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IE to Edge 87+ redirection issues
Microsoftdb1080 Thanks for the additional information! I've reached out to our team and we will follow up with updates or additional questions.
-Kelly
Microsoftdb1080 Thanks for reaching out.
For the RedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerPreventBHOInstall policy, you're right that computer config is the only one that is affected. We'll make sure to clarify that through documentation. If set to Enable, this policy will uninstall the BHO the next time you update Edge Stable.
To ensure I understand the issue with the second policy, can you please confirm that the policy does not disable redirection after being set as shown below?
Correct, that is how we have it set. I found that the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Edge\IEToEdge | RedirectionMode key, which the BHO itself uses, is not being created by Edge when the
RedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerRedirectMode policy is set BEFORE Edge 87 is installed.
If I manually create the RedirectionMode key and then re-launch Edge, it correctly reads the policy and sets RedirectionMode to 0.
So, if the RedirectionMode key doesn't exist AND the policy is set to disabled, Edge won't create it. The BHO defaults to redirecting sites from IE and ignores the policy. We're getting around the issue by creating that missing registry key.
- Shilpa_Subramanian
db1080 If setting a policy to disable BEFORE installing 87, all you need to do is set RedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerPreventBHOInstall to Enabled. In this case, the BHO will not get installed with the Edge update and redirection shouldn't occur. Are you able to try if this helps?
We will take a look at the RedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerRedirectMode policy and get back on what's going on.
Thanks. We did that, but it was in HKCU so it didn't work. We're moving the BHO policy to HKLM now so it should be resolved soon.
