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Ivooo
Copper Contributor
Dec 07, 2020

Edge Chromium default search engine using Microsoft Edge - Policies

Hi everyone,

 

I have been creating lots of Edge Chromium policies using:
Microsoft Edge Browser Policy Documentation | Microsoft Docs

 

I managed to configure everything to the required settings except for the default search engine within the browser, which seems to be overly coplex as I simple wish to use Google instead of Bing:
Default search provider

 

I have tried setting it up multiple ways including the settings bellow (Local_Machine, Local_Machine\Recommended, Current_User, and Current_User\Recommended):
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
"DefaultSearchProviderEnabled"=dword:00000001
"DefaultSearchProviderName"="Google"
"DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL"="{google:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}ie={inputEncoding}"
"DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL"="{google:baseURL}complete/search?output=chrome&q={searchTerms}"
"DefaultSearchProviderImageURL"="{google:baseURL}searchbyimage/upload"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended]
"DefaultSearchProviderEnabled"=dword:00000001
"DefaultSearchProviderName"="Google"
"DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL"="{google:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}ie={inputEncoding}"
"DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL"="{google:baseURL}complete/search?output=chrome&q={searchTerms}"
"DefaultSearchProviderImageURL"="{google:baseURL}searchbyimage/upload"

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]

"DefaultSearchProviderEnabled"=dword:00000001
"DefaultSearchProviderName"="Google"
"DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL"="{google:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}ie={inputEncoding}"
"DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL"="{google:baseURL}complete/search?output=chrome&q={searchTerms}"
"DefaultSearchProviderImageURL"="{google:baseURL}searchbyimage/upload"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended]
"DefaultSearchProviderEnabled"=dword:00000001
"DefaultSearchProviderName"="Google"
"DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL"="{google:baseURL}search?q={searchTerms}&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}ie={inputEncoding}"
"DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL"="{google:baseURL}complete/search?output=chrome&q={searchTerms}"
"DefaultSearchProviderImageURL"="{google:baseURL}searchbyimage/upload"

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All my other policy's seem to be working just fine except for these which not only don't work as expected but they seem to change absolutely nothing at all (all my policy's are set using the registry). If anyone has experienced the same or knows a solution or could tell me my error that would be much appreciated.

 

  • Ivooo  ‘This policy is blocked - its value will be ignored.’ means, that Edge has not recognised your device as AD-Joined or MDM-Managed.

     

    I'm not familiar with "Azure AD-Joined" devices, but as I understand this technology no GPO's are deployed or assigned onto "Azure AD-Joined" devices, so you would have to use MDM to configure their Policies.

     

  • Ivooo Are you aware of this limitation in the Microsoft Edge Policies:

     This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances that enrolled for device management

     

    Are your machines MDM-joined or AD-Managed?

    • Ivooo's avatar
      Ivooo
      Copper Contributor

      Hi Gunnar-Haslinger ,

      Thanks for your quick replay, I forgot to mention this but the machines I am testing on are indeed Domain joined and are using Windows 10 Enterprise. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. 

       

      Kind regards,

      Ivooo

      • Gunnar-Haslinger's avatar
        Gunnar-Haslinger
        Steel Contributor

        Ivooo Please provide more Information, for example the output of "edge://policy" (Screenshot or at least the relevant Error-Text).

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