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Richard Sargeant
MCT
Dec 11, 2017

Multiple home pages

Hi all,

 

We have successfully configured Intune so that the customer's Edge browser always shows their corporate home page. Now they want easy access to other pages - something you'd probably normally do with bookmarks.
My idea is to have a second and third home page with the links they want.
Question - has anyone used Intune to define multiple home pages? If yes, can you give me a clue how?

4 Replies

  • Richard-Sargeant's avatar
    Richard-Sargeant
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 13, 2017
    David, Daniel, thanks for your helpful reply. I'm sure I could now configure Intune to give me multiple home pages using your tips. However, I failed to fully understand the customer's request. He actually wants to add tiles to (preferably) the welcome screen or the start screen that have URLs into his intranet. I've looked through all the MDM settings and found nothing that gives me any hope of achieving this. Unless, of course, the community knows otherwise!
    • Daniel Hudson's avatar
      Daniel Hudson
      Iron Contributor
      Dec 13, 2017
      Welcome screen and Start screen are not customisable at this time, so yeah, it's a non-starter if that's what they want!
  • David Phillips's avatar
    David Phillips
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 12, 2017

    We developed a simple Surface Hub home page.  It contains a section for tips, a drop down list of existing Skype enabled rooms and a column for links.  It has an admin back end that allows us to write the tips (along with a graphic, similar to a newspaper article), and modify the list of links.  Every room gets a set of default links, plus links relevant to that location.  So for example, a room in cardiology would see links to their sharepoint, radiology their sharepoint, and so on.

  • Daniel Hudson's avatar
    Daniel Hudson
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 12, 2017

    Hi Richard

    This is possible through SyncML. An example below:

     

    <SyncML xmlns="SYNCML:SYNCML1.2">
    <SyncBody>
    <Replace>
    <CmdID>1</CmdID>
    <Item>
    <Target>
    <LocURI>./Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Browser/Homepages</LocURI>
    </Target>
    <Meta>
    <Format xmlns="syncml:metinf">chr</Format>
    </Meta>
    <Data>"<https://www.website1.com><https://www.website2.com>"</Data>
    </Item>
    </Replace>
    <Final/>
    </SyncBody>
    </SyncML>

     

    You can see more about it here, and full details of the supported CSP's here.

     

    For Intune, you want to create a custom configuration policy. Set the data type as String, the OMA-URI as ./Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Browser/Homepages, and the value as your webpages wrapped in < and > for each webpage.

     

    Note that we don't currently use Intune so I haven't tested the custom configuration policies yet, and we also only apply 1 homepage so I haven't tested the multiple homepages either!

     

    Let me know if you have problems and I can do some testing for you tomorrow or Thursday.

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