February 14, 2020

New Group Policies in Edge Chromium 80

By Jörgen Nilsson General, Windows 10 0 Comments

With a new version of Edge Chromium there is of course new setting we can do = new ADMX/AMDL files. It is important for admin to keep up so even if we allow auto-update of Edge Chromium there is still work that needs to be done for every new release.

This is the new Group policy settings I found that is new for Edge Chromium 80 and 81.

New Group Policy settings in Edge Chromium 80 and later

Setting	Description
DefaultInsecureContentSetting	Control use of insecure content exceptions
InsecureContentAllowedForUrls	Allow insecure content on specified sites
InsecureContentBlockedForUrls	Control use of insecure content exceptions
LegacySameSiteCookieBehaviorEnabled	Enable default legacy SameSite cookie behavior setting
LegacySameSiteCookieBehaviorEnabledForDomainList	Revert to legacy SameSite behavior for cookies on specified sites
SmartScreenPuaEnabled	Configure Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to block potentially unwanted apps
AlternateErrorPagesEnabled	Suggest similar pages when a webpage can’t be found
DNSInterceptionChecksEnabled	DNS interception checks enabled
HideFirstRunExperience	Hide the First-run experience and splash screen
PaymentMethodQueryEnabled	Allow websites to query for available payment methods
PersonalizationReportingEnabled	Allow personalization of ads, search and news by sending browsing history to Microsoft
PinningWizardAllowed	Allow Pin to taskbar wizard
TotalMemoryLimitMb	Set limit on megabytes of memory a single Microsoft Edge instance can use.
WebAppInstallForceLisl	Configure list of force-installed Web Apps
WebRtcLocalIpsAllowedUrls	Manage exposure of local IP addressess by WebRTC

New Group Policy settings in Edge Chromium 81 and later

Setting	Description
GloballyScopeHTTPAuthCacheEnabled	Enable globally scoped HTTP auth cache
AmbientAuthenticationInPrivateModesEnabled	Enable Ambient Authentication for InPrivate and Guest profiles
AudioSandboxEnabled	Allow the audio sandbox to run
ImportCookies	Allow importing of Cookies
ImportExtensions	Allow importing of extensions
ImportShortcuts	Allow importing of shortcuts
InternetExplorerIntegrationSiteRedirect	Specify how “in-page” navigations to unconfigured sites behave when started from Internet Explorer mode pages
OmniboxMSBProviderEnabled	Enable Microsoft Search for Business provider in omnibox
StricterMixedContentTreatmentEnabled	Enable stricter treatment for mixed content
TLS13HardeningForLocalAnchorsEnabled	Enable a TLS 1.3 security feature for local trust anchors

Deprecated – removed in future releases

Setting	Description
ForceLegacyDefaultReferrerPolicy	Use a default referrer policy of no-referrer-when-downgrade.
WebComponentsV0Enabled	Re-enable Web Components v0 API until M84.

This one is really nice,”Hide the First-run experience and splash screen” no more first-run experience and splash screen!