Favourites folder for Edge

[Danny11616]

Hi,

 

We have recently deployed and moved all of our data to SharePoint to help with the operations of the school and our commitment to moving infrastructure to the cloud. I was wondering if there is a possibility that I can deploy a favourites folder that can have all the links to websites that staff need so that they can easily navigate to websites when they open new tabs etc.

 

When I worked for a Google school this was as simple of going into the Google admin centre and making the changes in there and it was as simple as that but I am unsure if this is easily done in a Microsoft environment. I have done some research and found out that this is done through GPO but after looking into it further it requires a lot more work than I thought which looks like a complete headache.

 

Has anyone else been able to do this in their Microsoft environment?

[DalekSec]

You can do this via Intune:

 

https://www.anoopcnair.com/microsoft-edge-favorites-using-intune-profile/

[Danny11616]

Thank you for this @DalekSec we are not quite there yet with Intune deployment as this is the next project on the list to tackle but this will definitely come in handy.

[psydii]

We have a Sharepoint site that acts as a root/anchor/hub for all other sites that are not departmental sites. Its content is managed by the Head Teacher's PA. We use GPO to set it as the default page for Staff.

[thimon]

Hi Danny. We were in your exact situation, I’ve got setup exactly what you’re after, two seperate policies for staff and students so they get different managed bookmark folders in Edge, applied via GPO. I’ll post the details / screenshots tomorrow when I’m back in work.

[thimon]

Hi @Danny11616 Please see below what I have setup. I've cut out a lot of the text from the script to simplify it, just add more sites that you wish.

 

[{"toplevel_name": "School Bookmarks"},{"children": [{"name": "Adobe Firefly - AI Image Creation", "url": "https://firefly.adobe.com/"},{"name": "ChatGPT", "url": "https://chat.openai.com/auth/login?next=%2F"},{"name": "Dalle-E 2 - AI Image Creation", "url": "https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2"},{"name": "Midjourney - AI Image Creation", "url": "https://midjourney.com/showcase/top/"},{"name": "TurnItIn - Plagarism / AI detection tool", "url": "https://www.turnitinuk.com/login_page.asp"},{"name": "ZeroGPT - AI detection tool", "url": "https://www.zerogpt.com/"}], "name": "AI"},{"name": "Adobe Acrobat Extension", "url": "https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/elhekieabhbkpmcefcoobjddigjcaadp"},{"name": "Canva", "url": "www.canva.com"},{"name": "Kerboodle", "url": "https://www.kerboodle.com/users/login"},{"name": "MFA", "url": "https://mysignins.microsoft.com/security-info"},{"name": "Office 365", "url": "https://www.office.com/apps?auth=2"},]

 

 

[Danny11616]

Thank you @thimon this has been really helpful.