Policy
Configure address bar editing
Microsoft Edge
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows7
If you enable or don't configure this policy, users can change the URL in the address bar. If you disable this policy, it prevents users from changing the URL in the address bar. Note: This policy doesn't prevent the browser from navigating to any URL. Users can still navigate to any URL using the search option in the default New Tab Page, or using any link that leads to a web search engine. To ensure that users can only go to sites you expect, consider configuring the following policies in addition to this policy: - 'NewTabPageLocation' (Configure the new tab page URL) - 'HomepageLocation' (Configure the home page URL) - 'HomepageIsNewTabPage' (Set the new tab page as the home page) - 'URLBlocklist' (Block access to a list of URLs) and 'URLAllowlist' (Define a list of allowed URLs) to scope the pages that browser can navigate to.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge Value name AddressBarEditingEnabled | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 HKCU 1 | HKLM 0 HKCU 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.