Prevent Edge Chromium From Opening for Mandatory Roaming Profile Users

Christopher O'Brien 101 Reputation points
2020-12-02T18:23:22.413+00:00

I have some Windows 10 Pro workstations that were recently updated and received the new Edge Chromium browser. These workstations have mandatory roaming profile users configured to automatically login when the computer starts. For some reason, Edge Chromium is launching at startup, and I'm not sure how we can suppress it. I've tried configuring GPO by setting Computer Config > Admin Templates > MS Edge > Allow Edge to pre-launch > Enabled (Prevent) as well as Tab Preloading. None of these settings work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Christopher O'Brien 101 Reputation points
    2021-03-15T17:55:09.497+00:00

    I'll be honest, the only way to kill this behavior is to uninstall Edge and any feature KB updates that ran recently. That's how I got the message to go away. Until MS fixes this behavior, Edge won't be a part of our roll-out.

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  1. S.Sengupta 15,416 Reputation points MVP
    2020-12-03T00:53:29.983+00:00

    Check it here:
    Microsoft Edge - Policies

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  2. Fan Fan 15,291 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-12-03T02:57:02.897+00:00

    Hi,

    Was the error message only for the users with Mandatory Roaming Profiles?
    If for this situation, i would suggest you check if there are MS edge or Chromium apps and settings in the default user profile.
    If there are, remove them from the user profile.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mandatory-user-profile

    Best Regards,

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  3. Christopher O'Brien 101 Reputation points
    2020-12-03T03:10:47.893+00:00

    That link shows how to create a mandatory roaming profile. I know how to do that. That's how we currently have them setup. The problem is that Edge launches at open, and no GPO setting will block it from opening (trust me, I've tried, I've googled all the links you're going to post). I just want to suppress the message, nothing else.

  4. Christopher O'Brien 101 Reputation points
    2020-12-04T14:31:50.19+00:00

    Hi,

    I verified that both values for the registry keys are set to "0". That's what the GPO settings do for that key.