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MVP

Oct 01, 2019

Edge insider Dev bypasses IE mode website list

My Server and clients are both Windows Server 2019 (fully updated), Microsoft Edge insider Version 79.0.279.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit), here are the Group Policies being applied to Edge ins...

Shilpa_Subramanian
Oct 02, 2019
HotCakeX Just making sure I understand the issue - when you say Edge bypasses the site list, are you expecting bing.com from your list to open in IE mode? If so, you will need to set the <open-in> tag to IE11 instead of MSEdge.

Let me know if I misunderstood the problem.

HotCakeX

MVP

Oct 01, 2019

HotCakeX

here is what I suspect:

in this part:

"InternetExplorerIntegrationSiteList": {
         "level": "mandatory",
         "scope": "user",
         "source": "platform",
         "value": "\\\\SERVER-1\\share\\sites.xml"
      },

the Value is "\\\\SERVER-1\\share\\sites.xml"

is it possible that the quadruple backward slashes are causing the issue?

as you can see I've correctly only put double backward slashes in the group policy:

as stated here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/edge-ie-mode#configure-sites-on-the-enterprise-site-list

(Recommended) HTTPS location: https://localhost:8080/sites.xml
Local network file: \\network\shares\sites.xml
Local file: file:///c:/Users/<user>/Documents/sites.xml

HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 01, 2019
HotCakeX
I also tried the HTTPS way but still no luck

this value is set inside group policy object:
https://server-1.domain.local/sitelist/sites.xml
(replaced my actual domain name with domain.local for posting in here)

the list is accessible on both server and client and in Edge insider Dev,
- Shilpa_Subramanian
  Microsoft
  Oct 02, 2019
  HotCakeX Just making sure I understand the issue - when you say Edge bypasses the site list, are you expecting bing.com from your list to open in IE mode? If so, you will need to set the <open-in> tag to IE11 instead of MSEdge.
  
  Let me know if I misunderstood the problem.
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Oct 03, 2019
    Thank you!
    Oh sorry my bad,
    I thought MSEdge tag means the site will load with internet explorer compatibility mode inside Edge
    and IE tag means the side will open in Internet explorer program itself outside Edge.
    but obviously I was wrong.
    now I see to open a website in internet explorer program itself this is the tag
    <open-in app="true">IE11</open-in> and Not this <open-in>IE11</open-in>
    
    I should have read this page more carefully:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/edge-ie-mode#configure-sites-on-the-enterprise-site-list
    
    Thanks again