Let’s discuss enable or disable Address Bar Dropdown Policy in MS Edge Browser using Intune. Microsoft Intune policy allows you to configure policy to manage Address Bar settings. From the Settings catalog, you can configure the polices for targeted devices.
The Address Bar Dropdown Policy in Microsoft Edge determines whether users see suggested search results when typing in the address bar. You can enable or disable according to the organisational preferences.
Users can efficiently navigate to previously visited sites, bookmarks, and commonly searched queries. Restricting address bar behaviors helps organisations meet data protection regulations by preventing the automatic display of sensitive information.
IT administrators can configure address bar policies centrally, making it easier to maintain security and compliance across devices. With this blog post, I would like to guide you how to Enable or Disable Address Bar Dropdown Policy using Intune.
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Benefits of Address Bar Dropdown Policy
Configuring this policy allows users to find relevant results more quickly, reducing time spent searching. This policy provide the intuitive dropdown makes web browsing more seamless and accessible.
Enable or Disable Address Bar Dropdown Policy in MS Edge Browser using Intune
The dropdown suggestions in Address Bar help streamline browsing by reducing typing effort, making navigation more intuitive. By configuring this policy reduces typing effort and speeds up browsing by providing relevant suggestions.
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Windows CSP Details
The CSP details of the Address Bar Dropdown Policy show applicability of the policy. By checking the CSP details you can configure the policy according to the applicable OS, scope and editions.
Description Framework Properties
The following are the Description Framework Properties of Address Bar Dropdown Policy. The following table shows the attributes and behaviours of this policy.
| Property name | Property value |
|---|---|
| Format | int |
| Access Type | Add, Delete, Get, Replace |
| Default Value | 1 |
Allowed Values
The table below shows the allowed values of Address Bar Dropdown Policy. You can refer the table below before configuring the policy in your tenant.
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Prevented/not allowed. Hide the Address bar drop-down functionality and disable the Show search and site suggestions as I type toggle in Settings. |
| 1 (Default) | Allowed. Show the Address bar drop-down list and make it available. |
Steps to Configure Address Bar Dropdown Policy
With some steps, you can easily configure the edge open in sidebar policy. To start policy creation, Open the Microsoft Intune admin center. Go to Devices > Configuration > Policies > + New Policy.
Create a Profile
After that you will get create a profile window. Form this window you have to select platform and profile type. First of all you select platform, then only you can select profile type.
- Select Windows 10 and later as platform
- Select settings catalog as profile type.
- Click on the create button
Basic Tab
Basic tab is the initial step of policy creation on this tab you have to give a name for the policy that you want to create the name field is mandatory. Without giving a name you can’t create policy on the basic tab. You can also give the description for the policy, which is not compulsory. Click on the next button.
Configuration Settings Tab
On the configuration tab you can select specific policy settings to manage your organisation’s devices. On this page click on the + Add settings hyperlink. Then you will get settings picker that will show different types of categories to select specific settings. Here I browser category and select Allow Address Bar Dropdown enabled settings.
Enable Address Bar Dropdown Policy
After selecting the settings you can close the settings picker page on the configuration settings page. The default value of Address Bar Dropdown is enabled. If you want to keep the enabled settings click on the create button.
Disable Address Bar Dropdown
Here I would like to disabled this policy so I select the disabled value by toggle the pane to the left side. By disable this setting, employees won’t see the Address bar drop-down functionality in Microsoft Edge. Follow the below screenshot.
Scope Tag
Next section is the scope tag and which is not a compulsory. There is no need to adding scope tags. Here I skip the section and click on the next button. The below screenshot shows more details.
Assignments Tab
The Assignments tab is the crucial step that determine which are the groups can be selected to assign the policy. Click on the +Add groups option under included groups. Select the group from the list of groups on your tenant. Click on the Select button.
- And you can see the selected group on the Assignment tab.
- Click on the Next button from the below window.
Review + Create Tab
Review + Create tab is the final stage of policy creation. On this tab you can verify each and every details of policy which are added on the previous steps. If you want to make any changes click on the previous button otherwise you can click on the create button.
Device and User Check-in Status
When the policy created successfully, you can sync the device on the company portal for faster deployment. After that, you can check the monitoring status on the Company Portal. Here the Status shows succeeded as 1.
Client Side Verification – Event Viewer
Checking Client Side verification helps you to determine the policy is deployed on the targeted group. To do this you can check client side verification using Event Viewer. Open the Event Viewer and navigate to Application and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > DeviceManagement–Enterprise–Diagnostics–Provider > Admin.
- Here the Success Event ID is 813
MDM PolicyManager: Set policy int, Policy: (AllowAddressBarDropdown), Area: (Browser),
EnrollmentID requesting merge: (B1E9301C-8666-412A-BA2F-3BF8A55BFA62), Current User:
(Device), Int: (0x0), Enrollment Type: (0x6), Scope: (0x0).
How to Remove Address Bar Dropdown Policy
Intune Policy Removal is a easy process that can be used to remove unnecessary Policy from your tenant. To remove the policy open the Policy, go the Assignment tab and you can Edit the policy. The more details can be found from the below post.
For more information you can refer our previous post – Learn How to Delete or Remove App Assignment from Intune using Step by Step Guide
Delete Address Bar Dropdown Policy
You can enable or disable Address Bar Dropdown policy from Intune. Using some simple steps you can easily delete the policy from Intune Portal. For more information you can refer our previous post – How to Delete Allow Clipboard History Policy in Intune Step by Step Guide.
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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.