Edge Auto Sign in Broken / Cloud Filter

[DWilson1997]

Hi all,

 

We've recently noticed an issue during our filtering checks where Microsoft Edge is no longer automatically signing users in on first launch. As a result, our Smoothwall Cloud Filter is unable to identify the user and records their activity as "unknown-user."

 

All relevant Edge policies are configured via Intune and appear to be applying correctly on the client.

 

"BrowserSignin": 1,
"ImplicitSignInEnabled": true,
"ForceSync": true,
"NonRemovableProfileEnabled": true,
"ProactiveAuthWorkflowEnabled": true,
"HideFirstRunExperience": true

 

What we're seeing is that when a user signs into a device for the first time and opens Edge, the browser launches with "Profile 1" and displays their account ready to be signed in, but it doesn't complete the sign-in automatically. If the user closes Edge and reopens it, the browser immediately signs them in without any issues.

 

Has anyone else experienced this recently, or found a cause or fix for it?

[itskdog]

I recently tried switching BrowserSignIn to 2 (Force) rather than 1 (Enabled) to see if that would help.

[Joeloman]

Try installing Filter Backstop:
https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/25469690012956-Filter-Backstop-overview#h_01KH8H4P28M2VBFYZBSGQ8RPCV

 

It detects the logged-in user and reports this information to the Smoothwall extension in the browser.