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Bruce_McDonald
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Jun 14, 2020

Do the Group Policy templates actually work for stopping/controlling Microsoft Edge Updates?

Hello   I am current testing MS Edge for Business with the specific goal of controlling the update cadence for the Stable channel. I want complete control on when these updates are applied and ONLY...
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    azeigler
    Jun 17, 2020

    Hi Bruce_McDonald,

     

    Setting the "Update policy override" to "Updates disabled: Updates are never applied" will prevent Edge from being updated on any domain-joined machine. Setting this is sufficient to prevent any updating from happening. When configured, the services / scheduled tasks will not update the browser. They're still scheduled in the case that the policy changes from "off" to "on". 

     

    Thanks,

     

    Andy Zeigler

    Edge Team

     

     

     

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azeigler
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Hi Bruce_McDonald,

 

Setting the "Update policy override" to "Updates disabled: Updates are never applied" will prevent Edge from being updated on any domain-joined machine. Setting this is sufficient to prevent any updating from happening. When configured, the services / scheduled tasks will not update the browser. They're still scheduled in the case that the policy changes from "off" to "on". 

 

Thanks,

 

Andy Zeigler

Edge Team

 

 

 

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Bruce_McDonald
Copper Contributor
Jun 17, 2020

azeigler 

 

Andy

 

Appreciate the update - but does the logic apply to a "non-domain" joined machine? I manage several small business layouts and there are no domains present.

 

And - what does this setting do if a user chooses "About Microsoft Edge" from Help and Feedback under the main menu on the right. This action kicks in the upgrade mechanism and I need to close that vector as well.

 

Please advise.

 

Cheers

 

Bruce

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