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Policy needed: "Go to an intranet site for a one-word entry in the Address bar"
- 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
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
Hello @ToMMeR, @stesch79 @paf_skov and AngelPRU,
Thank you for your patience and for the additional responses.
In the today's Canary build, the policy GoToIntranetSiteForSingleWordEntryInAddressBar is now available for you to try out. Using gpedit.msc, you can find the policy under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Edge and it's Setting title reads, "Forces direct intranet site navigation instead of searching on single word entries in the Address Bar".
Please test this out in your environments and let us know if this meets your needs. I'm particularly interested in feedback on the following:
- Does this policy satisfy the requirement originally stated in this thread? If not, how can we improve it?
- How does this policy interact with the other policies you enforce (for example, if you disable the default search provider or if you force deletion of history on exit as described).
- How your organization members respond to having this policy applied when they attempt to search for single-word entries or navigate to external websites with single-word domains (in environments where the default search provider is permitted and firewalls permit access to such domains).
Of course, I'd love to hear any other feedback you have related to this policy as well.
On behalf of the Microsoft Edge team, thank you!
Jared
- Aaron RomaAug 30, 2019Copper Contributor
Do you know what version of the admin templates this new policy is available in? I just now downloaded the latest published, and I can't find that policy.
The one downloaded shows:
MAJOR=78
MINOR=0
BUILD=249
PATCH=1