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stesch79
Iron Contributor
Jul 23, 2019
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Adobe Reader integration

Hi team   How can we enable the Adobe Reader as the default PDF handler in Edge or disable the internal PDF viewer? We appreciate your efforts regards PDF handling, but Adobe Reader is still requir...
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    stesch79
    May 04, 2020

    smokie128  It works with Adobe Reader, you don't need Adobe Acrobat. The cool thing is, that you the extension menu automatically pops-up and users can click to "Open in Acrobat" and it will download and open the PDF:

     

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smokie128
Copper Contributor
May 11, 2020
Yes, thank you very much! That works for us.

Would there be any way to enforce "Always open in system viewer" for all users for pdf files, preferably via GPO? To be clear, I mean the option users can select after downloading the file and right-clicking on the downloaded file in the Edge Download Bar.
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narutards
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Jul 08, 2020

smokie128 

That isn't possible right now but will be coming with Edge v85.

 

I've had a case open with MS for a while and like 2 weeks ago they confirmed it. The policy reference has already been updated accordingly too: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#autoopenfiletypes

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