New Microsoft Edge for Business feature

[AndrewSAIF]

Hello,

I came across this upcoming feature in a news article. I didn't see it discussed here or on the insider blog, but maybe I missed it. Anyway, FYI, sounds interesting:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-for-business

Microsoft Edge for Business is a new, dedicated Microsoft Edge experience built for work that enables admins in organizations to give their users a productive and secure work browser across managed and unmanaged devices. It has the same rich set of enterprise controls, security, and productivity features that you're already familiar with in Microsoft Edge, but it's built to help meet the evolving needs of businesses.

Microsoft Edge for Business aims to address the needs of both end users and IT Pros as the browser that automatically separates work and personal browsing into dedicated browser windows with their own favorites, separate caches and storage locations. This separation ensures that work related content doesn't get intermingled with personal browsing, preventing cognitive overload or end users from accidentally sharing sensitive information with unintended audiences. Microsoft Edge for Business is going to be the standard browser experience for organizations, activated by an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) login, upon general availability. Check out our build announcement.

Microsoft Edge for Business is available in private preview on managed PCs, and unmanaged BYOPC.

[#2]

@AndrewSAIF Hi!  Microsoft Edge for Business was recently added to our Beta Release Notes: Microsoft Edge release notes for Beta Channel | Microsoft Learn and to the M365 Roadmap (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=144362)

Please try it out and provide feedback!  If you have any questions or issues let us know!  Thanks! 

-Kelly

[#3]

Are we going to have any polices that will allow us to disable this feature, at least until we understand how to implement or train for it? It seems like it's more intended for BYOPC users than users on enterprise owned machines. Our policies are applied at the machine level, so they're going to be exactly the same on both profiles. It's just extra user confusion, without much benefit to us at this time.

[#4]

@db1080 It appears the only means to control this is restricting users sign in via the GPO RestrictSigninToPattern. Other then this it does not look like Microsoft provides much in the way of opting out of this especially in an enterprise environment. 

Ref: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-edge-insider/microsoft-edge-for-business-faq/ba-p/3...