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rishavsharan
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Feb 01, 2020

How 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...
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MSAlf
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Feb 12, 2020

rishavsharan

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.

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MSAlf
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Feb 12, 2020

MSAlf 

I’m too hasty, there is some errors in policy, I’ll report back.
Alar.

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    MSAlf
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    Feb 13, 2020

    Gunnar-Haslinger

    Hi again!
    Yes, it (all problems I described here) do work now as expected.
    More thanks to all, Alar.

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    MSAlf
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    Feb 13, 2020

    Gunnar-Haslinger

    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.

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    MSAlf
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    Feb 12, 2020

    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.

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