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Jeff Poblocki
Copper Contributor
Feb 14, 2020

Users not allowed to change Recommenced Policy

I set the NewTabPageLocation as a recommended setting using the following registry key:   SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended   When the users try to go in to change the New Tab Page, th...
Jeff Poblocki's avatar
Jeff Poblocki
Copper Contributor
Feb 19, 2020

Pinging in on this. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Is there another place I should post this for the Edge team to see?

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AndrewSAIF
Iron Contributor
Apr 21, 2020

Jeff Poblocki 

 

I also have this issue in all versions I've tested, using recommended reg keys and recommended group policy. I submitted feedback through the browser itself, but have not gotten a response. I'm glad I saw this thread because I was thinking about posting this myself. 

 

I've tried setting all of the other policies related to home page and new tab page to Recommended as well in case there is a dependency that is not documented, but this didn't change anything. 

 

Andrew

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    AndrewSAIF
    Iron Contributor
    May 18, 2020

    Is this on the team's radar? I have not received a response to the feedback I submitted and there is no official response here. I tested this again today in Canary Version 84.0.516.0 and the behavior is the same. 

     

    Andrew

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      AndrewSAIF
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 28, 2020

      Jeff Poblocki 

      I think I figured out what the deal with this policy is. I had been using it to set the new tab URL to our intranet home page, for context. 

       

      My expected behavior would be that I set this URL as a recommended policy, which would then allow the user to change the URL or set it to the default Edge new tab page. 

       

      However, once I unset this policy, I noticed that clicking the 'Customize' button Under Settings>New tab page takes you to the actual new tab page with the customization popup open. There is no option here in the UI to specify a custom URL. 

       

      I think this means that the only way to specify a custom new tab URL is using this group policy. So when you set it, the customize button grays out because there is no corresponding UI option the user has access to. This makes it act like a mandatory policy. 

       

      Usually when you change recommended policies it does not affect users' current settings, but I noticed when I turned this policy off it does change the current setting for the user back to the default new tab page. Again, as though it were a mandatory policy. 

       

      I wish I would have understood this a few months ago. I would have just left the new tab page alone and pin the intranet home page to the quick launch. As it is, I now have to decide whether to disrupt all of my users by changing the page, or just ignore the folks who are complaining that they can't change it. 

      Deleted Any chance the team could take a look at this policy behavior, or at least double down on it and change the documentation to say that it is only available as Mandatory? Thanks!

       

      Andrew

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