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Daniele Milani
Daniele Milani

Reputation: 573

Force install Microsoft Edge extension enterprise environment

I am trying to automatically install a Microsoft Edge Extension in an enterprise managed environment: Google Chrome allow this behavior (check this post for further information), but it seems impossible to do the same for Edge (the Edge extension policy states that "The installation must be initiated and completed by the user, using only the user experience provided by Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft Store").

Edit 5/8/20

The new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium supports GPOs (cfr. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#extensioninstallforcelist)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7660

Answers (2)

Daniele Milani
Daniele Milani

Reputation: 573

I've been able to forcefully install an extension in a managed environment using this guide.
Unfortunately, when the user open Edge for the first time after the extension has been configured a popup shows up, asking him if he wants to turn the extension on or not, and right now there is no way to forcefully enable the extension.

Upvotes: 2

abielita
abielita

Reputation: 13469

As you've said, I think it's not yet possible. You may check this thread which also stated that installation of extensions for Microsoft Edge must be initiated and completed by the user. However, there's a suggestion to try Add-AppxPackage which adds a signed app package (.appx) to a user account. Just make sure that package is signed because otherwise Add-AppxPackage would not work.

Upvotes: 1

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