Microsoft Edge browser default in the browser and adding bookmarks

[Lion55]

Hi All,

Does anybody know how to default the edge browser and also add bookmarks within Jamf Pro?

Thanks in advance

[pete_c]

To set as default, there are several tools available like utiutil, duti and swda - the last of which is still my go-to.
 https://github.com/RhetTbull/utitools
 https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps

To set bookmarks (called 'favorites' on Edge) you'll want to create and deploy a configuration profile using the keys and values as described in the Edge policy documentation: 
 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#managedfavorites

If you're new to configuration profiles, check out iMazing Profile Editor:
 https://imazing.com/profile-editor

Remember to quit and reopen Edge after deploying changes to the profile - even though as a Chromium browser, you should be able to open "edge://policy" and chose Reload, not every key will be respected this way. Save versions as you develop the profile so you can easily revert when something breaks. Don't ever delete a computer-level profile from Jamf without setting its scope back to None first (or, better yet, just don't ever delete any computer-level profiles, just file them away in an Archive category etc).

[czarmark]

You can have a policy run a script to set the default browser, for example

#!/bin/sh
# SetMicrosoftEdgeDefaultBrowser.sh 
# Script to check the currently logged in user and set Microsoft Edge to their default browser

# Find out who the currently logged in user is
CurrentUser=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name :/ && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' )

# Run open command as the currently logged in user to set Edge as the default browser

su -l $CurrentUser -c "open /Applications/Microsoft\ Edge.app/ --args --make-default-browser"

exit 0