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mike_robertson
Jan 21, 2020Brass Contributor
RoamingProfileSupportEnabled - referred to in other policies desc but no policies designed to set it
Hi,
I am preparing the deployment of Microsoft Edge (Chromium), I've downloaded the MSI and GPO templates and have started going through them. I've set everything I pretty much need to but have hit a hiccup which I'm hoping for some clarity on.
I wish for all AppData to save to the Roaming profile instead of Local profile for my users. This is doable on Google Chrome by setting the policy named "Enable the creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data" to "Enabled" which then sets the "RoamingProfileSupportEnabled" registry entry to "1". There does not appear to be a policy which sets this functionality for Edge but in the policy named "Disable synchronization of data using Microsoft sync services" it states in the description "Do not enable this policy when the policy 'RoamingProfileSupportEnabled' is enabled." - this proves that the functionality is there in some sense or will eventually be there. I tried to manually enter this registry key in HKCU>Software>Policies>Microsoft>Edge and when you launch Edge it does not load up the application unfortunately but it does create the folder "Edge" and "User Data" inside the Roaming AppData folders. So potentially Edge is just crashing because of this key. If I remove the registry key or set it to "0" then Edge works again but the data is still stored to Local AppData.
Is functionality supposed to be enabled in v79 or v80 (beta)? Or is this something for future development? This is the only thing causing me to not roll this out for our users currently.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Hi,
It appears that Microsoft have released some new GPO templates - i'm not sure on a version or a date they were available but as of today 11th February 2020 they have resolved this issue.
There is a new policy called "Set the user data directory" and I've set the value to ${roaming_app_data} and this resolved my issue.
In the policy is a link to a page of descriptions of options for this value and instructions on what to do.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/edge-learnmore-create-user-directory-vars
Hope this helps everyone!
Thanks,
Mike
- MSAlfBrass Contributor
Hi!
Edge Chromium 80.0.361.109 and still same issue as described in initial post. Any solution on the way? I mean, a solution as it is for Google Chrome.
Terv, Alar. - mike_robertsonBrass Contributor
Hi,
It appears that Microsoft have released some new GPO templates - i'm not sure on a version or a date they were available but as of today 11th February 2020 they have resolved this issue.
There is a new policy called "Set the user data directory" and I've set the value to ${roaming_app_data} and this resolved my issue.
In the policy is a link to a page of descriptions of options for this value and instructions on what to do.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/edge-learnmore-create-user-directory-vars
Hope this helps everyone!
Thanks,
Mike
- Henno_KeersSteel Contributor
mike_robertson I would refer to this as a "workaround" since it moves several hundreds megabytes to the AppData\Roaming side of the Windows profile.
Hardly acceptable...
Chromes setting moves only a small portion.
- mike_robertsonBrass Contributor
Henno_Keers It wasn't that much in my testing.. however my testing was minimal. I've not rolled Edge out to users yet and don't plan to until we've rolled out Windows 10, which is fairly imminent. (Yes I know we are late to the party.) So hopefully until then, Microsoft can limit the things that need to move in future releases. All that I wanted is that everything in Edge is locked down in case any of my users decide to use it. I don't plan on making it obvious to them. I'd rather them stick with IE11 or Chrome. And having their favourites and browser settings move with them if they move PC is one of the requirements I wanted to fulfil which it now does with this option being available. I could use AppLocker to block Edge so no one can use it, but I'd rather not go down that route.
- ccmtkelly01Copper Contributor
Were you able to find a solution?
I have a similar situation where i want to offload new Edge data such as settings and Favorites set by users.
- mike_robertsonBrass Contributor
ccmtkelly01 - I've not actually looked very much more since I made the post. What I was going to do (unless someone told me that they had worked it out) was wait for v80 to release publically to fix a few other little things I've noticed haven't worked and then I was going to import the latest GPO templates in case there were any changes or new policies and try it again and update this post. Although I'm not desperate to get this pushed out for users, apparently the new Chromium Edge will replace Microsoft Edge in Windows Update automatically at some point, I'm not sure when but I'd like everything to be in place before that.