Recommended policies provide a default setting that the user can override.

Mandatory policies override user preferences and prevent the user from the policy. Microsoft Edge supports mandatory and recommended policies. This approach lets you apply policy settings that only affect the local device. To configure policies on individual computers, you can use Local Group Policy Editor on the target computer. You can target different policy settings to specific OUs, or use WMI filters to apply settings only to users or computers returned by a particular query.

This approach lets you manage policy settings globally. You can use Active Directory group policy to configure Microsoft Edge policy settings if you prefer to manage policy at the domain level. Alternatively, add these rules and settings to the Policy Definition template folder on individual computers and then configure the specific policies you want to set. To configure Microsoft Edge with group policy objects, install administrative templates that add rules and settings for Microsoft Edge to the group policy Central Store in your Active Directory domain.

Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise instances enrolled for device management in Microsoft Intune.

Windows devices that are joined to a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain.

You can also configure policies via the registry for: You can use group policy objects (GPO) to configure policy settings for Microsoft Edge and managed Microsoft Edge updates on all versions of Windows. Introduction to policy settings on Windows This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later.

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