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Search Engine GPO
I am looking to implement Edge for a customer early in 2020, and things so far look fantastic. One missing piece is the ability to mimic their current Search Engine policy, which is basically google ...
The "ManagedSearchEngines" GPO is of little use anyway. While it will actually add the configured search engines to your Edge, the "is_default" attribute is completely ignored (under certain, unknown circumstances).
I was able to get it to work some of the time ... but at least after resetting Edge back to defaults it switched back to Bing as the default search engine, not what I have configured in the GPO.
[ { "is_default": true, "search_url": "https://www.google.de/search?q={searchTerms}", "name": "Google", "keyword": "Google" }, { "is_default": false, "search_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}", "name": "DuckDuckGo", "keyword": "DuckDuckGo" } ]