Windows 10: Find your flow with Enterprise New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge

Brink · Nov 12, 2019

How much time do you think you spend looking for things at work? Because our files and information are stored in so many places it’s probably quite a bit. In fact, according to McKinsey, we spend 20% of our work week just searching for internal information, tracking down colleagues, and trying to pick up where we left off. That’s one whole day a week.

That’s why we’re excited for you to try a new way to manage your work with the new Microsoft Edge, now available in Microsoft Edge Insider preview builds. When signed in with an Azure Active Directory work account, opening a new tab in Microsoft Edge delivers a dynamic and personalized set of your most relevant Office documents, internal web sites, company resources, and other Microsoft 365 content.

Each new tab layout is populated by features that leverage the intelligence of the Office 365 graph to find what you need, right when you need it.

Microsoft Search in Bing: Search bar for the web and the intranet; find people, documents, and internal sites, just by searching.

Dynamic Site Tiles: Below the search bar you’ll find a set of tiles populated with your most commonly used websites or important internal sites configured by a company admin.

Recommended Content: Easy access to recently shared or often accessed files that are most important to you and your team.

Recent files & sites: Immediately below Recommended documents are lists of recent Office files (on the left) and frequently used SharePoint sites (on the right).

Content and Layout Selection: An easy toggle allows navigation between content feeds (‘Office 365’ and ‘Microsoft News’)

Please check out the additional details on the capabilities below, then try it yourself by downloading a Microsoft Edge Insider build. Tell us what you like, what doesn’t work for you, and anything else you think could help you find your flow on the Enterprise new tab experience.

Microsoft Search in Bing

If you’re looking for something you haven’t used in a while, just perform a search. Artificial intelligence technology from Bing and personalized insights from the Microsoft Graph connect you to the best of the web and work in a single experience. Whether you’re working in SharePoint, OneDrive, Office, or Bing, and communicating with Microsoft Teams or Yammer, you can search all of your files and conversations in one place, giving you the information you need, right when you need it most. Try searching for a document, conversation, colleague, or even yourself. Click here to explore Microsoft Search in Bing. You can also click here to read documentation on how to get set up and running with Microsoft Search in Bing in your organization.

Dynamic Site Tiles

Eight tiles provide visual links back to the sites you use most; the algorithm to compute these is run locally on your device, based on your browsing history, also stored locally. No data needs to leave your machine for these to work. We’re also introducing a new policy enabling IT Administrators to program up to 3 of these tiles. These can be enabled via enforced policy, which pins the tile permanently or recommended policy, which allows more frequently used sites to replace that tile. Administrators will also specify the URL, title. Click here to learn more about this policy. To learn about all Microsoft Edge policies, click here.

Recommended Content

In the face of ever-expanding file, email, and discussion traffic, the Recommended Documents feature is the ‘magic’ that surfaces what you need most. It is the intelligence that monitors all file activity and uses machine learning to produce a short list of files, saving you time and allowing you to pick up right where you left off.

The Office Graph provides brains behind the Recommended content module. The Office Graph continuously collects and analyses signals that you and your colleagues send when you work in Office 365. For example, when you and a colleague modify or view the same document, it’s a signal that you’re likely to be working together. Other signals include who you communicate with through e-mail, and who you’ve shared documents with, who your manager is, and who has the same manager as you.

With Recommended content, you’ll be served a series of cards that provide information about the content and collaboration status of a few documents that we believe you should pay attention to. For example, a Microsoft Word file that has had 3 different edits in the last day, an Excel file where you’ve been @mentioned with a couple of questions, and an important presentation your team is working on with 5 unread comments.

Each card contains easily scannable information so you can quickly prioritize what to work on next without breaking your flow.

The center of the card: features a thumbnail so you can quickly recognize the file.

The top: features an icon to indicate what type of activity is most significant and who it was associated with and when the activity occurred.

At the bottom: of the card, you’ll find the file name as well as the location of the file for reference.

Please note that for documents to appear in the Recommended section, they must be stored on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Click here to learn more about the Office Graph.

Recent Files & Sites

Another way to stay focused and in your workflow is to organize the work you’ve been doing most recently. That’s why, immediately below Recommended documents, you’ll see lists of recent files (on the left) and frequent SharePoint sites (on the right). Organized into 4 helpful views:

Recent: Your recently accessed files. Hovering over an item allows additional actions like pinning, sharing, and opening in browser or desktop.

Pinned: Filters your recent documents down to only those you’ve pinned.

Shared with me: A list of files that have been shared with you, whether you’ve recently opened them or not.

Discover: In discover, you’ll see a mix of both your own documents, and documents your colleagues are working on so you have additional awareness about team projects. These are documents that are stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint in Office 365, or that have been shared with you as attachments in emails. These documents aren’t organized according to a timeline, for example last modified, or in alphabetical order. Instead, these documents are organized according to what’s likely to be most relevant to you right now.

Settings Flyout

In the upper right is a quick way for you to switch back to the Microsoft News content & layout choices, and coming soon, the ability to choose various layouts that best suit your flow.

We’re also introducing a policy enabling IT Administrators to set page content. This can be enabled via enforced policy, which prevents switching or recommended policy, which allows switching between Microsoft News and Office 365 page content. Click here to learn more about this policy. To learn about all Microsoft Edge policies, click here.

Microsoft 365 Compliance

The Enterprise new tab experience integrates compliant M365 services and is architected so that your data stays within your organization’s boundaries.

Microsoft Search in Bing: Address bar and in-page search is supported by Microsoft Search in Bing. Explore the links in the “Microsoft Search in Bing” section to learn more about how your data is protected.

Dynamic Site Tiles: computed locally using local device data. For these, nothing leaves your device.

Office content: This content is powered by existing compliant M365 services like the Recommended Content service, recent file service, and recent SharePoint sites service.

If your organization needs to comply with legal or regulatory standards, start here to learn about compliance in Microsoft 365.

More to Come for Enterprise New Tab Experience

We are looking forward for you to download the new Microsoft Edge and experience these new workflows to collect your feedback. Providing feedback is easy. Just click the smiley face in the top-right corner of the browser to let us know what you like or want to see improved:

In the meantime, we’re working on adding support for new and compliant ways for enterprise end users to and IT admins to personalize, configure, and use the Enterprise New Tab Page for productivity in their day-to-day workflows.

Thank you for trying out the new Microsoft Edge. We welcome your comments below!

– Chad Rothschiller, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
– Matt Betz, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Edge
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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/...-new-tab-page/

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Shawn Brink · Nov 12, 2019

Enable or Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge in Local Group Policy Editor

How to Enable or Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge in Windows 10

Microsoft Edge is a new web browser that is available across the Windows 10 device family. It is designed for Windows 10 to be faster, safer, and compatible with the modern Web.

By default, users can select to have the New Tab page open with top sites, top sites and suggested content, or a blank page in Microsoft Edge.

You can use the Allow web content on New Tab page group policy to enable or disable web content on the New Tab page in Microsoft Edge.

Disabling this policy loads a blank page instead of the New tab page and prevents users from changing it.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable web content on the New Tab page in Microsoft Edge for all users in Windows 10.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable web content on the New Tab page in Microsoft Edge.

CONTENTS:

Option One: Enable or Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge in Local Group Policy Editor

Option Two: Enable or Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Web content disabled on New Tab page in Microsoft Edge

OPTION ONE

Enable or Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge in Local Group Policy Editor

*note The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option TWO below.

1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2. In the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Microsoft Edge

3. In the right pane of Microsoft Edge in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Allow web content on New Tab page policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you want.

5. To Enable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge
A) Select (dot) Not Configured or Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note Not Configured is the default setting.

6. To Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge
A) Select (dot) Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

7. You can close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.

8. If Microsoft Edge is currently open, then close and reopen the browser to apply.

OPTION TWO

Enable or Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\ServiceUI

AllowWebContentOnNewTabPage DWORD

delete = Enable
0 = Disable

1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you want.

2. To Enable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_web_content_on_New_Tab_page_in_Microsoft_Edge.reg

3. To Disable Web Content on New Tab Page in Microsoft Edge
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_web_content_on_New_Tab_page_in_Microsoft_Edge.reg

4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. If Microsoft Edge is currently open, then close and reopen the browser to apply.

8. If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.

That's it,
Shawn

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How to Change what New Tabs in Microsoft Edge Open with in Windows 10

Pawan Dhondiyal · Nov 12, 2019

open a new tab to my home page in edge

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. Let me assist you.

You can set New Tab as a Home Page on Microsoft Edge. Please follow the below steps to do so.

Steps:-

Open Microsoft Edge.

Click on the three dots (…)
on the top right corner.

Select Settings.

Under the option, “Open with”, check and select, “New Tab Page.”

Close and Reopen the browser and check.

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

Brink · Nov 12, 2019

Managing Microsoft Edge in the enterprise

At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, we introduced the enterprise story for the web on Windows 10. Microsoft Edge is designed from the ground up to provide a , interoperable, and secure browsing experience; in addition, Internet Explorer 11 is also a part of Windows 10 to help bring all your legacy line of business (LOB) applications forward.

Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 work together to help ease IT management overhead, and also provide a seamless user experience for your users. In this post, we’ll walk through the policies you can use to manage Microsoft Edge in the enterprise for both PCs and mobile devices, including some new policies coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

Policies currently supported in Microsoft Edge

With Microsoft Edge, we set out to provide a simple, consistent set of scenario-driven management policies to help manage Windows 10 browser deployments on both desktop and mobile. The policies for Microsoft Edge on desktop are available as both Group Policy settings and MDM settings. On mobile they are available as MDM settings.

Here is a summary of all the policies supported by Microsoft Edge grouped by Windows 10 releases:

Available in Windows 10 version 1507 or later:

Configure Autofill

Configure Cookies

Configure Do Not Track

Configure Password Manager

Configure Pop up Blocker

Configure search suggestions in the Address bar

Configure the Enterprise Mode Site List

Configure the SmartScreen Filter

Send all intranet sites to Internet Explorer 11

Available in Windows 10 version 1511 or later:

Allow Developer Tools

Allow InPrivate browsing

Allow web content on New Tab page

Configure Favorites

Configure Home pages (see additional note below)

Prevent bypassing SmartScreen prompts for files

Prevent bypassing SmartScreen prompts for sites

Prevent sharing LocalHost IP address for WebRTC

What’s new in Windows 10 Anniversary update

We have added support for the following new Microsoft Edge management policies as a part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update:

Allow access to the about:flags page

Allow usage of extensions

Configure WebRTC media port ranges

Show a transitional message when opening Internet Explorer sites

We’ve made a few updates to existing policies based on feedback from customers. First, all of the Microsoft Edge Group Policy settings on desktop are now available in both the User and Machine policy hives. Second, the home page policy configured on a domain-joined device will no longer allow the user to override the setting.

You can find further details on all Microsoft Edge policies on TechNet, including info about Windows 10 policies that also apply to Microsoft Edge, such as Cortana and Sync settings. Your feedback is important to us, so please let us know what you think or if you have any questions about these changes!

– Dalen Abraham, Principal Program Manager Lead
– Jatinder Mann, Senior Program Manager Lead
– Josh Rennert, Program Manager
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Source: Managing Microsoft Edge in the enterprise | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog

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