Grouup policy enabling for Microsoft edge to make open with explorer option available

Question

I am trying to enable open with explorer view option for SharePoint library in edge browser , so I got stuck at enabling group policy for edge.
Please provide me steps to enable group policy and further steps to implemented on SharePoint . I am using following MS document
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/sharepoint-view-in-edge

Please help.

Answer 1

Hi @sns ,

Well, you can refer to these steps as following, and check if this can help:

1. Navigating to edge://version in Microsoft Edge, and view the Microsoft Edge property, like this:
   
2. Navigating to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download in Microsoft Edge, and download the Microsoft Edge policy template package(based on the version of Microsoft Edge) , like this:

3. Installing the Edge policy template, if your machine in AD domain, please refer to this doc: Add the administrative template to Active Directory.
   If it just an individual computer, please refer to this doc: Add the administrative template to an individual computer.
4. Open Group Policy Editor via windows search, something like this:

5. Find the policy, under this path: Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/, and policy name is Configure the View in File Explorer feature for SharePoint pages in Microsoft Edge. Like this:
6. Configure the policy and apply.

Regards,
Xudong Peng

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Answer 2

HI XuDogPeng,

I followed those steps and I kept msedge.admx file in correct path only, not sure why it is giving error. Please suggest further. Thanks
PFA