Help deploying Edge Chromium
I've been working on deploying Edge Chromium at a few sites. While I can easily get the MSI to install I'm running into issues controlling the first run/new user login experience.
I tried with a master_preferences file and looked through the GPO's available but I cannot find how to do the following:
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Disable the first run/onboarding experience/welcome to the new edge
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Disable the creation of a desktop shortcut during the install
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Disable the creation of a desktop shortcut with new user logins to the PC
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Prevent the pinning of the edge icon to the taskbar for new user logins
Here's the master_preferences file I've tested out, doesn't seem to have any effect. Placed in Program Files next to the msedge exe:
{
"distribution": {
"import_bookmarks": false,
"import_history": false,
"import_home_page": false,
"import_search_engine": false,
"do_not_create_desktop_shortcut": true,
"do_not_create_quick_launch_shortcut": true,
"do_not_create_taskbar_shortcut": true,
"system_level": true,
"verbose_logging": true
}
}
Posted Jan 21, 2020, 7:04 AM UTC
Through GPO you can deny login and force the user to a guest account. That should work.
You may have to edit the MSI to change those.