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Samuele Zaniboni's avatar
Samuele Zaniboni
Copper Contributor
Jul 16, 2017

Suface Hub - Bookmark and home page

Hi All,
we have a surface hub into the office,
and we have a little problem with its utilization.

we have an Office365 account...

We can open Microsoft Edge on the surface Hub and browse the internet.

but..

We would wants to save bookmarks and change the opening page.

we know that Hub is based on sessions and, when it logs out you loose any settings.

Can you try and help us out with this?

thanks

Samuele

10 Replies

  • David Phillips's avatar
    David Phillips
    Steel Contributor
    Jul 19, 2017

    You can use an MDM solution to set your home page(s) and manage those other settings.  I have successfully tested this with Intune and Airwatch.  I don't recall see anything about managing bookmarks, though.  I'm developing a Surface Hub home page that will contain announcments, a FAQ and links to frequently requested bookmarks, like OWA, and department - specific resources including sharepoint sites.

     

      • David Phillips's avatar
        David Phillips
        Steel Contributor
        Mar 08, 2019

        See my earlier post.  Develop and host an anonymous access page, use MDM to point your browser home page to that page.  That should do it for you.

  • Samuele Zaniboni's avatar
    Samuele Zaniboni
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 17, 2017

    Another information...

     

    Understand if the session staying logged in does not work – as it’s based on sessions. However, I would expect the bookmarks feature to work.

    we should be able to login to the Surface Hub (using a OneDrive or Office365 account) and it persist his settings...

     

    I attach a photo....

     

    • Loryan Strant's avatar
      Loryan Strant
      MVP
      Jul 17, 2017
      I see your logic, but that's now how the operating system works as it's a specific version of Windows 10 that doesn't have all the features. So maybe one day in a future update, but that's not how it works now.
  • Loryan Strant's avatar
    Loryan Strant
    MVP
    Jul 16, 2017
    Sorry, I can't think of anything that is possible other than creating a "landing page" you can access with a short URL.
    • Samuele Zaniboni's avatar
      Samuele Zaniboni
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 17, 2017

      thanks... and...

       

      can we set a permanent user profile setup which is logged in- i.e. like a windows account?

       

       

      • Loryan Strant's avatar
        Loryan Strant
        MVP
        Jul 17, 2017
        No, this is against the design principle of the Surface Hub.
        If you want that, then you are better off investing in a PC and a touch screen.