Unable to get bookmarks/favorites to show up in Edge kiosk

Question

I am trying to setup a few kiosk computers to just run a web browser and have used the single app, full screen Edge setting in Intune and it works wonderfully but I can't seem to get it to display any bookmarks/favorites for certain sites that we want users to have access to.

I've come across this article which seemed promising:
https://www.inthecloud247.com/controlling-managed-favorites-for-edge-with-microsoft-intune/

I setup the configuration profile as outlined in the article but it still does not seem to be working. Has anyone else run into this?

Answer 1

@Jeremy Bergener Thanks for posting in our Q&A.

For this issue, I have done the test in my lab. I deployed a kiosk profile that set the Edge browser as a single app to my windows 10 device. Then I deployed an Administrative template profile to configure bookmarks and it works. Here are some configurations and the test result.
Configure favorites:

[  
  {  
    "toplevel_name": "Edge favorites"  
  },   
  {  
    "url": "microsoft.com",   
    "name": "Microsoft"  
  }  
]  

In my test, the bookmark doesn't show in the first page and it shows in the new page.

So, to clarify this issue, we appreciate your help to collect some information:
1.Please check if the profile that configure the Edge bookmarks is deployed successfully.

2.Please check if the bookmark shows in the new page.

Hope the above information will help.

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Answer 2

@Lu Dai-MSFT Sorry to ressurect this thread, but it's the only thread dealing with this issue.

I have all of the above working just fine with policies in intune/endpoint that shows the favorites bar and manages my favorites.
BUT: I would prefer that the always present "Favorites button" worked in Single App "Kiosk mode -> Public Browsing"

That button is blocked by Kiosk mode and has no value, so I have to enable the Favorites bar to show the managed favorites.
I would rather have the favorites bar screen area used for the website, and use the button for showing favorites. I have already made a policy that prevents users from managing favorites.

Microsofts own Kiosk feature sheet shows favorites should be working, but it seems they have forgotten to allow access to edge://favorites in Public Browsing mode. (The specs are inconsistent).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-configure-kiosk-mode

Any way to have this "feature" corrected?

-Tue