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stesch79
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Aug 30, 2019

Refresh Enterprise Mode Site List

If there is a new version of the Enterprise Mode Site List (XML) available, how is the update process in Edge C to that? In MSIE we had to wait 65 seconds after start of MSIE and in Edge there is an ...
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jeffj
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Jan 30, 2020

Wouldn't it make sense to have it try to get a file right away when there is nothing in cache?  The EntMode not kicking in right away is an issue on terminal servers where the profile doesn't roam and main sites accessed need to be told IE. Thanks! Shilpa_Subramanian 

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Shilpa_Subramanian
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Jan 30, 2020

jeffj I'm sorry I did not circle back. If you go to edge://compat/enterprise, there is now a Force Update button that will refresh XML changes instantly. Hope that helps!

 

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    jeffj
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 03, 2020

    Shilpa_Subramanian Moving EntMode to Roaming Profile also would address this at least for our Terminal server Farm. It is the 65 seconds every day that is the issue.  Thanks, Jeff

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    jeffj
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 30, 2020

    Thanks. It is kind of making that part of the logon process for 3000 people that gets tricky.  Any chance there is a command line version of that we could work into a Logon script? Thanks again, Jeff Shilpa_Subramanian 

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      Chris-at-work
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 13, 2020
      Did anyone ever provide command line syntax to force and update ?
      I am getting this issue with Chromium Edge, where I can see the client fetch the sitelist.xml but appears to do nothing about reading it for a long time then Bingo!, it suddenly opens in IE mode, after closeing & reopening many times.
      Not a great experience after we announce the latest and greatest browser.
      • TomGriffith3's avatar
        TomGriffith3
        Brass Contributor
        Mar 24, 2021

        I have to ask this as well. I'm trying to figure out how to consistently force an update, clear a cache, synch everybody, whatever for all the users upon a site List update. And how does update number in the Site List xml play into this? I'm concerned about different Site List version numbers floating about in registries across the enterprise. Here is a synopsis of my testing...


        1. Add http://www.google.com via Enterprise Site Mgr v2.. That puts +1 on the version number in the Site List XML and appears to eventually load http://www.google.com in IE mode. (version number=4)


        2. Manually add http://www.msn.com to the Site List XML in notepad, not changing
        version number and nothing ever happens. The new site, http://www.msn.com, is never loaded in IE mode. I let that sit overnight, same thing in the morning, no joy for http://www.msn.com in IE mode. (version number=4)


        3. I decremented (-1) on the version number in Site List xml, http://www.msn.com
        seems to load in IE mode after some delay. Still not sure about
        that 65 second thing. (version number=3)


        4. I put version number back +1 in notepad, added http://www.yahoo.com to the Site List, and http://www.yahoo.com eventually and random;y loads (Bingo!) loads in IE mode. (version number=4)

        5. I decremented (-1) version number with http://www.yahoo.com and it eventually loads http://www.yahoo.com in IE mode. (version number=3)

         

         

        In edge://compat/enterprise....hitting the Force update button does not care about version number and everything works automatically. So I'm just trying to get a feel for how the update and synchronizing is supposed to happen in the background. It's just seems so inconsistent.

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