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kamild1996

Copper Contributor

Jan 16, 2020

Solved

MS Edge 79.0.309.65 on Windows 7 - Internet Explorer mode: unsupported

Running Windows 7 Professional x64. All updates from Microsoft Update installed, optional or not. As per advice on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/deployedge/edge-ie-mode, I made sure both https:/...

edge

Internet Explorer

mindst
Jan 17, 2020
kamild1996

It opens in Edge tab for me, not separate internet explorer. What policies do you have?
I have these visible under edge://policy

kamild1996

Copper Contributor

Jan 17, 2020

EDIT: I'd like to mention some more details:
- In terms of Windows 7 monthly rollups, I have installed not just the older, linked KB4507437 from July 16, 2019, but also the latest monthly rollup from January 14, 2020 (KB4534310)
- Yes, the computer has been restarted (several times) after installing all the updates.
- Despite the IE mode showing as "unsupported", when I try to open a site present in the Enterprise Mode Site List, a separate Internet Explorer window with that page opens. So it seems it somewhat works, but I expected the page to open in IE mode, internally within Edge, just like another tab. Is this expected behaviour for Windows 7?

mindst
Iron Contributor
Jan 17, 2020
kamild1996

It opens in Edge tab for me, not separate internet explorer. What policies do you have?
I have these visible under edge://policy
- kamild1996
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 17, 2020
  The only policy present in edge://policy is "InternetExplorerIntegrationLevel", which is set to "2" in my case.
  I see the difference between your and my setting, let me try changing that...
  
  So, that was it... I misconfigured it, I changed the policy to a different setting so it now shows "1" in edge://policy and now it works, thank you 🙂
  It works, even though edge://compat/iediagnostic still shows "unsupported"... Sounds like a bug, doesn't it? This is what ultimately didn't make me consider my group policy might have been set the wrong way.