Group policy to import favorites from IE to Edge

Question

Can anyone direct me how to create a group policy in Group Policy management to import favorites from IE to Edge browser? This policy will then be applied to a all the machines in an OU via active directory.

Any direction is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

@RT04 ,

1. If you had not downloaded and installed the Edge Group Policy template before then I suggest you refer to this document and follow the steps to install it. If you had already done this then you can skip this step.
2. Further, try to search for Allow importing of favorites policy and enabled it.

Group Policy (ADMX) info:

• GP unique name: ImportFavorites
• GP name: Allow importing of favorites
• GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/
• GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

This policy allows users to import favorites from another browser into Microsoft Edge.

If you enable this policy, the Favorites check box is automatically selected in the Import browser data dialog box.

Note: This policy currently manages importing from Internet Explorer (on Windows 7, 8, and 10), Google Chrome (on Windows 7, 8, and 10 and on macOS), Mozilla Firefox (on Windows 7, 8, and 10 and on macOS), and Apple Safari (on macOS) browsers.

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Answer 2

Yes, The template was already installed by a coworker, so I applied the "Automatically import another browser's data and settings at first run" which did not work. So, I tried another one which is "Allowing importing of favorites" and that did not work either.

Answer 3

Yes, the policy gets applied.

Answer 4

If anyone else is tracking this thread, verified this was a known issue with MS support. This is fixed on MS Edge latest builds 100.0.1185.29 and newer.