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rishavsharan
Microsoft
MicrosoftHow to hide the First Run Experience in the new Microsoft Edge?
One of the most frequent Enterprise asks around the new First Run Experience has been for a way to hide the new First Run Experience.
It could be that you do not want your users to change these con...
rishavsharan We are exactly in the same situation as mentioned in this thread. We realy need to push out Edge as the default browser in our company (a large hospital). But we realy need to get rid off the first run.
According to https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule a stable release for version 80 was yesterday? Is that correct? So we can expect a download link within a few days for version 80 (Stable) right?
We are in the same situation: we are using the stable Edge 79 version with the AutoAutoImportAtFirstRun option on a small group of machines, and I was waiting for version 80 which incorporates the deactivation of the first experience. So we were ready to deploy Edge 80 on all of our 2,500 machines, but AutoAutoImportAtFirstRun no longer works ... I don't understand that successive beta versions of the 80 have not corrected this problem, and we are now told to wait for version 81 ?! Is there not a possible workaround (registry)?
Hi again!
Yes, it (all problems I described here) do work now as expected.
More thanks to all, Alar.Hi and thanks!
Thought it might be something related to domain-joined story. Computer I tried new Edge on is not domain-joined. I’ll give a try, thanks.
More thanks, Alar.I had just downloaded the admx templates last week and that was the date on the files, I grabbed the new ones today and see those have the hidefirstrun in them
beeryurt Just goto https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download and download them. Then you have the new admx with the option to disable the FirstRunExperience. 😉
beeryurt I don't know what "change" you are talking about, and I have no idea what "1/23" means, but you find the most actual ADMX-Templates here. Regarding Homepage etc... there was no change since v77 to v80:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download
MSAlf Are your machines Domain-Joined?
If not, read my blog-post to solve this:
https://hitco.at/blog/apply-edge-policies-for-non-domain-joined-devices/HomePageLocation and NewTabPageLocation policy and DefaultSearchProviderEnabled - “This policy is blocked - its value will be ignored.”.
DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL – “Ignored because default search isn't enabled.”.
Some policies more blocked.Windows 10 Pro.
Alar.Hi and thanks!
Oh, yes, meaning, no, this policy wasn’t listed at all, my fault. “edge://policy”. Yes, splash screen is gone, using now latest .50.
(1) Home page is probably imported from legacy, but via GPO is defined another one, but Edge still opens imported one.
(2) Also, something we can do about New Tab? Meaning, set something by own, instead of this … Google, Netflix etc. row.
(3) I couldn’t et default search also as Google, sorry to admit, still Bing.
More thanks, Alar.- rishavsharan
Can you confirm if the policy is active at all?
goto edge://policy and see if the defined value is being read by the browser. If this policy is not there, there may be some issue in how you have set the policy on your device. Hi!
Well, I’m at 80.0.361.48 Stable, just installed yesterday, but … still this flying around stylized „e“ appear on first run, even it’s disabled via GPO. Also, first run home page is still taken from legacy Edge (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/enterprise/edge-chromium-start-page-is-taken-from-old-edge/m-p/1142808) which is replaced with Chromium.
Probably I missed something?
Sure, no moving to production till this kind of problems solved, including new tab as blank one or custom home page set.
More thanks, Alar.I can confirm the "First Run" issue is solved in version 80 (Stable) with the GPO setting.
I deployed v79 without the Policy to hide FirstRunExperience and used a PowerShell-Script to preconfigure EdgeChromium-FirstRunExperience.ps1
you find my Script here:
https://github.com/gunnarhaslinger/Microsoft-Edge-based-on-Chromium-Scripts
Maybe this can help you out.
