Setting up HOME page for Edge and Chrome

[sumo83]

Hi 

I'm struggling to get the HOME page / button to work properly.... Been checking few guides about how to implement this via Intune but doesn't work properly...

The best I could achieve is that I've created a Configuration Profile with "Administrative Template" and configured as below:

• Action to take on startup
  
  • Enabled -> Open a list of URLs
• Configure the home page URL
  
  • Enabled ->  used the url I want to open
• Show Home button on toolbar

  • Enabled

• Sites to open when the browser starts

  • Enabled -> used the same URL as above in "configure home page url"

Now, I'm testing this for EDGE these days... and it works like this:

• when I open EDGE 1st time, it loads the configured page.... great!!!
• when I open a new tab... or open another EDGE window, it opens with some default "news, etc" - thats ok and I'm fine with that
• when I click "HOME" button, it opens again just the "news" as above... This I need to fix but not sure what I'm doing wrong here

FYI:I've tried also configuring this via "Setting Catalog" but it works even worse than the above :\

[#2]

@sumo83 hi please refer to the below screenshot setting up for example google.com as your home page 

Google chrome: 

Edge 

[#3]

Maybe the following links can help -
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2020/11/intune-microsoft-edge-browser-settings.html
https://rahuljindalmyit.blogspot.com/2022/03/using-google-chrome-built-in-admx.html

[#4]

I have very similar setting for Endge (except the 2 about "New Page"). I've added those two and will test. I have assigned that policy to a users group.... Would that work? Or do I need to create an "device group". I've tried to configure the same also for "Users" -e.g. Home page URL (User)- yesterday but didt work either....

[#5]

you can target group of users or devices both will work . if case you have users that use multiple devices you apply it to users and in case users use single devices you can apply it then to devices

[#6]

ok... so I can target to "all users" for example even if I selected "device" setting in subcategories... Was not sure if that could be an issue... but looks it should not... Thanks for expalnation!

[#7]

just wondering.... why you dont use "Settings catalog" also for Chrome?

[#8]

Since Edge is a Microsoft product and those are the recommended setting to control home page through Edge. settings catalogue is available as well but since you have a template for Edge in intune why to use custom settings ?