The Group Policy in the doco to set this XML is called Set a default associations configuration file – and all it’s doing is populating a registry key.

PDF files to Microsoft Edge, remove that line from the code. PDF is included, so if you’d rather not default. I worked out how to do this based on current default browser and using GPO still, so here’s what I did:Īs per the doco above, create an XML file that sets Microsoft Edge as the default application for certain protocols: It doesn’t stop users from changing the associations, but it does reset the associations each time the user logs in – so not ideal if you want to set a default, but also allow flexibility. At the same time, I didn’t want to change Google Chrome default browser users as they’d already made that choice, and didn’t want to shove a similar Chromium browser down their throats.Īs per Microsoft’s doco you can use an XML file with default associations, and use Group Policy to point to that XML. Previously, we’d had business requirements to set IE as the default – but now that’s no longer required, I wanted to flip their default. I had a scenario where I wanted Internet Explorer users to be changed to Microsoft Edge. The New Microsoft Edge browser is great and everyone should use it :) Especially if you’re still on Internet Explorer, you can make Edge use IE mode for the sites you have that still require IE, without having to actually use IE.

Internet explorer defaulting to edge