SharePoint Drive Mapping Windows 11- Internet Explorer options locked out

Since this post is where I kept looking for information about this, I wanted to provide an update:

In the past few weeks, Microsoft has started to block SharePoint Online addresses from being opened in Edge's IE mode, which ended our ability to use this workaround (as we could no longer generate that authentication credential.)

Fortunately, Microsoft has also added functionality into Edge and SPO to regain access to the WebDAV interface. It requires a tiny bit of configuration, the instructions for which are here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-view-in-edge

We've rolled it out, and it's been working out great. If your environment prefers to stick with mapped drives, you can set up the new mapping once you use Edge to open any library in Explorer view once. (The authentication is good for the whole TENANT.sharepoint.com site, and not just whatever library you opened initially.)

Hope this helps someone. 🙂