Forum Discussion
Sync new Edge favorites with IE
We need a favorites sync with legacy IE, like old Edge did (https://www.windowscentral.com/how-keep-favorites-synced-between-microsoft-edge-and-ie-windows-10#sync_favorites_ie_edge_gpedit) !
If this wil not come, we need to put the bookmarks (afvorites) to a network share (homdrive).
- We need at least to put the bookmarks / favorites to a network share. It's impossible to use the browser without this feature. Users are used to this feature.
Indeed as an Enterprise Version we would need the settings back (Keep Your Favorites Sync between IE and Edge) ,further more to publish Favorites in new edge through Group Policy was a mission for me but some how manage to that Naz9mm
ImranMuhammad350 What did you use to Publish Favs in to New Edge via GPO?
- I suppose we should support this Uservoice request:
https://microsoftedge.uservoice.com/forums/928825-enterprise/suggestions/40312513-sync-bookmarks-favorites-on-prem-without-cloudbin_da Done!
- Done too!
- Also done.
Any update on this? With January 15th, just around the corner, this is a big feature still needing implemented in the new Edge browser.
I agree with ThiloLangbein and Senturion33 in that we use and see immense benefit of redirected Favorites folders that can be managed and accessed outside the browser in a very easy fashion. Edge (old) had the ability to turn this sync on and we LOVED it. A forced move to Edge (Chromium) without this feature will be a huge loss of functionality. Ability to sync to AAD profile is wonderful, but still takes away some of the functionality we are used to in our deployments in our school districts.
As FYI, the enabling of this (old) Edge <> IE Favorites sync behavior is documented in the following two MS locations: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/askie/2017/01/12/managing-favorites-for-edge-and-internet-explorer-in-windows-10-preview/ and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/available-policies#keep-favorites-in-sync-between-internet-explorer-and-microsoft-edge
I would think this (additional Favorites folder) sync feature needs developed before pushing to enterprise customers (which includes schools).
Thanks!
Jared
Jared Pickerell
County Network Admin/Tech Coordinator
Doniphan County Education Coop 616
We too would like Edge Chromium to sync back to the user profile Favourites folder like Edge Legacy does.
- V-FRROME
Microsoft
I can see something like this getting setup with IE Mode integration possibly.
We are still in the preview states of IE Mode integration with Edge Dev Enterprise, but you have to edit the registry to setup that up anyways this might be something you could possibly do at the same time in the future.
Thanks for the feature request,
Frank
It would be pretty cool if this favorites sync can utilize the same favorites folder that already exists in user profiles. I know many organizations today use that folder, and Group Policy favorites for IE uses it. If there can be a way that those favorites can "automagically" appear in favorites for Edge I know that would solve lots of enterprise-related questions.
I am already familiar with the favorites management in Chrome and the new Edge, but it would be great if the enterprise favorites policies that all organizations have already set up and just work with the new Edge with a group policy or registry tweak. It would be super nice and elegant.
- I‘m afraid Microsoft will not help us in this case. We check, if we can use a extension for this.
Please, fix the basic sync first. It's been so long broken and your focus shouldn't be to add new features until the basic one are completely fixed. 😞
I've tried clearing cache, deleting Edge's %APPDATA%, uninstall/reinstall Edge.
I've even tried Canary build and yet,the setting is greyed out everywhere.
Steve RughV-FRROME I wanted to clarify that IE mode does not handle this scenario. Currently migration of this content from IE11 -> Microsoft Edge exists, but continuous syncing between IE11 and Microsoft Edge does not.
Thilo Langbein Can you describe the use case that you have where you would want to be able to continuously sync this info? If you were to do the migration of this upfront, and then leverage IE mode in Microsoft Edge going forward (instead the IE11 app) would that be sufficient?
Wie use https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/askie/2017/01/12/managing-favorites-for-edge-and-internet-explorer-in-windows-10-preview/ to (permanently) sync favorites between (old) Edge und IE. The favorites are redirected (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/dn789199(v%3Dws.11)) to a network share.
This would be a big advantage over Google's Chrome.
You may import Favorites and other data from the Internet Explorer to the Microsoft Edge using edge://settings/importData but you won't be able to Sync. This is expected behavior and you should take a note that Microsoft Edge is the replacement for Internet Explorer and it is expected for user to use it as their default browser and in some special cases, you might switch to Internet Explorer and in this case, there is no need to have ability to Sync favorites.
