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Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode Greyed Out
Shilpa_SubramanianThis answer is not good at all. And I feel that that can not be the right answer.
Why would Microsoft be trying to stop corporate computers from being able to use those functions.
Microsoft, please please please remove the blocks that is stopping corporate computers from using the Internet Explorer compatibility settings in Edge. Your answer makes no sense that Microsoft would be doing this.
Can you please provide more info on what is happening here?
Mike_Bound Shilpa_Subramanian I agree, I have spot checked several people, managed or unmanaged devices, some are greyed out, some are not.
- Shilpa_Subramanian
Microsoft
Springer84 For managed devices, the setting should be greyed out. For unmanaged devices, the setting should be actionable. If you are seeing the opposite behavior, please let us know and we can investigate what is happening.
Can you please point me at the documentation from Microsoft that talks about why the "Internet Explorer compatibility" settings are greyed out and not available for managed devices?
It is baffling to understand why Microsoft would intentionally stop IE compatibility for Edge to managed devices, but allow for un-managed devices. There has got to be more to this?
Corporate environment is where IE compatibility will be needed the most.
To summarize:
- I use for the test .admx files from 2020-09-09 (stable version)
- I use on the client computer the Edge version 87.0.637.0
In GPO:
I have activated the 2 policies necessary to activate IE mode for certain industrial sites of our company:
- Configure Internet Explorer intégration
- Configure the Enterprise Mode Site List
Below the test Site List:
<site-list version="3">
<created-by>
<tool>EMIESiteListManager</tool>
<version>12.0.0.0</version>
<date-created>09/18/2020 15:15:48</date-created>
</created-by>
<site url="https://www.xxx.yyy/zzz">
<compat-mode>IE11</compat-mode>
<open-in app="true" allow-redirect="false">MSEdge</open-in>
</site>
</site-list>
The problem still persists, Edge does not open the defined site from the list (https://www.xxx.yyy/zzz) in IE mode... However in this Edge version I can force the opening in IE mode from "more tools".
But that doesn't interest me, I do not want to impose a procedure on our users, I want it to be done automatically. Logical...
Will this issue be solved?As weird as it may sounds, but you have to chose "IE11" instead of "MSEdge" for the <open-in> tag in your sitelist.xml to get it to work with Edge IE Mode Integration.
See documentation (under no. 5): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie11-deploy-guide/add-single-sites-to-enterprise-mode-site-list-using-the-version-2-enterprise-mode-tool
Also select "IE8Enterprise" for <compat-mode>, this did the trick for us on some pages not loading correctly.
So your Site List should look like this
...
<compat-mode>IE8Enterprise</compat-mode>
<open-in app="true" allow-redirect="false">IE11</open-in>...
Hope this helps, works on our clients flawlessly since months.
