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'Work - Edge' Desktop Shortcut Reappears after deleting and reopening Edge Browser
Hi Everyone - The fix for this was released to Microsoft Edge Beta Version 117.0.2045.12. If you have access to the Beta Channel, please test and let us know if the issue has been resolved.
The fix should also be included in the next Stable release, which should be later this week if there are no delays. Thanks!
-Kelly
MicrosoftRobEhrlich Hello! Sorry to hear the updated build has not fixed your issue. Would you be able to reach out to Support (Support - Microsoft Edge Developer) to troubleshoot further? I've not heard of other cases where the issue is still reproducing and they should be able to gather logs and other diagnostic data to help investigate your specific case. Thanks!
-Kelly
Illustration, I had to turn off the work setting in settings and manually start up pc's one by one, remove hundreds of these everytime a pc started up. 25 times. Our computerclass was not usable. I have 3 other schools where teachers can't work with the kids right now cause of this. It's multiplying extremely fast. I just deleted thousands of these the last couple of hours. It's mental. Kids can't excercise online. Computers just crash.
We also have laptop carts with shared use, I have to email staff again to try to turn this off with kids just learning how to turn on a computer at this point. And everytime they use a different device they have to do it again. I tested it at a computer next to a copier, two different accounts. The setting has to be adjusted for every person that logs in on that device. 
- Thank you so much. I will look into the exclude policy.
I don't know powershell but I might get one from colleagues from other schools maybe.
I'll first try it this way.
Really appreciate your help! - The biggest issue is that you have to clean this up on every pc the user has signed into either by deleting the shortcuts or deleting the users profile. If you miss 1 pc, the shortcuts will just reupload.
You can push a policy through Intune, look for "Exclude specific kinds of files from being uploaded", you can put in filenames that Onedrive will not sync..so can put in something like *Work - Edge*.lnk.
You will still need to clean up the shortcuts on the pcs though, but once the policy is applied, they at least will not sync back up. I made an app thats available to our users that just runs a ps script that deletes these shortcuts from their desktop. You could do something like this, maybe even just run a ps script running as system that goes through all the user profiles deleting these shortcuts.
Hope this helps.
