- Up next, as you transition to enjoying
the benefits of the modern Edge browser,
I'll show you how you can easily continue
using your Internet Explorer-dependent sites
and web apps as an individual user
or at scale using IE mode with the recently released
cloud-managed Microsoft Edge site list
for Microsoft 365, all enforced
with your favorite policy tools of choice.
Now if you're new to Microsoft Edge as a modern browser,
it brings a lot of productivity as well as privacy and
multiple security options.
Built on the Chromium engine, as you'd expect,
it's designed for performance
and compatibility with current web standards.
And importantly, Microsoft Edge is also built
with a dual engine advantage
for compatibility with existing IE dependent sites
that you use every day.
And with support for Internet Explorer
going away in most versions of Windows 10
as of June 15th, 2022, you have a smooth transition path.
In fact, Microsoft Edge includes IE mode
for your IE dependent sites, which lets you open them
just like you would in Internet Explorer
without leaving the Edge browser,
meaning that you can continue using
these apps for years to come, at least until 2029.
Now to get IE mode running,
let me first walk you through the user experience
before moving to the admin experience.
As a user, you have a few manual options
to enable IE mode.
First, you can go into the ellipse in the upper right corner
then down to settings,
select default browser on the left
and under Allow sites to be reloaded
in Internet Explorer mode, you have a few options.
Default will let you reload a site in IE mode,
depending on the recent Internet Explorer history.
Allow then lets you manually reload a page in IE mode.
Let me show you what that looks like in another tab.
So I'm going to go to the ellipse,
and then select Reload in Internet Explorer mode,
and you'll see the page opens.
And it also shows me options to open the page
in IE mode next time.
I can enable that and hit done
so that it's added to my local site list; the next time
the page will open automatically in IE mode.
Now on the left side of the address bar,
I can also see the Internet Explorer icon
that's telling me this page is opened in IE mode.
And I can also see the info bar option
"show in toolbar" to add this as a control to easily
reload any page in IE mode simply by hitting
this button from now on.
And if I click into the IE icon,
I get the same options that I just showed.
This time I'll click into manage.
And that takes me to my settings again.
And I can see that this site was added
to my list of sites and it will open in IE mode
for the next 30 days.
Then after that, you can re-add it if needed.
By hitting add, I can also manually add
another address to the list,
but for now I'll cancel out of this.
Now I'm going to delete the page I just added to my list.
Then I'll go back to the Fabrikam Customer Portal home
so I can show you other options
for enabling IE mode.
I can right click on any link and choose open link
in new Internet Explorer mode tab,
or if I move to the tab itself,
right clicking on it shows me that option as well.
By the way, if you see that any of the settings
that I just mentioned are locked,
chances are that your admin is directly managing
the experience on behalf of your entire organization
so that you don't have to worry about it.
Speaking of, which as an admin
you can really make the experience seamless for your users
so they never have to enable IE mode manually.
There are multiple options to manage the experience
at scale, using your preferred policy management tools
to configure these settings for dozens or even thousands
of PCs along with all the sites that require IE mode.
Now, while you can continue to use IE mode site lists
hosted internally on your network,
in the Microsoft 365 admin center, you can now even
create, host, and manage your Edge site lists online.
Now this is a simpler option for setting up
Edge site lists in the cloud and you can
enforce them on your managed PCs.
So let me show you the experience
from the Microsoft 365 admin center with Endpoint Manager
for policy enforcement.
To get to the site list experience,
just navigate to org settings,
then Microsoft Edge site lists.
And if this is your first time here,
you'll start by creating a new list.
Now we'll give it a name,
and optionally I can add a description.
Now I've just set up one list,
but you might have multiple lists,
which can be useful if you have deployment rings set up.
For example, here I have a default policy ring
that's suitable for most users.
There's another more aggressive validation policy ring,
as I start to reduce my list of IE sites,
and finally a conservative policy ring
where less frequent changes are made.
Now, once I have one or more lists established,
I can click into one.
And from here I can manually add sites
or import an existing site list.
I'm going to choose to manually add a site.
I'm going to paste in my address from before.
And I can determine where it opens.
You know, in most cases, this is going to be IE mode
to launch within Edge, just like I showed.
Here, an important concept to understand
is the neutral site and when to choose none,
and I'll return to this concept in just a moment.
Before I do that though, if you already have
an existing enterprise mode site list,
let me show you how to import one.
I'll choose import list, and you'll see
that this added a few more addresses to my list
and a few Opens in values.
Now this is where our neutral site
or none option is important.
For example, the site login.contoso.com is set
to open in none.
And this ensures that the browser or mode that it's
opened in is retained to prevent authentication failures.
From here I can select and edit any of these entries.
And I'm going to do one more thing
before I leave this page, I'm going to copy the site list ID
to my clipboard because I'm going to need that
in just a second.
And now if I navigate up a level, for this site list
or any changes I make later to be active,
I need to publish it.
So I'll hit Publish site list.
Then I'll keep the one as the version
and I can incrementally add to that
as I make future changes.
Then I'll hit publish.
So now with my Edge site list published
in the cloud, next I need my managed PCs to be able
to find it and use it.
And for that I'll open the link to configure
IE mode deployment guide, and next I'll apply
my completed site list to users and choose
Microsoft Intune then hit next.
I'll configure an IE mode
device configuration profile right from here.
I'm going to call it the Default Edge Policy.
Now since all of my managed devices
are using the newer Chromium based Edge browser
with integrated IE mode, I'm going to choose that option.
And then I'll select cloud site list to point to
the one that we just created.
Now, here's why I added the site list ID
to my clipboard just a moment ago.
So I'll go ahead and paste that in here.
And in assignments, I'll scope this one to all users.
Now I'll hit save and deploy the policy.
And here it links me directly
to the new configuration profile in Endpoint Manager.
And there it is.
Our policy is active and assigned.
Now back in Microsoft 365's admin center,
I can complete the steps.
So now as policy is applied and enforced
on my managed devices, each will have IE mode
enforced on the sites that I defined in the site list.
And finally, if you aren't sure
which of your sites need IE mode,
we have the Microsoft Edge setup guide
as part of the Microsoft 365 admin center
that you can use for enterprise site discovery
to identify sites that require IE mode that need to be added
to your site list.
To find it go to aka.ms/Edgeadvisor.
It's an authenticated link,
so you'll need to log in as an admin to use it.
The compatibility options that I showed you today
give you a smooth transition path
as you get ahead of the June 2022 Internet Explorer
end of support date.
Cloud site lists for managing IE compatibility at scale
and IE mode in Edge will get you to the modern
Microsoft Edge browser faster and without any compromises.
To learn more, check out aka.ms/CloudSiteList
and keep checking back to Microsoft Mechanics
for all the latest updates and thanks so much for watching.
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