Edge Chromium Sccm



January 14, 2020

Here are the step-by-step instructions in deploying Edge Chromium using SCCM 1910. #SCCM #MECM #BTNHD Don't forget guys, if you like this video please 'Like'.

Been testing Edge Chromium deployment a lot the last couple of days as the we are getting really close to release when I write this.
С compiler for mac eclipse. Configuration Manager 1910 has a builtin feature to deploy and update Edge Chromium which looks great, hard to test the update part as the Stable release and updates are not released yet.

Edge Chromium Sccm
  1. Aug 16, 2020 The Group Policy Administrative Template (.ADMX +.ADML files) allows administrators to import the new Group Policy settings to block or unblock automatic delivery of Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) into their Group Policy environment, and use Group Policy to centrally execute the action across systems in their environment.
  2. Nov 11, 2011 Hi, Looking for ways to deploy Extensions for Microsoft Edge (Chromium), specifically the Cisco WebEx Extension. We need this as WebEx events and training do not open in the WebEx Meetings desktop application, they only open by installing the WebEx Edge extension or by running a temporary application, both of which are blocked for this organisation.

When creating the deployment of Edge Chromium using the built- feature we select channel and version to deploy. Which is great as we most likely will have developers, testers that needs the Beta/Dev version as well for testing.

Edge chromium sccm tool

It will download the content and create a Application with two deployment types one for x64 and one for x86, both are deployed using a PowerShell script. The PowerShell script also turns off automatic updates so that they can be handled by MEMCM instead of using EdgeUpdater.

Detection Method for the Deployment types are configured automatically to allow for updating of Edge Chromium using MEMCM as the detection method checks registry value and is configured with the operator “Greater than or equal to” as shown below. Parallels desktop for mac 13.

To be able to use the script the Powershell Execution policy needs to be set to RemoteSigned or Unrestriced.
Allsigned will timeout after 30 minutes
Restriced will result in immediate failure

Restriced is default in Windows 10 and if you are using that modifying the Install command will solve the problem for you by simply adding -ExecutionPolicy Bypass to the command line. Sample below
Sample original installation string:
powershell -File “.Install-Edge.ps1” -MSIName “MicrosoftEdgeBetaEnterpriseX64.msi” -ChannelID “{2cd8a007-e189-409d-a2c8-9af4ef3c72aa}”

Edge Chromium Sccm Tool

After adding -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
powershell -Executionpolicy bypass -File “.Install-Edge.ps1” -MSIName “MicrosoftEdgeBetaEnterpriseX64.msi” -ChannelID “{2cd8a007-e189-409d-a2c8-9af4ef3c72aa}”

Let’s look at the PowerShell script as well to prove that is sets the AutoUpdate policy to “0” , it is set during deployment.

If you choose to deploy Edge Chromium in another way make sure you configure AutoUpdate using GPO/Intune according to your update plan and that your detection method can handle the way you choose to update it!

Stay tuned for more Edge Chromium posts the coming days as it goes live!

Another small addition to Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 is a report which lists the various web browsers out there in your client estate which are set as default.

Edge Chromium Sccm Wsus

At the moment this is a first draft of the report as it doesn’t render the names properly as you can see. If you reference the official docs for this though you will see the translations as follows:

Microsoft Edge Chromium Sccm Package

  • AppXq0fevzme2pys62n3e0fbqa7peapykr8v: Microsoft Edge
  • IE.HTTP: Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • ChromeHTML: Google Chrome
  • OperaStable: Opera Software
  • FirefoxURL-308046B0AF4A39CB: Mozilla Firefox

Note the known issue listed in the official documents which states that you only see a count of browsers and not the browser code. I had this and you simply need to right click the report and Edit. In here you can then find the data source, right click and edit the query. You need to swap out the select statement for this one.

select BrowserProgId00 as BrowserProgId, Count(*) as Count
from DEFAULT_BROWSER_DATA as dbd
group by BrowserProgId00

I expect some progression on this one by the next tech preview release and hopefully in the future we can perhaps target the report at a specific collection.

/Peter

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