Windows 10: GPO Management Show Favorites bar

Hello,

I hope I am in right spot. I am "cleaning" up the GPOs in a new facility I am currently at. And also just making general changes. One of the things that the previous IT staff didn't do was configure the OS at all. So there are computers (all Windows 10) and our RDS servers (Server 2008 which is going away soon) where Favorites bar is not showing. Where is that in Group Policy Management? I see this: User Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer/Turn on Favorites bar. That's doesn't make the Favorites bar show. I know the registry is this:

[HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MINIE]"LinksBandEnabled"=dword:00000001

My coworkers and boss are leary of registry changes. I am not but that's why I am asking this to please them.

I'd like all group policies to be good before we deploy our 2016 RDS servers.

Thank you.

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GPO Management Show Favorites bar

Hello,

I hope I am in right spot. I am "cleaning" up the GPOs in a new facility I am currently at. And also just making general changes. One of the things that the previous IT staff didn't do was configure the OS at all. So there are computers (all Windows 10) and our RDS servers (Server 2008 which is going away soon) where Favorites bar is not showing. Where is that in Group Policy Management? I see this: User Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Internet Explorer/Turn on Favorites bar. That's doesn't make the Favorites bar show. I know the registry is this:

[HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MINIE]"LinksBandEnabled"=dword:00000001

My coworkers and boss are leary of registry changes. I am not but that's why I am asking this to please them.

I'd like all group policies to be good before we deploy our 2016 RDS servers.

Thank you.

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I got it to work with this:

 

Favorites Bar

Hi,

Welcome and thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Please provide us the required information to help you better:

Which browser are you referring to?

Please follow the steps to not shows items in Favorites bar in Microsoft Edge:

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  Select More actions (…) on the address bar, then Settings.
  
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  Turn off Show favorites bar.
  

And to do the same in Internet Explorer:

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  In Internet Explorer, right-click any empty space in the area above the address bar.
  
• 
  Select Favorites bar.
  

Hope this information helps. Please post us with the required information if issue persists.

Thank you.

 

Edge GPO Customization Questions: Favorites bar, etc.


Hey guys,

We're slowly but surely upgrading our employee workstations to Windows 10. Right now in our Windows domain, we have some group policy objects in place that force the favorites bar to display in Internet Explorer, and also update/add our company intranet sites to the favorites bar upon login.

With IE, it was easy enough - you can just create the .lnk files in the favorites folder, and they show up.

I was doing some experimentation with Edge's favorites bar and it's not that simple. Creating links in there does nothing by itself, it looks like there's also some XML file that has metadata and links back to that file.

What I'd like to do via GPOs is to have the favorites bar displayed by default, and to have a list of favorites added to the favorites bars based on Active Directory group membership.

I imported the .admx files for Edge, but there aren't any settings for these. Is it possible to do via registry/other tweaks? We can import .reg files via GPO just fine, if a workaround of that fashion is needed.

Also, any way to have it set Google as the default search engine so people don't have to go do it the first time they log on? Most of our users aren't that knowledgeable so they'd end up using Bing without meaning to and are used to using Google.