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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...
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.
rishavsharanMicrosoft
MicrosoftCan 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 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.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.
