Office 365 – You can now control Edge configuration from O365 administration portal

As you know you can control Microsoft Edge configuration either using group policies (for Active Directory joined devices) or Intune (for both AD or Azure AD Joined devices).

Well, a new option is now available to manage Edge configuration: the Office 365 administration portal.

This new capability is currently being deployed for targeted tenant, while deployment for standard tenant it is schedule to start late June with completion expected by early July.

To do so, connect to your Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) to access the Settings\Microsoft Edge blade with either your global administrator or Edge administrator account.

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From there you can create configuration profile(s) which help you to configure settings and extensions

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Each profile can only be assigned to 1 Azure AD group, but supports nested groups.

Finally you need to enable the Edge Management Service using the below registry keys

Path: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

Key name: EdgeAdminCenterEnabled

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 1

Path: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

Key name: EdgeAdminCenterUseOCPSEndpoint

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 1

If you don’t want to use group assignment to deploy the configuration profile, you can use an enrolment token (token ID) associated with the below registry

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Path: HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

Key name: EdgeAdminCenterEnrollmentToken

Type: REG_SZ

Value: <enrolment token of the profile>

Any policies you apply with Microsoft Edge Management Service will be overridden if they conflict with an existing Group Policy Object (GPO) or Mobile Device Management (MDM).

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