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Iron Contributor

Jan 09, 2020

Force Enable Sync Services

I know there is policies to disable sync, but I'm having troubles with users being auto-enabled for sync on their account. It would be optimal from an IT perspective if we could choose what services...

liambramwell

Copper Contributor

Jun 01, 2020

https://microsoftedge.uservoice.com/forums/928825-enterprise/suggestions/40337518-force-sync

Shaun1100

Copper Contributor

Oct 14, 2020

liambramwell yep this is a good start in the right direction. Works well with new users never having use edge on the PC before. Unfortunately though it appears as though it doesn't retrospectively enable sync to users that already have an edge profile on the machine that had sync disabled.

I'd appreciate if someone could prove me wrong because its quite annoying.

Dustin_Halvorson
Iron Contributor
Oct 14, 2020
Shaun1100 I agree. Bad implementation from what i can tell so far.
- kqf_chris
  Iron Contributor
  Oct 15, 2020
  Dustin_Halvorson
  
  Still waiting for this functionality. I made a forum post about this. See here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/enterprise/feature-request-force-sync-functionality-useless-gpo-needs-a/td-p/1758477
  - Shaun1100
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 19, 2020
    kqf_chris yeah interesting. We've made do with the "Configure the list of types that are excluded from synchronization" policy to disable syncing of things we don't allow. I guess we're then happy to leave it up to the user as to whether they'd like to turn off syncing of their favourites. I don't believe we have any need to force synchronization on anything in particular.