
The sidebar app will be enabled silently without needing any user interaction.

Use the following steps as a guide to force enable a sidebar app. Use the ExtensionInstallForceList policy to enable specific sidebar apps that can’t be disabled by users in your organization. Disabling the HubsSidebarEnabled policy will block all sidebar apps by default. To block all sidebar apps, refer to Allow or block the sidebar in group policy.When adding multiple ID’s use a separate row for each ID.You can use these values to configure the policy. The Sidebar Internals JSON file includes a manifest for all sidebar apps, including an extension_id parameter for each app.You can find Extension IDs for sidebar apps by going edge://sidebar-internals.Enter the extension ID of the sidebar app that you want to block.Open the group policy management editor and go to Administrative Templates > Microsoft Edge > Extensions and then select Control which extensions cannot be installed.Use the following steps as a guide to block a sidebar app. Policy NameĬontrol which extensions cannot be installedĬontrol which extensions are installed silentlyĭuring the rollout of Microsoft Edge 107, the following sidebar app experiences are turned on by default for Enterprise customers: Search, Discover,, and Outlook.Īdmins can use the following guidance to reconfigure the sidebar as desired for their organization. The following policies can be applied to the sidebar and the individual apps referenced by the sidebar.

Use group policies to manage the sidebarĪdmins have several policy options for deploying and managing the sidebar in their organization. With the sidebar in Microsoft Edge, Enterprise users can access the productivity tools they need while staying in their workflow. As the transition from juggling apps to switching tabs entrenches web-based tools in our workflows, the risks to productivity mount. Introduction to the sidebarįor a growing number of people, the browser has become the place where work happens. This article describes the sidebar in Microsoft Edge and provides information about the procedures that admins can use to manage this feature in their organization.
