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Disable Infobar: Set Microsoft Edge as the default application for reading PDF files
Gunnar-Haslinger Hi! Just wanted to pass along one workaround to remove the infobar. I've heard that other organizations have enable the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally policy (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#alwaysopenpdfexternally).
The team is still discussing an enterprise policy to specifically disable the infobar and will keep you updated about that. Thanks!
-Kelly
MicrosoftGunnar-Haslinger Hi! Just wanted to pass along one workaround to remove the infobar. I've heard that other organizations have enable the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally policy (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#alwaysopenpdfexternally).
The team is still discussing an enterprise policy to specifically disable the infobar and will keep you updated about that. Thanks!
-Kelly
- Kelly_Y
Amarjeet5 Thanks for reaching out! We have not received any update from the PDF team yet but I have passed along your feedback.
-Kelly
- Thanks for the update, a minor detail to provide is that we are using group policy to keep .pdf default to Adobe Reader. This has some business requirements currently however, we want to keep the default behavior of opening the PDF in Edge from a website.
So the actual behavior is fine, the prompt is not needed especially if we are using Group Policy to manage the .PDF extension in this scenario.- Kelly_Y
Gunnar-Haslinger Amarjeet5 esirvys robzlr Hi Everyone! In MS Edge V93 there is a new policy to control the PDF message.
Here is a link to the documentation for the ShowPDFDefaultRecommendationsEnabled policy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#showpdfdefaultrecommendationsenabled
Please take a look. Thanks!
-Kelly