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Hello, When we download this particular software, it runs an executable. This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on blocking for potentially unwanted apps with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen.

Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect users from adware, coin miners, bundleware, and other low-reputation apps that are hosted by websites. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned off by default.

If you enable this setting, potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned on. If you disable this setting, potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned off. If you don't configure this setting, users can choose whether to use potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen.

Configures the default home page in Microsoft Edge. You can set the home page to a URL you specify or to the new tab page.

If you enable this policy, the Home button is set to the new tab page as configured by the user or with the policy NewTabPageLocation and the URL set with the policy HomepageLocation is not taken into consideration. If you disable this policy, the Home button is the set URL as configured by the user or as configured in the policy HomepageLocation.

If you don't configure this policy, users can choose whether the set URL or the new tab page is their home page. This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain or Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances enrolled for device management.

The home page is the page opened by the Home button. The pages that open on startup are controlled by the RestoreOnStartup policies.

By default, the Home button will open the new tab page as configured by the user or with the policy NewTabPageLocation , and the user will be able to choose between the URL configured by this policy and the new tab page. If you enable this policy, users can't change their home page URL, but they can choose the behavior for the Home button to open either the set URL or the new tab page. If you disable or don't configure this policy, users can choose their own home page, as long as the HomepageIsNewTabPage policy isn't enabled.

This policy is available only on Windows instances that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, Windows 10 Pro, or Enterprise instances enrolled for device management.

You can configure which types of background image that are allowed on the new tab page layout in Microsoft Edge. This policy didn't work as expected due to changes in operational requirements. Therefore it's obsolete and should not be used. The policy should be configured as a string that expresses the logo s in JSON format. You configure this policy by specifying the URL from which Microsoft Edge can download the logo and its cryptographic hash SHA , which is used to verify the integrity of the download.

The logo is downloaded and cached, and it will be redownloaded whenever the URL or the hash changes. The URL must be accessible without any authentication. We recommend a horizontal logo with a transparent background that is left-aligned and vertically centered. The logo should have a minimum height of 32 pixels and an aspect ratio from to If you enable this policy, Microsoft Edge downloads and shows the specified logo s on the new tab page.

Users can't override or hide the logo s. If you disable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge will show no company logo or a Microsoft logo on the new tab page. If you enable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge displays Microsoft News content on the new tab page. The user can choose different display options for the content, including but not limited to Content off, Content visible on scroll, Headings only, and Content visible. Enabling this policy doesn't force content to be visible - the user can continue to set their own preferred content position.

If you disable this policy, Microsoft Edge does not display Microsoft News content on the new tab page, the Content control in the NTP settings flyout is disabled and set to 'Content off'. This policy only applies for Microsoft Edge local user profiles, profiles signed in using a Microsoft Account, and profiles signed in using Active Directory. To configure the Enterprise new tab page for profiles signed in using Azure Active Directory, use the M admin portal. If you set this policy to false or don't configure it, the default top site tiles remain visible.

The recommended version of this policy does not currently work and functions exactly like the mandatory version. This policy determines the page that's opened when new tabs are created including when new windows are opened. It also affects the startup page if that's set to open to the new tab page. This policy doesn't determine which page opens on startup; that's controlled by the RestoreOnStartup policy. It also doesn't affect the home page if that's set to open to the new tab page.

By default, Microsoft Edge displays quick links on the new tab page from user-added shortcuts and top sites based on browsing history. With this policy, you can configure up to three quick link tiles on the new tab page, expressed as a JSON object:. The 'url' field is required; 'title' and 'pinned' are optional.

If 'title' is not provided, the URL is used as the default title. If 'pinned' is not provided, the default value is false. Microsoft Edge presents these in the order listed, from left to right, with all pinned tiles displayed ahead of non-pinned tiles. If the policy is set as mandatory, the 'pinned' field will be ignored and all tiles will be pinned. The tiles can't be deleted by the user and will always appear at the front of the quick links list.

If the policy is set as recommended, pinned tiles will remain in the list but the user has the ability to edit and delete them. Quick link tiles that aren't pinned behave like default top sites and are pushed off the list if other websites are visited more frequently.

When applying non-pinned links via this policy to an existing browser profile, the links may not appear at all, depending on how they rank compared to the user's browsing history. If you configure this policy, preloading the New tab page is enabled, and users can't change this setting. If you don't configure this policy, preloading is enabled and a user can change this setting. If you enable or don't configure this policy, Microsoft Edge displays quick links on the new tab page, and the user can interact with the control, turning quick links on and off.

Enabling this policy does not force quick links to be visible - the user can continue to turn quick links on and off. If you disable this policy, Microsoft Edge hides quick links on the new tab page and disables the quick links control in the NTP settings flyout.

This policy is obsolete because the new version of the enterprise new tab page no longer requires choosing between different content types. Instead, the content that is presented to the user can be controlled via the Microsoft admin center. When you set this policy to 'News', users will see the Microsoft News feed experience on the new tab page. When you set this policy to 'Office', users with an Azure Active Directory browser sign-in will see the Office feed experience on the new tab page.

Users with an Azure Active Directory browser sign-in are offered the Office new tab page feed experience, as well as the standard new tab page feed experience.

Users without an Azure Active Directory browser sign-in will see the standard new tab page experience. The browsing session will be restored as it was. Note that this option disables some settings that rely on sessions or that perform actions on exit such as Clear browsing data on exit or session-only cookies.

Disabling this setting is equivalent to leaving it not configured. Users will be able to change it in Microsoft Edge. Specify a list of websites to open automatically when the browser starts. If you don't configure this policy, no site is opened on startup. This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on Edge TyposquattingChecker.

Edge TyposquattingChecker provides warning messages to help protect your users from potential typosquatting sites. By default, Edge TyposquattingChecker is turned on. If you don't configure this policy, Edge TyposquattingChecker is turned on but users can choose whether to use Edge TyposquattingChecker. If you enable or don't configure this policy, users have the option of using an anonymous Microsoft service. This service provides automatic descriptions for unlabeled images users encounter on the web when they're using a screen reader.

If you disable this policy, users can't enable the Get Image Descriptions from Microsoft feature. When this feature is enabled, the content of images that need a generated description is sent to Microsoft servers to generate a description.

No cookies or other user data is sent to Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't save or log any image content. Enables the display of relevant Microsoft Search in Bing suggestions in the address bar's suggestion list when the user types a search string in the address bar. If you enable or don't configure this policy, users can see internal results powered by Microsoft Search in Bing in the Microsoft Edge address bar suggestion list.

If you disable this policy, users can't see internal results in the Microsoft Edge address bar suggestion list. Starting with Microsoft Edge version 89, Microsoft Search in Bing suggestions will be available even if Bing isn't the user's default search provider.

Enables deleting browser history and download history and prevents users from changing this setting. Note that even with this policy is disabled, the browsing and download history aren't guaranteed to be retained: users can edit or delete the history database files directly, and the browser itself may remove based on expiration period or archive any or all history items at any time.

If you enable this policy or don't configure it, users can delete the browsing and download history. If you disable this policy, users can't delete browsing and download history.

Disabling this policy will disable history sync and open tab sync. If you enable this policy, don't enable the ClearBrowsingDataOnExit policy, because they both deal with deleting data. If you enable both, the ClearBrowsingDataOnExit policy takes precedence and deletes all data when Microsoft Edge closes, regardless of how this policy is configured. If you disable this policy, whenever the user performs an action that triggers a file selection dialog like importing favorites, uploading files, or saving links , a message is displayed instead, and the user is assumed to have clicked Cancel on the file selection dialog.

When the policy is set to enabled, pages are allowed to show popups while they're being unloaded. When the policy is set to disabled or unset, pages aren't allowed to show popups while they're being unloaded. This policy is deprecated because it's only intended to be a short-term mechanism to give enterprises more time to update their web content if and when it's found to be incompatible with the change to disallow synchronous XHR requests during page dismissal.

This policy lets you specify that a page can send synchronous XHR requests during page dismissal. If you disable this policy or don't configure this policy, pages aren't allowed to send synchronous XHR requests during page dismissal. Configure the list of URL patterns for sites that the browser will attempt to perform the Token Binding protocol with. If the server responds with a valid ServerHello response, the browser will create and send Token Binding messages on subsequent https requests.

If you configure this policy, the list of configured URL patterns is excluded from tracking prevention. If you don't configure this policy, the global default value from the "Block tracking of users' web-browsing activity" policy if set or the user's personal configuration is used for all sites.

If you enable this policy, a web service is used to generate url and search suggestions for network errors. If you disable this policy, no calls to the web service are made and a standard error page is shown.

Specifically, there's a Suggest similar pages when a webpage can't be found toggle, which the user can switch on or off. Note that if you have enable this policy AlternateErrorPagesEnabled , the Suggest similar pages when a webpage can't be found setting is turned on, but the user can't change the setting by using the toggle.

If you disable this policy, the Suggest similar pages when a webpage can't be found setting is turned off, and the user can't change the setting by using the toggle. If you enable this policy Microsoft Edge treats PDF files as downloads and lets users open them with the default application. If you don't configure this policy or disable it, Microsoft Edge will open PDF files unless the user disables it. If you set the policy to 'RegularOnly', it allows ambient authentication for Regular sessions only.

InPrivate and Guest sessions won't be allowed to ambiently authenticate. Guest sessions won't be allowed to ambiently authenticate. If you set the policy to 'GuestAndRegular', it allows ambient authentication for Guest and Regular sessions.

InPrivate sessions won't be allowed to ambiently authenticate. In Microsoft Edge version 81 and later, if the policy is left not set, ambient authentication will be enabled in regular sessions only.

If you set this policy to true, the AppCache is enabled, even when AppCache in Microsoft Edge is not available by default. If you set this policy to false, or don't set it, AppCache will follow Microsoft Edge's defaults. If you enable this policy, Microsoft Edge uses the specified locale.

If the configured locale isn't supported, 'en-US' is used instead. If you disable or don't configure this setting, Microsoft Edge uses either the user-specified preferred locale if configured or the fallback locale 'en-US'. Allows you to set whether a user is prompted to grant a website access to their audio capture device.

If you enable this policy or don't configure it the default setting , the user is prompted for audio capture access except from the URLs in the AudioCaptureAllowedUrls list. These listed URLs are granted access without prompting.

If you disable this policy, the user is not prompted, and audio capture is accessible only to the URLs configured in AudioCaptureAllowedUrls.

Specify websites, based on URL patterns, that can use audio capture devices without asking the user for permission. Patterns in this list are matched against the security origin of the requesting URL.

If they match, the site is automatically granted access to audio capture devices. This policy controls the priority of the audio process on Windows. If this policy is enabled, the audio process will run with above normal priority. If this policy is disabled, the audio process will run with normal priority. If this policy is not configured, the default configuration for the audio process will be used. This policy is intended as a temporary measure to give enterprises the ability to run audio with higher priority to address certain performance issues with audio capture.

This policy will be removed in the future. If you disable this policy, the audio process will run unsandboxed and the WebRTC audio-processing module will run in the renderer process. This leaves users open to security risks related to running the audio subsystem unsandboxed. If you don't configure this policy, the default configuration for the audio sandbox will be used, which might differ based on the platform. This policy is intended to give enterprises flexibility to disable the audio sandbox if they use security software setups that interfere with the sandbox.

If you enable this policy, all supported datatypes and settings from the specified browser will be silently and automatically imported at first run. During the First Run Experience, the import section will also be skipped. The browser data from Microsoft Edge Legacy will always be silently migrated at the first run, irrespective of the value of this policy. If this policy is set to 'FromDefaultBrowser', then the datatypes corresponding to the default browser on the managed device will be imported.

If the browser specified as the value of this policy is not present in the managed device, Microsoft Edge will simply skip the import without any notification to the user. If you set this policy to 'DisabledAutoImport', the import section of the first-run experience is skipped entirely and Microsoft Edge doesn't import browser data and settings automatically.

If this policy is set to the value of 'FromInternetExplorer', the following datatypes will be imported from Internet Explorer:. If this policy is set to the value of 'FromGoogleChrome', the following datatypes will be imported from Google Chrome:. If this policy is set to the value of 'FromSafari', user data is no longer imported into Microsoft Edge. This is due to the way Full Disk Access works on Mac. On macOS Mojave and above, it's no longer possible to have automated and unattended import of Safari data into Microsoft Edge.

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 83, if this policy is set to the value of 'FromMozillaFirefox', the following datatypes will be imported from Mozilla Firefox:. If you want to restrict specific datatypes from getting imported on the managed devices, you can use this policy with other policies such as ImportAutofillFormData , ImportBrowserSettings , ImportFavorites , and etc.

Specifies whether the AutoLaunch Protocols component should be enabled. This component allows Microsoft to provide a list similar to that of the AutoLaunchProtocolsFromOrigins policy, allowing certain external protocols to launch without prompt or blocking certain protocols on specified origins.

By default, this component is enabled. Allows you to set a list of protocols, and for each protocol an associated list of allowed origin patterns, that can launch an external application without prompting the user. The trailing separator should not be included when listing the protocol.

If you configure this policy, a protocol will only be permitted to launch an external application without prompting by policy if:. If you don't configure this policy, no protocols can launch without a prompt.

This policy has no impact on automatically open values set by users via the download shelf If either condition is false, the download won't automatically open by policy. If you don't set this policy, all downloads where the file type is in AutoOpenFileTypes will automatically open. This policy sets a list of file types that should be automatically opened on download.

Note: The leading separator should not be included when listing the file type, so list "txt" instead of ". By default, these file types will be automatically opened on all URLs. Files with types that should be automatically opened will still be subject to the enabled Microsoft Defender SmartScreen checks and won't be opened if they fail those checks. File types that a user has already specified to automatically be opened will continue to do so when downloaded.

The user will continue to be able to specify other file types to be automatically opened. If you don't set this policy, only file types that a user has already specified to automatically be opened will do so when downloaded.

Enables the AutoFill feature and allows users to auto-complete address information in web forms using previously stored information. If you disable this policy, AutoFill never suggests or fills in address information, nor does it save additional address information that the user might submit while browsing the web.

If you enable this policy or don't configure it, users can control AutoFill for addresses in the user interface. Note that if you disable this policy you also stop all activity for all web forms, except payment and password forms.

No further entries are saved, and Microsoft Edge won't suggest or AutoFill any previous entries. Enables Microsoft Edge's AutoFill feature and lets users auto complete credit card information in web forms using previously stored information. If you disable this policy, AutoFill never suggests or fills credit card information, nor will it save additional credit card information that users might submit while browsing the web.

This feature helps protect against man-in-the-middle attacks by enforcing more secure connections, but users might experience more connection errors. Note: The 'UpgradeCapableDomains' configuration requires a component list, and will not upgrade these connections if ComponentUpdatesEnabled is set to 'Disabled'. Connection errors might occur more often. The default setting, "Not configured" respects the current media autoplay settings and lets users configure their autoplay settings.

Setting to "Enabled" sets media autoplay to "Allow". All websites are allowed to autoplay media. Users can't override this policy. Setting to "Disabled" sets media autoplay to "Limit". This limits websites that are allowed to autoplay media to webpages with high media engagement and active WebRTC streams. Prior to Microsoft Edge version 92, this would set media autoplay to "Block".

If you don't configure this policy, the global default value from the AutoplayAllowed policy if set or the user's personal configuration is used for all sites.

Allows Microsoft Edge processes to start at OS sign-in and keep running after the last browser window is closed. In this scenario, background apps and the current browsing session remain active, including any session cookies. An open background process displays an icon in the system tray and can always be closed from there. Lets you enable or disable background updates to the list of available templates for Collections and other features that use templates.

Templates are used to extract rich metadata from a webpage when the page is saved to a collection. If you enable this setting or the setting is unconfigured, the list of available templates will be downloaded in the background from a Microsoft service every 24 hours. If you disable this setting the list of available templates will be downloaded on demand. This type of download might result in small performance penalties for Collections and other features.

If you enable this policy, then a user can search on bing. At the same time, the SafeSearch setting will be set to 'Strict' and can't be changed by the user. If you don't configure this policy, then the default experience will have ads in the search results on bing. SafeSearch will be set to 'Moderate' by default and can be changed by the user.

You were experiencing an ad-free search experience on Microsoft Edge Legacy and want to upgrade to the new version of Microsoft Edge. Block web page elements that aren't from the domain that's in the address bar from setting cookies. If you enable this policy, web page elements that are not from the domain that is in the address bar can't set cookies. If you disable this policy, web page elements from domains other than in the address bar can set cookies. If you don't configure this policy, third-party cookies are enabled but users can change this setting.

Allows users to create new profiles, using the Add profile option. If you enable this policy or don't configure it, Microsoft Edge allows users to use Add profile on the Identity flyout menu or the Settings page to create new profiles. If you disable this policy, users cannot add new profiles from the Identity flyout menu or the Settings page. Enable the option to allow the use of guest profiles in Microsoft Edge.

In a guest profile, the browser doesn't import browsing data from existing profiles, and it deletes browsing data when all guest profiles are closed. If you enable this policy or don't configure it, Microsoft Edge lets users browse in guest profiles. Sets the ProcessExtensionPointDisablePolicy on Microsoft Edge's browser process to block code injection from legacy third party applications.

If you enable or don't configure this policy, the ProcessExtensionPointDisablePolicy is applied to block legacy extension points in the browser process. If you disable this policy, the ProcessExtensionPointDisablePolicy is not applied to block legacy extension points in the browser process. This has a detrimental effect on Microsoft Edge's security and stability as unknown and potentially hostile code can load inside Microsoft Edge's browser process.

Only turn off the policy if there are compatibility issues with third-party software that must run inside Microsoft Edge's browser process. Prevents Microsoft Edge from occasionally sending queries to a browser network time service to retrieve an accurate timestamp. If you disable this policy, Microsoft Edge will stop sending queries to a browser network time service. If you enable this policy or don't configure it, Microsoft Edge will occasionally send queries to a browser network time service.

Specify whether a user can sign into Microsoft Edge with their account and use account-related services like sync and single sign on. To control the availability of sync, use the SyncDisabled policy instead. If you set this policy to 'Disable', make sure that you also set the NonRemovableProfileEnabled policy to disabled because NonRemovableProfileEnabled disables the creation of an automatically signed in browser profile.

If both policies are set, Microsoft Edge will use the 'Disable browser sign-in' policy and behave as if NonRemovableProfileEnabled is set to disabled. If you set this policy to 'Enable', users can sign into the browser. Hi, i have a similar issue: one of the SAP sites is configured as a trusted site. BTW — it happens with all file types, for example.

TIF any ideas? Related Articles. Group Policy Setting of the Week 35 — Display information about previous logons during user logon. Satheesh, Yes it is possible to exclude any particular application from the restriction.

What policy name??? This setting can be found under Configuration… Computer or user config? One of these is the capability to block all downloads. You can use one of the above alternatives to stop any downloads in Chrome. However, you need to have administrative control to implement the above changes.

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