Favorites are a great way to save and organize websites so you can revisit them quickly. In this blog post, we will discuss how to manage Microsoft Edge Chromium favorites with Microsoft Endpoint Manager | Intune.
From Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center, select Devices / Configuration Profiles and click on Create Profile
Select the following details and click on Create.
Platform : Windows 10 and later
Profile type : Templates
Template name : Administrative Templates
Endpoint Manager | Device Configuration | Edge favorites | Create Profile
in the Basic tab, enter a profile name and click on Next
In the Configuration settings tab, select Computer Configuration / Microsoft Edge and search for Favorites. Select Configure favorites from the result
As shown in the above screenshot, Configure favorites pane contains the details how favorites URLs need to be organized in JSON.
This setting creates managed favorites. You can specify a folder name, URL and name. You can also add a child folder. The user cannot remove these favorites. Once you have the JSON values ready, you need to copy the same in Configure favorites text box in next step.
Favorites JSON values:
[
{
"toplevel_name": "Techuisitive Favorites"
},
{
"url": "https://www.techuisitive.com/",
"name": "Techuisitive Website"
},
{
"url": "https://www.techuisitive.com/blog",
"name": "Techuisitive Blog"
},
{
"name": "Techuisitive Social Media",
"children": [
{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/Techuisitive/",
"name": "Facebook Page"
},
{
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/techuisitive",
"name": "Facebook Group"
}
]
}
]
In the Configure favorites pane, click on Enabled and copy the JSON value (created above) in Configure favorites text box. Click on Ok button to return to Configuration settings tab.
Click on Next to move to Scope tag. If you don’t have any scope tags then click on Next again to go to Assignments tab.
In the Assignments tab, add the group where you will target this profile. Click on Next to move to next tab.
In the Review + create tab, review the details and click on Create to complete policy creation process.
The policy is now created and you can validate the same from Devices | Device configuration blade.
To check if policy has been successfully applied on client machine, you can open Microsoft Edge and type edge://policy in address bar. You can see that favorites configured through Microsoft Endpoint Manager are appearing under ManagedFavorites policy name.
End User Experience
Here is a screenshot to show how favorites will looks at end user end.
