EDGE-00-000012 - Search suggestions must be disabled.

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Information

Enables web search suggestions in the Microsoft Edge Address Bar and Auto-Suggest List, and prevents users from changing this policy.

If this policy is enabled, web search suggestions are used.

If this policy is disabled, web search suggestions are never used; however, local history and local favorites suggestions still appear. If this policy is disabled, neither the typed characters nor the URLs visited will be included in telemetry to Microsoft.

If this policy is not set, search suggestions are enabled but the user can change that.

Solution

Set the policy value for 'Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Enable search suggestions' to 'Disabled'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Edge_V1R6_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-235729r766848_rule, STIG-ID|EDGE-00-000012, Vuln-ID|V-235729

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: a51f0ea05df633230452064e28c1b3261be22a5424a64140dfbabb9df6f03bf5