The names here are not set in stone and are purely for reference. The “Microsoft Edge Addtional Configuration” GPO additional settings that I want to apply to the Edge browser. I have imported the Security Baseline settings to a GPO called “Microsoft Edge Security Baseline Configuration and it has been linked to an OU with just one other GPO. You should now have a GPO with the latest Security Baseline settings. If you prefer a more manual approach, this very basic guide provides the necessary information: If you haven’t been doing a lot of GPO importing, there is a Baseline-ADImport.ps1 script in the Scripts folder, which may help you import the GPO to Active Directory. The folder we need here, is the GPO folder as it contains the actual GPO we want to import to Active Directory. The folder names are self explanatory in regards of contents.

On the site click the download button and select the Microsoft Edge v79-zip file and click next: The article contains a link to the Security Compliance Toolkit where you will find the Security Baseline Settings GPO for Microsoft Edge. A short article by Aaron Margosis at Microsoft telling a bit about the security baseline settings can be found here: To help us achieve that, Microsoft has provided us with some recommended security baseline settings. The internet can be a dangerous place, and thus we need to make sure that one of the primary applications used for accessing the internet is as secure as possible. I am mostly focused on the security side but I will also cover the Microsoft Edge IE Mode feature, which will help you with legacy sites that may only work in Internet Explorer and we’ll also have a look at how to set the default search engine.īefore going any further, please be aware that I assume you have some experience with Group Policy Objects and how they work, also there is information in my previous article you might find useful. In this article I’ll drill down and go through some of the settings and what my recommendations are.

In the article you got at glimpse of my take on how to configure a couple of GPOs with some configuration for the Microsoft Edge browser. Some weeks ago i published an article about how to get started with the new Microsoft Edge browser in Citrix.

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