Windows 10 Kiosk - Only allow specific website list

Torbuck 26 Reputation points
2021-01-06T02:09:03.663+00:00

Greetings

My organization is required to set up a public facing web browser kiosk system where we wish to allow only a certain list of websites. We have tried using InTune's kiosk abilities, however because one of the websites is on a completely different domain, it breaks the kiosk (apparently InTune kiosk only works for accessing one website domain). We wish to be able to do the following:

I am interested in the simplest method to do this. Is there a GPO that is available for such a task? Would it be a Edge GPO or something Windows specific? Any suggestions would be welcomed!

Thanks in advanced

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  1. Gary Blok 1,736 Reputation points
    2021-01-06T05:29:20.517+00:00

    Simple way, you could use a paid product, Recast Kiosk Manager..

    Free way...

    You can probably do this with GPO, but I just tested on one machine to confirm
    Configure a Proxy Service for Internet, I set it to 127.0.0.1
    This broke all websites
    In Advanced, I then added www.microsoft.com; garytown.com. I was then able to get to any pages on microsoft's website, or garytown.com, everything else came back with proxy error.

    You can also then have GPO set your default webpage.

    You can create a scheduled task that runs that would close the browser and reopen it. Test out the trigger "idle", or on workstation lock.

    Good luck.

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  1. Deepak-MSFT 2,191 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-01-06T07:41:27.227+00:00

    @Torbuck ,

    I try to search for any GPO that can help to block certain URLs from the Edge browser side.

    Below are 2 GPOs that may help you achieve the said requirement.

    1. Define a list of allowed URLs
    2. Block access to a list of URLs

    You can try to make a test with these 2 GPOs and let us know whether it helps to solve the issue or not.

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