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Replace the wildcard (*) with URL’s which you consider safe. OBS: If this is a security concern to you, due to whatever reason, you can limit this to only work when coming from specific origins (say your own M365 tenant). This will allow every origin (coming from any web page), to open links in the associated application, which in this case is: Teams, OneNote, Word, Powerpoint and Excel, without prompting the user. Everything while assuming you know the protocols to use already.

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This page is supposed to tell you, how to format the list of protocols allowed to open in Edge without prompting the user. The documentation of the policy does wonders in confusing the regular admin, and sends you to this page in the docs: Filter format for Microsoft Edge URL policies | Microsoft Docs Looking at the given example, and then at the input field, made me wonder: How does this even work? What do I type in this field? Have no fear though, I will give you the results of making this prompt go away for when opening links using Teams and the rest of the apps in Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (also known as Office).įor good measures, some screenshots of the policy in question below: Now, looking at this and reading through the description, I must admit, I too was thinking to myself that looks overly complicated for something that seem so simple. This is a policy that was introduced with Edge version 85 sometime last year and is available via Administrative Templates in Microsoft Endpoint Manager (and Group Policy as well if you’re not managing Edge via Intune just yet). I must admit, initially I was on my way using Process Monitor so see if I could locate where this setting was stored, but then I stumbled upon this policy: Prompts which in most cases are irrelevant to the end-users, and by eliminating those, the user-experience is improved by a little.

The mentioned prompt is something that’s generated when opening links to Teams meetings, or when trying to open Office documents in their respective desktop application. This might seem like an odd and out of the ordinary post, but I needed this myself, and failed to find the relevant details described properly anywhere.

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The undo tweak is included in the ZIP archive.This is just a really quick post, describing how you configure Microsoft Edge to always – and without prompting the user – open certain links in their associated application.

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To save your time, you can download the following ready-to-use Registry files.

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It is not set by default, so users can manage the Always open PDF files externally setting in the browser as described in the first method in this post. The enforcement will be applied to all user accounts on your computer. When the PDF file download option is configured via the group policy option, users won't be able to change in Edge settings. The above tweak uses the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally policy which is supported in the browser starting in Edge 77. Alternatively, you can restart the Explorer shell.

To make the changes done by the Registry tweak take effect, you need to sign out and sign in to your user account.

By setting it to 0 you will force disable PDF file download in Microsoft Edge.

Set its value to 1 in decimals to force enable PDF file download in Microsoft Edge.

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Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows you must still create a 32-bit DWORD value.

On the right, modify or create a new 32-Bit DWORD value AlwaysOpenPdfExternally.

See how to go to a Registry key with one click. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge. Disable or Enable Download PDF Files in Edge for all users Family Safety (Microsoft Family Safety) Forms. Editor (Microsoft Editor) Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Endpoint Manager) Enterprise Mobility + Security. all you need to do is to disable the Always open PDF files externally option to make Edge open PDFs again.Īlternatively, you can apply a Group Policy tweak for Microsoft Edge and force enable or force disable the open PDFs feature for all users. Microsoft 365 gives you access to apps and cloud productivity services from virtually anywhere. Note: The default behavior can be easily restored by reverting the above steps, i.e. You are done. From now, Microsoft Edge will always download PDF file instead of opening them.

Turn on the Always open PDF files externally option.

Click on the PDF documents link on the right side.

On the left, click on Cookies and site permissions, or paste this in the address bar edge://settings/content.

Click on the Settings button ( Alt + F) and select Settings from the menu.Disable or Enable Download PDF Files in Edge for all users Make Microsoft Edge Download PDF Files instead of Opening