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Enable Safe Browsing in Google Chrome using Intune in Windows Devices

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  While working with Google Chrome admx policies, a feature called  Safe Browsing  caught my attention. After doing some research I decided to blog my thoughts on it and how it can be enabled using Intune. What is Safe Browsing? Safe Browsing helps in protecting against phishing, social engineering, malware, unwanted software, malicious ads, intrusive ads, and abusive websites or extensions. Chrome contacts Google's servers periodically or real-time (depending on the protection level) to download the most recent Safe Browsing list of unsafe sites and is stored locally in the system. Chrome checks the URL of each site visited or file that is downloaded against this local list.  When Chrome starts, and on each update of the Safe Browsing list, Chrome scans extensions installed in the browser against the Safe Browsing list. If an extension on the list is found, Chrome will disable the extension. Different levels of Protection are -  Enhanced protection (Recomm...

Intune - Microsoft Edge browser settings & extensions

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In this blog I will cover some of the settings of Microsoft Edge browser configured using built in administrative templates in Intune.  Using Intune to manage and enforce policies is equivalent to using Active Directory Group Policy or configuring local Group Policy Object (GPO) settings on user devices. For a complete list of Microsoft edge policies, you can check the link here . Let’s begin 1.      Sign-in to the  https://endpoint.microsoft.com 2.      Browse to Devices – Windows – Configuration profiles 3.      Click Create Profile 4.      Choose Windows 10 and later as Platform 5.      Choose Administrative Templates as Profile type 6.      Click Create 7.      Give a name 8.      Use the search field ("Search to filter items ...") to find a spec...