In the below example, I have configured some basic group policy settings to demonstrate. You would also need to evaluate the settings within IE to determine if the required configurations were actually applied as expected. We had to make use of the command line tool (gpresult) and Resultant Set of Policies (RSOP.msc) to determine which policies are applied to the user and computer. With Internet Explorer group policies, it wasn’t always easy to determine exactly which policies and settings were applied. With the basics covered, I can move on to the good part and show you the easy way of verifying which Microsoft Edge policies are applied to the end user.

This can be used to enforce corporate standards and baseline security configurations. These are the settings that your end users would not be able to change. The other node “Microsoft Edge” are mandatory or enforced settings. These are settings that you would configure to give your users a consistent experience, but these settings can be changed by the end user to suite their own preferences. The “Default Settings” node performs a similar function as Group Policy Preferences (GPP). With Microsoft Edge though, you should notice that there are two nodes available, as shown in the image below. As with most group policy settings, you can configure settings within the user configuration and computer configuration. Group policy templates for Microsoft Edge are available to download.

This is very useful for verification of Microsoft Edge group policy deployments. In this article I specifically want to talk around the feature in Microsoft Edge which allows you to see which policies are applied to the browser. Microsoft Edge is ready for business and has dedicated deployment resources for the enterprise. Unlike the original Edge browser, which is only available for Windows 10, the new Microsoft Edge Chromium based browser can be installed on Windows 7/8/8.1/10 and is also available for MacOS. The new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium was released in January 2020.

Microsoft edge show downloads