Greetings. We've been testing replacing the Managed Browser with Microsoft Edge and Edge is pretty sweet but we've run into one issue. On the Managed Browser, if I click on a link on our Intranet that is a PDF or a Word Doc, etc, the Managed Browser would give me a popup asking if I wanted to open this in Word or whatever MAM managed app it needed. On Edge, on iOS you click a link and it just does nothing. On Android it gives you a popup that says 'This action is blocked by your organization.' I know it's pretty early so I don't know if anybody has seen this or not. There doesn't appear to be any settings in Intune to make this work. I think I will have to open a ticket but at least wanted to throw this out there just in case.

Hi Christopher, How did you try to allow access to your files? via Azure AD App Proxy?At least for now and based on Microsoft Device restriction and Edge Browser, you cannot apply the required policies for Edge on Mobile.For now, you cannot compare the options and features between the Managed Browser and Edge. Eli.

Yes, all my files are on my corporate Intranet that we access via the app proxy. The article you listed talks about Windows 10 Edge policies. We are using the mobile Edge browser on iOS and Android.

Hi Christopher, in my test setup I have an app proxy and an iOS device and added a pdf and docx link to my internal website and opened it with Mobile Edge on an iPhone. As soon as I click on the links (both pdf and docx link) the Mobile Edge is opening it and renders it within the Mobile Edge itself. I got no popup that asks to switch to Word, but I'm able to view the documents within Mobile Edge. best,Oliver

Thanks for the response, Oliver. That is interesting. Our particular files are on SharePoint. I'm using the same conditional access, the same MAM policies and tapping on a PDF in the Managed Browser appears to download the file in the browser and then gives me a few Intune managed apps to open it in. A word file just opens it right in Word. In Edge mobile, in Android, it acts like it's opening a new window and I get the blocked message, while in iOS it does nothing. If I remove my MAM policies, a word document will download then ask if I want to open it in Word or the built in Samsung document reader. At no point will any document render in Edge. It will always want to download to the device. UPDATE: iOS documents seem to render in Edge, on Android they always download and ask what viewer they want to open in.

Interesting my MAM enabled Mobile Edge just opens both files pdf and docx in the browser even when hosted on sharepoint online. But as soon as I try to click on "open with" for pdf it tries to download and fails. For the docx file I click in the online viewer on the upper right, on the pencil icon then I'm asked how to open, in form of a dialog, I choose open with word mobile -> click open -> hand over to word mobile and my docx opens...

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Eli Shlomo
MVP
Oct 07, 2018
Hi Christopher,

How did you try to allow access to your files? via Azure AD App Proxy?
At least for now and based on Microsoft Device restriction and Edge Browser, you cannot apply the required policies for Edge on Mobile.
For now, you cannot compare the options and features between the Managed Browser and Edge.

Eli.
- tk093
  Iron Contributor
  Oct 07, 2018
  Yes, all my files are on my corporate Intranet that we access via the app proxy. The article you listed talks about Windows 10 Edge policies. We are using the mobile Edge browser on iOS and Android.
  - Oliver Kieselbach
    MVP
    Oct 08, 2018
    Hi Christopher,
    
    in my test setup I have an app proxy and an iOS device and added a pdf and docx link to my internal website and opened it with Mobile Edge on an iPhone. As soon as I click on the links (both pdf and docx link) the Mobile Edge is opening it and renders it within the Mobile Edge itself. I got no popup that asks to switch to Word, but I'm able to view the documents within Mobile Edge.
    
    best,
    Oliver
henkorman
Copper Contributor
May 20, 2019
tk093
Hi
did you find any solution for this issue?
the problem that i see is that the application (Edge) does not have access to the internal storage.
when you go into the app settings on the device, and to the permissions, it's all greyed out.
we currently have Samsung s10 with android 9.
when i tested the same thing on samsung s7 with android 8 those settings was enabled and not greyed out and its working.
what to do?!
MisterD3k
Copper Contributor
Dec 17, 2020
tk093 were you able to find a solution to this problem? Our organization is beginning to experience this, as well! 😞

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