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Brass Contributor

Dec 15, 2019

Group policy to disable the "Welcome to the new Microsoft Edge" dialog from FirstRun wizard

Any chance you could provide a group policy to hide the FirstRun Get Started dialog? In a managed environment it's largely redundant, or at least will be. Also more often then not these changes are c...

Copper Contributor

Jan 17, 2020

How are we looking for this with the recent release of the stable version of Edge?

Brass Contributor

Jan 17, 2020

According to the docs the policy is slated for a realease in version 80, stable is version 79 so we probably have to wait for the first update:

Hide the First-run experience and splash screen

Supported Versions: Microsoft Edge on Windows and Mac since version 80 or later

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hidefirstrunexperience

rishavsharan
Microsoft
Jan 17, 2020
Nice sleuthing. 😄
The current plan is to push it out in E80 stable. We are on track so far.

You should be able to test it right now in Beta/Dev and Canary channels
- MSITAdmin1
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 29, 2020
  rishavsharanDid you guys ever create a gpo setting to disable this? If so, what is the name of the setting?
  - Kelly_Y
    Microsoft
    Dec 31, 2020
    MSITAdmin1 Hello! The HideFirstRunExperience Policy was released in V80. Here is a link to our documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hidefirstrunexperience
    
    Thanks!
    
    -Kelly
- JornMich
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 29, 2020
  rishavsharan I'd like to deploy this setting using Endpoint Manager, is there any idea on when this is being deployed? The article above seems to mention only ADMX and reg key settings.
  - Amarjeet1040
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 29, 2020
    JornMich I don't think the policy has any effect on any version below 80. I tried the reg key settings and only the Beta Edge honored the "HideFirstRunExperience" reg value. Stable build does not honor this setting.

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