I want to Importing IE favorites to Edge Chromium using script

Question

Hello All,

I want to Importing IE favorites to Edge Chromium using any script. I am aware of the manual process through Edge but we want to do this process automated / single click process because recently in our organization we set Edge chromium as default browser for all user but we are unable to migrate their favorites.

Please let us know if you have such script already available.

Thank you..!!!

Answer 1

Hi @Shreyas Kale

The easiest way to import IE favorites to Edge is to set this policy AutoImportAtFirstRun before Edge's first run. You can enable this policy and choose Automatically imports all supported datatypes and settings from Internet Explorer in the options.

If you're not running the Edge browser for the first time, things will be complicate because IE and Edge use different ways to manage data. IE stores the favorites as shortcut links in the computer but Edge stores them as json data in a file.

In this situation, you can refer to this article to export IE favorites using PowerShell script first, then refer to this article to edit the registry key using PowerShell script to import IE favorites data to Edge. The registry key you need to modify is ManagedFavorites under path SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge.

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Answer 2

There are issues with automatically importing using the policy, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/332079/group-policy-to-import-favorites-from-ie-to-edge.html.