MS Edge Chromium - Disable sign-in dialog on first run

Martin 1

Hi all, we would like to rollout the new Microsoft Edge Chromium. We disabled the first run dialog but the sign-in messages shown in the screenshot appear nevertheless.

It is possible to also disable these dialogs?
Many thanks in advance
Martin

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Leon Laude 85,686 Reputation points

2020-07-29T15:31:37.51+00:00

Hi,

Which version of Microsoft Edge (Chromium) are you using? The Group Policy for hiding the first run requires version 80 or above or it won't work.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hidefirstrunexperience

If it still doesn't work, you can start by verifying that the GPO has been applied successfully, if it has been applied successfully you can verify if the registry entries have been changed and have the same values as mentioned in the Microsoft documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#windows-registry-settings-174

This has also been discussed in many threads, for example this one:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/enterprise/group-policy-to-disable-the-quot-welcome-to-the-new-microsoft/m-p/1067325

Someone in the community created a script for disabling this over here:
https://github.com/gunnarhaslinger/Microsoft-Edge-based-on-Chromium-Scripts

Best regards,
Leon
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Martin 1 Reputation point

2020-07-29T15:44:18.157+00:00

Hi @Leon Laude ,

many thanks for your reply. The Version is 84.0.522.48.

The policy seems to be applied correctly:

I assume that these windows don't belong to the first run wizard. They somehow belong to the profile and the sign-in to Edge.
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Deepak-MSFT 2,191 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-07-30T08:02:51.797+00:00

I want to confirm with you whether you are testing this policy on a local machine or on a active directory?

I found this information which may be helpful to you if you had applied the said policy properly.

If you applied policy settings on the local computer, policies should appear immediately. You may need to close and reopen Microsoft Edge if it was open while you were configuring policy settings.

For Active Directory group policy settings, policy settings are propagated to domain computers at a regular interval defined by your domain administrator, and target computers may not receive policy updates right away. To manually refresh Active Directory group policy settings on a target computer, execute the following command from a command prompt or PowerShell session on the target computer:

gpupdate /force

Reference:

Test your policies

Martin 1 Reputation point

2020-07-30T13:51:32.193+00:00

Hi Deepak,

thanks for your support. Yes, the machines are domain joined and the policies are applied successfully.

Do these sign-in windows belong to the first run wizard or are they independent and is there a different configuration for them?

Many thanks and best wishes
Martin

Deepak-MSFT 2,191 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-07-31T07:26:26.733+00:00

Yes, this looks like it is from the first run wizard.
In that case, I suggest you again try to set the policy and make sure that policy is applied to those machines.
After that try to launch the Edge browser.

Martin 1 Reputation point

2020-08-03T10:57:19.983+00:00

Seems to me that the policy is applied:

Deepak-MSFT 2,191 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-08-04T03:17:47.637+00:00

In my search result, I found that in this kind of situation the policy needs to apply to the Computer container.

I suggest please refer to the steps below may help to fix the issue.

Open local group policy editor.

Navigate to the location below.

Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates: Policy definitions (ADMX files) retrieved from the central store | Microsoft Edge | Proxy server

Enabled the Configure proxy server settings and set its value to Use a .pac proxy script or Use fixed proxy servers.

Enabled the Set the proxy .pac file URL

Set the URL to the Proxy .pac file policy.

Enabled the Configure address of URL or URL of proxy server and set the address of the proxy server.

Link the policy to your Computer Container. After that again tries to test the issue.
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MS Edge Chromium - Disable sign-in dialog on first run

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