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michaelketting
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Sep 18, 2019
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GPO for "Allow extensions from other store"

You can manually enable the option to get extensions from other stores. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Extensions-Chrome-or-Microsoft-Store/m-p/469515/highlight/true#M1602 Is ...
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    Shaecky
    Nov 27, 2019

    SteveSta 

     

    Forced extensions work without to opt-in the toggle. I tried twice with new profiles from the chrome store. I used the same gpo settings from Chrome to Edge

     

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smokie128
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Aug 12, 2020

ashishpoddar 

I was able to get everything working as intended in this way.

Anyone else doing this should be aware that this changes the extension ID's, which can lead to problems with extensions that use Native Messaging (e.g. KeePassXC-Browser) - in this case you'd have to add the correct extension ID into the Native Messaging JSON file as an allowed source.

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ashishpoddar
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Aug 12, 2020

smokie128  Glad to know. 

 

I didnt understand what you mean by "Anyone else doing this should be aware that this changes the extension ID's"

 

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