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Group Policy "Default Settings" are not applying on First Launch New Users
We have added the following Default Settings via GPO. Users can Change Home Page Set new Tab Page to Home Page Show Home Button Pages to open on Startup. Edge Version 83.0.478.45 The ONLY GPO t...
lforbes
So it turns out that the Recommend Settings do NOT apply if you have the First Run experience enabled. It just plows right over it. You have to set the new GPO setting. I just added the registry key here for people.
Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key path SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
Value name HideFirstRunExperience
Value type REG_DWORD
Value data 0x1 (1)
We also had to add this to stop the auto sign in for the settings to stick.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
"ConfigureOnPremisesAccountAutoSignIn"=dword:00000000
