Setting home page for Edge browser in Windows Mobile 10

Question

I'm locking down Windows Mobile 10 device and even though it proves to be a challenging task I'm almost there.

The only bit left is either setting Microsoft Edge to use desired URL as a home page or pinning a shortcut (tile) to that URL onto the screen. The later can be done, however, the shortcut is being removed on every reboot, so that's not the solution.

Windows Configuration Designer has an option to choose so called first run URL, but there is no option to choose home page URL.

Then there is an option to import your own XML lockdown file with custom settings, but unfortunately only a few settings defined in it are working or working as expected.

There's not enough documentation on this matter IMO, but I just tried to use CSPRunner string in the lockdown file that should set the home page for the Edge as described here

<CSPRunner>
    <SyncML xmlns="SYNCML:SYNCML1.2">
        <SyncBody>
            <Replace>
                <CmdID>1</CmdID>
                <Item>
                    <Target>
                        <LocURI>./Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Browser/HomePages</LocURI>
                    </Target>
                    <Meta>
                        <Format xmlns="syncml:metinf">chr</Format>
                    </Meta>
                    <Data>http://mycustomurl.com/</Data>
                </Item>
            </Replace>
            <Final/>
        </SyncBody>
    </SyncML>
</CSPRunner>

As you rightly guessed - it simply doesn't work. Overall, as I said already, some settings are being picked up from the lockdown file and some are not.

The OS version is 1607 so it should work.

Answer 1

I could not find a working way of setting the home page for Edge browser, so as an alternative I've created an app with a WebView and allowed it to be run in AssignedAccess.xml file.