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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 h...
- Feb 11, 2020
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_Keers
May 11, 2020Steel Contributor
Nope. Not a clue. Above was the best of both worlds, roaming info + AAD logon roaming.
MSAlf
May 22, 2020Brass Contributor
Hi and thanks!
Well, but there is need for another tool to accomplish that. As along with Google Chrome … no special tool needed, this isn’t right, we know.
81.0.416.77 – no change.
More thanks, Alar.
- igorm2000Sep 22, 2022Copper ContributorAll right, after i set SignInAndMakeDomainAccountNonRemovable to SignInAndMakeDomainAccountNonRemovable it started working, it's still not working with default profile. Well, at least i found the working scenario
- igorm2000Sep 22, 2022Copper ContributorDo you use on-prem or Azure AD accounts?
I think there is no point for me to use ConfigureOnPremisesAccountAutoSignIn, i have pure on-prem setup, no azure accounts.
Currently i have confirmed that policies work in edge://policy, but directory and pdb file is not created. The same policy in chrome works fine.
Latest Edge and w10 21h2, im not sure where is the problem, if you have it working... - ThiloLangbeinSep 15, 2022Brass Contributor
I can confirm, that on Windows 10 21H2 on a domain joind computer with a domain user logged on and with RoamingProfileLocation and RoamingProfileSupportEnabled there is a profile.pb generated in the configured location. We also have set ConfigureOnPremisesAccountAutoSignIn.
- igorm2000Sep 15, 2022Copper Contributor
I have enabled the setting in latest edge, and it seems to be not working at all.
Folder and profile data is not created in roaming profile, not even with explicitly specifying it using "Set the roaming profile directory" in GPO
- cipo80Oct 05, 2021Copper Contributor
Hi guys, I read all posts, but I'm not sure to have understand correctly.
We've Citrix Xenapp with UPM and Azure AD connect using to sync our AD and O365, in this enviroment the Edge roaming profiles GPOs isn't working?
I tried all yesterday to set GPOs with your suggestions (check the attached screenshots), but the only folder/files in roaming path is a single file "profile.pb", the others folders are in the local path.Thank you for any suggestion
- ThiloLangbeinSep 24, 2021Brass Contributor
Senturion33
RoamingProfileSupport in Microsoft Edge does work, even if Windows Profile of the user is local. - Senturion33Sep 23, 2021Brass Contributor
I know this is a bit old, but I was recently having problems getting RoamingProfileSupportEnabled to actually work. I now have it working, and here's what I discovered:
Prereq:
- Win 10 client must be traditional AD-joined
- Win 10 client can't have the Azure account added (under Work accounts in settings)
- Obviously if you want roaming profile support, you need the user configured to roam the profile as well.
- Extra Credit - define roamingprofile exclusions in group policy (User Config-> System -> User Profiles -> Exclude directories in roaming profile). I exclude ones that have been problematic to me in the past:
- AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams
- AppData\Roaming\Adobe
- AppData\Roaming\Apple
- AppData\Roaming\Webex
- AppData\Roaming\Zoom
- OneDrive
- Pictures
- Music
- Videos
- Downloads
- Dropbox
- Desktop (if using folder redirection)
- Documents (if using folder redirection)
- Contacts (who uses this?)
- 3D Objects (who uses this??)
- Searches (same)
- Saved Games (this is a work PC...)
Policies:
- ConfigureOnPremisesAccountAutoSignIn = 1
- RoamingProfileSupportEnabled = 1
- (Optional) RoamingProfileLocation = $(roaming_app_data)\edge-profile
- (Optional) SyncDisabled = 1 (no sync to cloud)
- saxe123Mar 26, 2021Copper Contributor
the bad: on-prem sync only allows syncing settings and favorites --> check this
On-premises sync for Active Directory (AD) users | Microsoft Docs
quote "With on-premises sync, Microsoft Edge saves an Active Directory user's favorites and settings to a file that can be moved between different computers"
MS has yet no other plans to enable the other sync settings for on-prem customers
the good: MS will check if they will make the reset informations clearer for on-prem sync or even hide it because this reset will not reset anything.
thats it. nothing more nothing less - i guess we have to live with that or change the browser 🙂
- J-DOTMar 11, 2021Copper ContributorGreat news. Anxiously waiting to hear what you find out!
- saxe123Mar 10, 2021Copper Contributor
got a remote session with MS yesterday and they will investigate the restricted possibilites for syncing on prem (only 2 from 8 options are working) and they will also change the message for reset sync which says that the data will be deleted from MS servers, which isnt true for on prem sync.
So lets hope and wait.
- saxe123Mar 08, 2021Copper Contributor
like i said before only favorites and settings are synced and it doesnt care about the other settings even if you set them directly in gpo
edit:
and you cant enable the other settings at all. it says managed by your organization but thats not true (or not my intention) and its not clear where its coming from.
- Tom48Mar 08, 2021Copper ContributorMaybe I should have put it more precise:
Only bookmarks and preferences are synchronized. This is also displayed under edge://settings/profiles/sync - Henno_KeersMar 05, 2021Steel ContributorI agree with you. This was pointed out by me to Edge support.
The current choice goes away with organisations that have a on premise AD and a Azure at the sam time.
We opted to sync to Azure and not locally. - dggggMar 05, 2021Copper ContributorWhen the following setting are configured, the RoamingProfile folder & file are created as described as long as the device that the user is logged onto is NOT AzureAD joined.
Enable using roaming copies for Microsoft Edge profile data
Set the roaming profile directory
Disable synchronization of data using Microsoft sync services
Configure automatic sign in with an Active Directory domain account when there is no Azure AD domain account
It seems that if the device is AzureAD joined, and SSO is enabled then this feature cannot be used. As the setting states...........
Configure automatic sign in with an Active Directory domain account WHEN there is no Azure AD domain account
I need Azure AD join for SSO to teams, office, onedrive etc so that rules out the local roaming profile
You can tell when the feature is working as your profile name will be DOMAIN\User
whereas when Azure Ad joined, the profile is user@domain.com
Would be nice to have to be able to sync locally ONLY even when Azure AD domain joined, or sync locally and to the cloud - new GPO setting please so admins can choose - J-DOTMar 03, 2021Copper ContributorI opened a case with Microsoft. I will report back on what I find out. If anyone else figures anything out, let us know! Thanks!
- Kelly_YMar 03, 2021
Microsoft
Tom48 saxe123 J-DOT Hi! Yes, if you folks are having issues please feel free to reach out to Microsoft Support (https://microsoftedgesupport.microsoft.com/hc/en-us) . They would be able to work with you directly and collect the necessary logs to troubleshoot each individual issue. Thanks!
-Kelly
- Tom48Mar 02, 2021Copper ContributorI have with the following settings the same problem too:
BrowserSignin 2
ConfigureOnPremisesAccountAutoSignIn 1
ForceSync true
RoamingProfileSupportEnabled true
SyncDisabled true
SignInAndMakeDomainAccountNonRemovable true - saxe123Feb 25, 2021Copper Contributor
J-DOT we also set HomepageLocation but only as recommended and that works
check settings "show home button" and verify that "new tab page" is not enabled
my questions were still not answered and i need that to realize a better user experience on the terminal servers. Mozilla has an enterprise mailing list with much better support/maintenance directly from the developers. Mike Kaply 🙂
It could not be that hard to get some answers to such important questions. How to handle those questions? Open support calls?
- J-DOTFeb 24, 2021Copper Contributor
ThiloLangbein I am on prem...also, none of the GPO's I have set for Edge are working...
- ThiloLangbeinFeb 24, 2021Brass Contributor
- J-DOTFeb 24, 2021Copper Contributor
ThiloLangbein also attaching screenshot of edge://policy
- J-DOTFeb 24, 2021Copper Contributor
ThiloLangbein attached. Thank you.
- ThiloLangbeinFeb 24, 2021Brass Contributor
J-DOT A screenshot of edge://sync-internals/ would help.