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- Welcome to Microsoft Mechanics.
Coming up, I'm going to give you a hands-on tour
of your options to deploy Microsoft Edge
to hundreds or thousands of devices at scale.
We're going to explain the Edge package options
for automated installation,
how you can deploy Edge to Windows PCs using
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager,
and ensure that all of your managed devices,
including your phones and Macs,
can also be provisioned with Edge.
The all-new Microsoft Edge is based on
Chromium and compatible with both modern web standards,
as well as your existing browser-based apps,
now through a built-in IE Mode that allows you
to browse Internet Explorer-dependent applications and sites
that you have without leaving the context of Edge.
Now as you would expect, Edge also brings
enterprise-ready security, privacy
and manageability controls making it the best browser
for business across PC, Mac and mobile devices.
And over the next few minutes, we're going to take a look
at your deployment options for Microsoft Edge.
First, Microsoft Edge offers downloadable packages
in a few formats and there are paths that are built-in
to Configuration Manager and Intune,
so you won't need to navigate to,
download and import packages.
That said, if you're using other tools,
I'm going to explain your package options.
Now, the most common package by far available on the web
takes you to Microsoft.com/edge, as you see here,
where you can download MicrosoftEdgeSetup.exe.
This is a boot strapper for end users to self-install
either as local administrators or standard users.
This package actually determines the best architecture
and language configuration automatically,
but for a large-scale deployment
it's not the recommended package.
So the Windows Installer, MSI-based packages
can be found at aka.ms/edgeenterprise.
Now, here you can get installers for Stable,
Beta, and Dev channels and you'll also use
these installation packages with your preferred
software distribution tools and methods,
but we've made things even easier if you're using
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager or Intune.
And I'm going to show you the deployment steps
for those in a moment.
But before I do that, it's worth noting that both Stable
and Beta channels are supported by Microsoft.
The Stable Channel is intended for broad deployment
in your organization, and it's the channel
that most users should be on.
New features will ship about every six weeks,
while security and quality updates will ship as needed.
The Beta Channel is also intended for production deployment
in your organization but to a smaller representative
sample of users.
The Beta Channel's a great way to validate
new features and updates before they hit the Stable Channel.
Features and updates follow the same schedule
as the Stable Channel.
Now, to learn more about the Edge Channels,
go to aka.ms/EdgeChannels.
Now, let's get back to Microsoft Endpoint Manager
and the steps for deploying Edge.
First, in Configuration Manager 1910 and newer,
Microsoft Edge has an integrated package
creation and deployment flow to fetch everything it needs
as part of the deployment process so you won't need
to manually import MSI packages.
There's a new node that you can see on the left here
called Microsoft Edge Management.
We'll click Create Microsoft Edge Application.
So to get started, we have to just give it a name.
So in my case, I'm just going to call it Edge.
Then I have to browse to a location of a folder
that's empty so I'm going to use my server
and go to the Edge 2005 folder.
Now, here I can select the channel that I want.
You see Stable Dev and Beta and I can select
whether or not I want the latest or a specific version
and I can allow Edge to automatically update
with this check box that was made available
as of 2002 Configuration Manager.
I can target the application now to specific machines
but I'll go ahead and click Next and then I'm done.
Now basically, what that's going to do in the background
is download all of the package components for Edge
and it will be available for you
to assign to machines and you're done.
If you've chosen to manage Edge updates, it will also work
like anything else that publishes updates via WSUS.
Just make sure that you've subscribed to those updates
so you can be informed of when those updates are available.
Now, you saw the dashboard earlier but I want to point out
that this is where you can track Microsoft Edge KPIs,
things like installation metrics, versions, usage
and also where it's the default browser.
And so those are the top considerations and capabilities
for using Configuration Manager and where most people
will deploy and manage for Windows.
But I'm going to switch gears and move on to deployment
via Intune for both Windows and non-Windows platforms.
So, Microsoft Edge in Intune is also fully integrated,
so you won't need to upload
installation packages here either.
So we'll start with Windows.
So in the All apps blade, click on Add.
And here you would select Windows 10
and then go through the standard process.
But in my case, I'm actually going to
select macOS as a package.
So go ahead and click that and click Select.
Then I get the App information pane that we're all used to.
We're going to go ahead and click Next
and then see the Apps settings.
And now in there, I can also select
the channel that I want to deploy.
I'm going stick with Stable and click Next
and I can add Scope tags if I want to.
And here, if I want to assign the different devices
I want to deploy to, I can do that.
And when I'm done, I click Create
and the packet is ready for me to deploy.
Next, let's take a look at the process
for Microsoft Edge on mobile apps.
It's consistent with the process for adding apps
from Apple's App Store as well as Google Play for Android.
I'm going to show you, in this case as an example,
the process for iOS.
So again in the All Apps blade,
we're going to go ahead and click iOS.
When I do that, I'll click Add and I'll click
iOS store app and Select.
Now go ahead and search the App Store for the app.
So I'll search for Microsoft Edge
and here we can see the Microsoft Edge app there,
I'll select that.
Again, I see App information and all the different fields,
the different versions for iOS it's compatible with.
I'll click Next.
I can click on Scope tags and add those here.
And I can even assign the different phone devices
I want to deploy to and then I'll see
all of the properties here and click Create.
And now after some time, those will soon
start to appear on your mobile devices
if you've targeted some of those for deployment.
So that's a quick review of your options to get
Microsoft Edge on your managed PCs, Macs and mobile devices.
Of course, that only covers the app deployment process
so keep checking back as we cover the management
and policy considerations for Microsoft Edge
as well as how to configure IE Mode for Windows.
Now, you can check out our full playlist for Microsoft Edge
and Microsoft Search at aka.ms/EdgeforIT.
Thanks for watching.
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