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lexcyn
May 20, 2020Steel Contributor
Redirect Internet Explorer to Edge
So there is a policy for legacy Edge that will send all sites not in the site list into Edge, but I don't see a policy that would apply to the new Edge client. Is this something that could be added? ...
- May 20, 2020
Never mind - I figured it out.
For anyone else looking for a way to do this, you can just modify the IE site mode list to:
-Add your IE home page to Enterprise Site List
-Set Open IN to MSEdge
-Set Allow Redirect to True
Note: this IE list should be the one used by IE to enable redirection. I am using the same listing for both browsers with no issues.
This will force Edge to open without even opening an IE window. Great stuff!
lexcyn
May 20, 2020Steel Contributor
Abigail05 thanks for this - just to clarify, we do have an Enterprise Site list that launches IE mode, as well as an app defaults file that sets Edge to the default browser. What we're looking to do is for anyone that launches IE by accident (or on purpose) to automatically redirect to the new Edge browser. This is for many reasons, but the biggest is security.
I might test the site list in forwarding the home page we have set in IE to automatically launch Edge and see if that accomplishes what we want...
lexcyn
May 20, 2020Steel Contributor
Never mind - I figured it out.
For anyone else looking for a way to do this, you can just modify the IE site mode list to:
-Add your IE home page to Enterprise Site List
-Set Open IN to MSEdge
-Set Allow Redirect to True
Note: this IE list should be the one used by IE to enable redirection. I am using the same listing for both browsers with no issues.
This will force Edge to open without even opening an IE window. Great stuff!