Microsoft Edge Version 110.0.1587.63 crashing on web sites that use Username and Password Authentication - had to downgrade back to Version 108.0.1462.95

Question

This is somewhat a CRITICAL situation. We have been moving through the various Microsoft Edge versions for quite some time now without issues. However, with Microsoft Edge Version 110.0.1587.63 I have experienced many "drops" from both internal on-site and off-site websites that require User-Name and Password authentication. We do have the "MicrosoftRootStoreEnabled" GPO setting set to DISABLED ( 0x00000000 ) in our GPO setup. I have not tried enabling it as we have many local Printers with self-signed certificates in our systems. Currently, Version 110 should use BOTH Browser and System certificate store, but we decided to start with the Browser store disabled for now. The problem shows itself as a "crash" of the website session after a short period, requiring a new login that many times works OK. I started noticing this after a normal Microsoft Edge update from Version 108 to the March 9, 2023 available Version 110. The ADMX/ADML GPO files are in place as usual and two other Version 110 GPO's are also set to DISABLED: AutofillMembershipsEnabled and SearchFiltersEnabled (Version 109), as well as, LinkAccountEnabled and TextPreditionEnabled settings.

We need to have this situation FIXED ASAP or we need knowledge of Edge Flags settings or other GPO's we haven't configured, that may reliably resolve this issue. We cannot change the websites as many are on the Internet and not on our Intranet. Everyone's productive help is greatly appreciated. Both Windows 10 Pro X86 and X64 Feature 22H2 systems are experiencing this issue.

ChevITGuy

Answer 1

ANSWER: The "Enable the network service sandbox" GPO was set to NOT Configured and all testing on three Windows 10 Pro X64 PC's at Feature 22H2 on Intel Core2Duo E8400 processors with at least 4 GBytes of Main Memory was SUCCESSFUL. No other GPO's were changed. At least 3 company VPN logins were attempted with NO "session expired" events occurring on each PC. Next, one of the IT department PC's at Windows 10 Pro X86 on Feature 22H2 with Intel Core2Duo E8500 processor (4 GBytes of RAM) was updated to Version 110.0.1587.69 with the same ADMX/ADML files for that version. Again the "Enable the network service sandbox" GPO was set to NOT Configured and gpupdate was run. Testing an internal IT Ticketing website and the payroll/timecard website were SUCCESSFUL with NO session dropping observed. This GPO is not normally enabled on the Domain systems, so it is possible that updating to Version 110 would have been uneventful!

End of Story. Thanks to to ShiJie Li for stimulating the GPO search. Luckily it was the FIRST one I picked that resolved the issue for now. The Microsoft Edge team needs to evaluate if this "Enable the network service sandbox" GPO setting has a problem or not.

ChevITGuy