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Feature request: gpo to hide settings page "edge://settings/devices"
- Feb 25, 2021
htcfreek Todd Miller RaymondT2004 FloHB abadiya Thanks everyone for your patience!
We just had a recent update and starting with version 90.0.796.0+ the page/section in Settings will be completely hidden when either SignIn or Sync are set to disabled via Group Policy. The section won't show up in the navigation page in settings and the URL to get to this page will also not work (the user will just be redirected to the root of the Settings experience). Hopefully this will help address some of the concerns!
-Kelly
@We are just getting ready to deploy Edge and discovered this problem. Like you we have a large number of Kiosk type computers - with a shared Windows profile. Despite having "Browser sign-in settings" set to disabled, this portion of the Settings allows the user to attempt to sign in to an Azure account. The sign-in ultimately fails, but by the time it fails it has already added the Azure "work or school" account to the Windows profile. We have a GPO policy in place (Security/Accounts: Block Microsoft accounts - Users Can't add or log on with Microsoft accounts) that prevents users from adding Microsoft accounts in Window's Settings interface. The feature added to Edge Settings/Devices circuvents both of these policies. It not only lets the users attempt to sign-in to Edge despite sign-in settings being disabled, it allows a user to associate a Microsoft account with the Windows user despite a policy explicitly blocking that.
- Kelly_YFeb 25, 2021Microsoft
htcfreek Todd Miller RaymondT2004 FloHB abadiya Thanks everyone for your patience!
We just had a recent update and starting with version 90.0.796.0+ the page/section in Settings will be completely hidden when either SignIn or Sync are set to disabled via Group Policy. The section won't show up in the navigation page in settings and the URL to get to this page will also not work (the user will just be redirected to the root of the Settings experience). Hopefully this will help address some of the concerns!
-Kelly
- mahahavaMar 12, 2021Copper ContributorHi
Found this page as im also searching for a solution to this, the user in our environment can not configure any syncronization this is disabled, but i would like to be able to hide this page as it is not providing a good experinece showing users settings / guides on things they are not allowed to configure / activate
As i understand the solution for 90 that wont work in our environment as we use a local sign in and sync using UE-V between users computers so we do force a sign-in