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Setting Edge (Chromium) home page for a group of users with Group Policy preferences

In my organization we use GPP to set a different homepage for a specific group of users using Internet Explorer. By using Item Targeting, we have that group get to that URL for that internal organization on startup of IE and the rest of our users get to our main home page. The GPP is in a USER based Policy GPO. We've now introduced Edge (Chromium) to our organization. I'm not finding a way to do the same thing. We'd like to just add some Group Policy Preferences to our USER GPO in the same way so that this separate group can get to their URL at launch of Chromium Edge. Any ideas?

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you can use GPP-Registry to set the relevant keys/values, and apply ILT to achieve your goal (apply different settings to a user group/s)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#restoreonstartup

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#restoreonstartupurls

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Hi,
It is suggested to deploy the home page by the group policy .(If there are other settings can do the same thing, i would consider the Registry as the second option )

Firstly, we need to install the Edge related policies on your DCs. Following steps for your reference:
Download latest ADMX files from Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download

If you have a central store for the admx files, we need to do the operations just on one DC, and it wil replicated to all other DCs :
Copy the edge admx file to the PolicyDefinition folder. It is under %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions.
Copy the adml file to the matching language folder in the PolicyDefinition folder. %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions\EN-US)

If you don't have a central store, we need to do the following operations on every DC.
Copy the admx file to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US)
Copy the adml file to the matching language folder in the PolicyDefinition folder.It is under C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US).

After that , you can find the group policy under User configuration->Administrative templates -> Microsoft Edge -> Startup , homepage and new tab page

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The problem is that we already have an EDGE GPO in place (using the ADMX files from a Central Store).
We also have an Internet Explorer GPO in place (that does not set the home page for users).

We have a USER GPO to manage settings for users in the domain. In that GPO we already have group Policy preferences in place to direct the subgroup of users to their own home page for Internet Explorer. Via Item-targeting.
Plus a preference for all other users get to our main home page.

What we want to do is create a new policy preference to direct that user group to their home page in Edge. In the same way as we do for them in Internet Explorer by preference, Item-targeting.

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Hi,
There is not such a settings for the home page in Edge.
If you want to apply the policy to specific like the Item-targeting, you can considered the security filter or the WMI filter.
If you use the security filter ,you can do as following :
Remove the" apply group policy "permission from the authenticated users.
Add the specific group you want to apply the policy, give read and apply group policy permission.

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