Downloading up to date ADMX and ADML Files

Hi Phil Lively,

You can obtain the policy templates directly from the official Microsoft Edge for Business website. When you select your channel, build, and platform on the site, click the link to get the policy files rather than downloading the browser installer itself. This downloads a cabinet file containing a compressed archive with all the necessary administrative templates. Once you extract the archive, look inside the Windows directory to find the msedge.admx and msedgeupdate.admx files.

To make these policies available on a standalone machine, copy the ADMX files directly to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions. If you are managing a domain environment, you should instead place them in your domain controller's SYSVOL Central Store, which is typically located at \yourdomain\SYSVOL\yourdomain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions. Next, navigate to the language-specific folder in your extracted archive, such as the en-US folder for US English, to find the corresponding ADML files. Copy these ADML files into the matching language subfolder within your PolicyDefinitions directory so that the Group Policy Management Editor can properly display the policy names and descriptions.

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VP

The msedge.admx / msedge.adml and msedgeupdate.admx / msedgeupdate.adml Group Policy templates are provided as part of the Microsoft Edge enterprise policy templates package.

To download the up-to-date files:

1. Go to the Microsoft Edge Enterprise landing page: https://aka.ms/EdgeEnterprise
2. Download the Microsoft Edge policy templates file.
3. Extract the downloaded package.
4. In the extracted content, navigate to MicrosoftEdgePolicyTemplates → windows → admx to find msedge.admx and msedgeupdate.admx.
5. In the corresponding language folder (for example, en-US) under admx, locate the matching msedge.adml and msedgeupdate.adml files.
6. Copy the ADMX files to the appropriate PolicyDefinitions folder (local or Central Store) and the ADML files to the matching language subfolder.

References:

• Configure Microsoft Edge policy settings on Windows devices