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RoamingProfileSupportEnabled - referred to in other policies desc but no policies designed to set it
- 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
Hi,
these whole things looks terrible to me and is a complete break of the default behaviour of Microsoft to differ between roaming and local app data.
We have the need to have edge on our terminal servers but do not roam the local part of the profile. So users have always a blank new edge after next login. What the f...
Ok i checked those GPOs and have done the AD sync (we are on-premises only NO cloud at all).
Added "https://docs.microsoft.com/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#configureonpremisesaccountautosignin" to 1 (signinand...), changed https://docs.microsoft.com/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#roamingprofilelocation to ${roaming_app_data}\Microsoft\edge-profile and https://docs.microsoft.com/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#roamingprofilesupportenabled to true but only favorites and settings are synced. Other options are greyed out (such like passwords, history, opentabs and so on). There is block sign "is set from your organization". No its NOT. Looks like some default values that other things are not synced but nothing is further more described in the policy explanations (which i very like also the direct linking in edge://policy).
Using edge 88.0.705.63 with latest admx applied.
If i reset sync its asking me if really want to reset sync and start sync again after reset 🙂 but why is it saying it want to delete it from microsoft server if the sync is AD only. Did i miss something?
tried disable https://docs.microsoft.com/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#synctypeslistdisabled but no change, also when i only disable passwords. Still no change on the other settings.
Has anyone had any luck getting GPO to work? I am running a 4 node term server environment and I have the GPO's set for roaming profile as saxe123 described and if I login with my test user and open Edge and then check the policies applied with edge://polcies, they show as applied and okay, but they simple do not work. I even defaulted the home page with the GPO, it shows as applied, but it just doesn't work. Is this a Microsoft issue? I also am using the consumer version, not the business version, but I assume it doesn't matter when it comes to GPO, its more of controlling the versions? Maybe not? Let me know what you are all having luck with, because right now, GPO's are not working for me...thank you!
- 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.