  Hopefully this will help address some of the concerns!  

     

    -Kelly

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FloHB
Brass Contributor
May 19, 2020

htcfreek Did you ever successfully blocked that URL with the GPO "Block access to a list of URLs"? It doesn't work for me. Build: 81.0.416.77

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htcfreek
Iron Contributor
May 20, 2020
FloHB
I didn't test that. I only thought this could be a solution and write it here.
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    RaymondT2004
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 03, 2020

    htcfreek 

     

    I just checked the "Block access to a list of URLs" GPO description and it explicitly states that:

    "Note that blocking internal 'edge://*' URLs isn't recommended - this may lead to unexpected errors"

     

    Did a quick test with the GPO setting; actually it only prevents you from opening the page via typing the URL in the address bar directly; it does not prevent you from accessing it via navigating in the setting menu

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