Microsoft Edge - how to change default search engine via JAMF?

[Bernard_Huang]

Hi,

Our company is wanting to roll out Microsoft Edge to all our Mac fleet and make it the default browser. This is to keep in line with our company's upgrade to Windows 10 pcs.

Anyway, the default search engine in Edge is bing. We would like to change this to google so users are still using a familiar search engine. But I do not know go about setting this up remotely. And the other thing is changing default search engine manually is quite cumbersome, so writing up some instructions for end users to follow is not the way to go.

So anyone know anything how to go about it? Thanks in advance.

[andrew_nicholas · Accepted solution]

The Microsoft Edge Policies are 1:1 for the most part with regards to macOS and Windows, and you can just deploy changes with a config profile. Looks like you'll want the subsection Default Search Provider, and the key DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL.

[Bernard_Huang]

Thanks @andrew.nicholas . Will get this started :)

[deejerydoo]

With the search engine set to Google only, I have noticed that if you have the "Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar" set to the application recommended default of "Search box (Recommended)" then it still uses Bing as the search engine. The only way to not use Bing at all is to change this default to "Address bar".