This is the second time I’ve had this problem, luckily it took me so long to figure it out the first time, this time I was fine. On my mac I use Edge as the browser for all the work applications. But when it had a notification for me like this.
Despite my best efforts, it was not obvious what it was telling me.
Solution: Microsoft Edge Notification
Another clue is the ‘blue’ circle around the download logo, Edge is informing me that there is a download problem, in my case a download has failed, I simply need to delete the partially downloaded file and attempt to download again.
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I had to update the ‘self-signed‘ certificate on my VMware vCenter today, but when I went to browse to it, I got this.
Net:: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
Well yes of course I don’t trust the CA that issued this certificate it’s a self-signed certificate! So HOW DO I TRUST IT?
Solution : Bypass Blocked Certificate
The answer I didn’t believe when I read it – because it sounds like an IT Department prank, but it works. Make sure you have clicked into the page somewhere, so it is the window that’s in focus and, type the following on your keyboard.
thisisunsafe
The website will open.
Note: If you are in an inPrivate browsing window, it will only persist in that session, but for normal browsing the site will be added to the “allowed” website list.
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Controlling Microsoft Edge with Group Policy is pretty straight forward, you just need to ensure the msedge.admx and msedgeupdates.admx files have been added to your policy definitions store in the right folders. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see the following article.
Not sure why, but I spend a large amount of time working on certificate problems, being asked questions about certificates, or fixing certificate problems. For certs that are web presented, back in the days of IE I could simply do this.
For those sniggering at my IE use – I typically work on client’s sites where I can’t go round installing browsers that are not terrible! Now that was all fine, now we (finally have got rid of IE (mostly)). How do I do the same with Edge?
I was losing my temper trying to fix my test Exchange server certificates today. Because I could not find the same information with Microsoft Edge. As it transpires the information is there, Microsoft have just done their best to hide it!
Edge View Certificate Information: Solution
You need to click the ‘padlock’ > Connection is Secure > Then click the small Icon at the top > the certificate details are then displayed on two tabs, the information is not as well formatted as it used to be, but it’s all there.
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Outlook URL: I first noticed this a few weeks ago, When copying and pasting a URL into an email it shortens the URL and gives it the pages title. At first i thought my firms Devs had changed the way our CRM works, but then I noticed it happening with SharePoint URLs as well, this is what I mean;
I don’t have a problem with it, in fact I much prefer it! However I got an email this morning from someone asking how to turn it off. As it transpires it has nothing to do with Outlook at all. It’s a feature of the Microsoft Edge browser.
Outlook URL Shortening is Really Microsoft Edge
Within Microsoft Edge > Preferences > Share, Copy, and Paste > Select your preference, if you want to disable this feature select ‘Plain Text’
And now the actual URL will be posted.
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This question appeared in my inbox today, ‘Edge’ has a nasty habit of assigning itself the default PDF reader, particularly after a round of updates!
Solution
First I went and had a look at my old Experts Exchange Buddy Ramesh’s site (www.winhelponline.com) who had done the heavy lifting and worked out the registry keys;
Note: I’m only concerned with .pdf files, if you want to block .htm and/or .html files, then just repeat this process using the the REG_SZ values from above;
The solution for a single machine is to create the following two registry string values;
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\AppXd4nrz8ff68srnhf9t5a8sbjyar1cr723
REG_SZ Name = NoOpenWith
REG_SZ Name = NoStaticDefaultVerb
Then set the correct file associate like so;
Which is fine for one machine but what if you have hundreds of complaining users! Then we need to employ some Group Policies. But there’s a few hoops to jump though first. On your client machine, the one you have just tested the procedure on, export your file association to an XML file. Open an administrative command window, and execute the following command;
If you take a look at the a file you will see, (providing you did it right) the Adobe/PDF file association.
Now copy the file to a location all your domain clients can see, in my case I’m going to drop it in the sysvol directory.
Crete a new Group Policy linked to the computers you want to apply the change to, then edit it.
Navigate to;
[box]Computer Configuration > Policies> Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer > Set default associations configuration file >Enable > Put in the path to your .XML file[/box]
Save and exit the, group policy, now create a SECOND POLICY linked to your USERS.
Navigate to;
[box]User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry > New > Registry Item[/box]
Note: Ive already created the registry values on the machine I’m configuring the policy on, (you can export the key and import it on a domain controller to make things easier for you). Close and exit the policy editor.
I’ve seen one person use Edge as their browser in a business environment. I’ve got nothing against it, (I use a macOSX anyway). But I had a client that asked me how to make sure his machines are set to NOT use Edge as the default browser.
I’m going to use Internet Explorer instead, but you can do the same with Chrome or Firefox depending on your browser of choice.
Solution
What I’m going to do, is set the browser on one machine, then export the default associations for that machine to an XML file, then via GPO Im going to get my Windows 10 machines to use that XML file, (by filtering the GPO so it only applies to Windows 10).
