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Brass Contributor

Aug 02, 2019

Policy needed: "Go to an intranet site for a one-word entry in the Address bar"

For enterprise a policy like the one in IE called "Go to an intranet site for a one-word entry in the Address bar" is very needed. As an enterprise we have a lot of intranet sites and services usi...

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JaredB81
Aug 14, 2019
Thank you, ToMMeR, stesch79 and paf_skov for your feedback. I can appreciate those circumstances and your request.

We will look into adding a policy to make single-word queries navigate and I'll follow up on this thread with an update as soon as I have one.

Thanks again for giving us this important feedback and for describing your specific scenarios! It helps!

Jared

JaredB81

Microsoft

ToMMeR thank you for your feedback!

You are correct that Edge will perform a search on the single-word entry that omits the https:// prefix the first time, however once the user visits the intranet site, subsequent entries of the same text will auto-complete to the history entry and therefore perform a direct navigation to the intranet site.

I do hear your request for a policy to allow organizations to override the behavior I described and we are happy to consider that approach, however one thing that's important to note is that it will make it much more difficult for non-intranet, single-word query terms to be searched by users of any organization that enables such a policy should it be implemented.

Instead of conducting a search, all single-word queries would attempt to internally navigate and so any queries that don't match an intranet site would fail instead of search.

Please let us know if the current behavior which I described (relying on history entries for direct navigation to intranet sites), is sufficient for you, or if a policy is still important to you.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Jared

paf_skov

Copper Contributor

Aug 13, 2019

JaredB81- As the new Edge will replace and emulate IE for enterprises, it must respect the same GPO settings, including this one. Many enterprises use single-word names, for example, "intra" in our case.

Because it falls back to sending the word to the search engine if no host replies, it is not a problem, and something users have been used to for decades.

Peter 🙂

AngelPRU
Brass Contributor
Aug 23, 2019
paf_skov

Agreed, we have used this policy for a long time, with IE, and when we rolled out Edge initially, this was the top requested design feature request, enabling single-word support for intranet sites.