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Group policy to disable the "Welcome to the new Microsoft Edge" dialog from FirstRun wizard
Any chance you could provide a group policy to hide the FirstRun Get Started dialog? In a managed environment it's largely redundant, or at least will be. Also more often then not these changes are c...
rishavsharan
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi everyone
I am a PM in the Edge team and I am happy to say that we are currently working on this very policy. While I can't give a hard timeline, we should be good to release it in the next couple of months.
I am a PM in the Edge team and I am happy to say that we are currently working on this very policy. While I can't give a hard timeline, we should be good to release it in the next couple of months.
rishavsharan That is good news, thanks. Whilst looking at GPOs, could you take a look at this issue please? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/enterprise/new-tab-logo-gpo/m-p/1087949#M724
- rishavsharanLBXComputers, Thanks. I have taken a bug on this and notified the appropriate team.
- How are we looking for this with the recent release of the stable version of Edge?
According to the docs the policy is slated for a realease in version 80, stable is version 79 so we probably have to wait for the first update:
Hide the First-run experience and splash screen
Supported Versions: Microsoft Edge on Windows and Mac since version 80 or later
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hidefirstrunexperience
- rishavsharan
Nice sleuthing. 😄
The current plan is to push it out in E80 stable. We are on track so far.You should be able to test it right now in Beta/Dev and Canary channels
