Control Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar Policy using Intune
Let’s discuss Control Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar Policy using Intune. Today we are going to explore a new topic: Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar. Microsoft Intune policy allows you to configure these settings for your organization.
As you know that, trending suggestions in Microsoft Bing, are list of popular or currently newsworthy search topics that are displayed to users. It is created according to the search of large number of people at that moment. On the bing home page you can see the trending suggestion.
By enabling this policy, Microsoft Bing trending suggestions will appear in the address bar suggestion dropdown when users click the address bar while on a New Tab Page. If your organization interested to quickly access new trending topics you can enable this policy.
This Policy is very benefical for users ,admins and organization. Admins have full control over Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar Policy. Your organizations, flexibility, standaization can be controlled with this policy.
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Control Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar Policy using Intune
Microsoft Bing create Trending Suggestions by its Algorithm. The algorithm takes into account various factors, including the number of searches for a topic, the recent increase in that search volume, and other relevance signals like location, language, and search history.
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Configure Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar
With Microsoft Admin center, you can easily configure the policy for different OS. Open the Microsoft Intune Admin center. Go to Devices > Configuration > +Create >+ New Policy.
Choosing Profile and Platform
After clicking on the New Policy, you will get a new window to select the profile and platform. This step cannot be skipped. Here, I selected Windows 10 and later as the Platform and Settings catalog as the profile type. Then click on the Create button.
Basic Tab
Before configuring the policy, you should fill in the basic details like name and Description. Name is a mandatory field, and description is optional. After adding this, click on the Next button.
Configure the Settings
Using the +Add settings hyperlink, you can access Settings Picker to choose the Settings. From the Settings Picker I choose Microsoft Edge category and select Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar. Then you can close the Settings Picker.
Disable Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar
If you want to minimalist interface, disabling the policy removes a list of suggestions from the address bar dropdown. So you can avoid uninterested topics on your address bar. This is the default value of this policy and if you want continue, click on the Next button.
Enable Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar
By enabling this policy you can kow the latest and trending news very soon. The list of trending suggestions is constantly updated to reflect real-time events, so what’s trending in the morning might be different in the afternoon. Here I would like to Enable the policy. Click on the Next button.
Scope Tags for Policy
With scope tags, you create a restriction to the visibility of the Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar. It helps to organise resources as well. Here, I would like to skip this section, because it is not mandatory. Click on the Next button.
Assigning Specific Groups
To assign the policy to specific groups, you can use the Assignment Tab. Here I click, +Add groups option under Included groups. I choose a group from the list of groups and click on the Select button. Again, I click on the Select button to continue.
Review + Create Tab
Review + Create Tab helps you recheck all the details of the policy you entered on all the tabs. After verifying all the details, click on the Create Button. After creating the policy, you will get a success message.
Monitoring Status
After the policy is created, you can check the staus of the policy on Intune Portal. This status is shows the policy succceded or not. Open the Intune Portal. Go to Devices > Configuration > Search for the Policy. Here, the policy shows as successful.
Event Viewer Details
Event Viewer helps you check the client side and verify the policy status. Open the Client device and open the Event Viewer. Go to Start > Event Viewer. Navigate to Logs: In the left pane, go to Application and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider > Admin.
- Filter for Event ID 814: This will help you quickly find the relevant logs.
| Event ID Details |
|---|
| MDM PolicyManager: Set policy string, Policy: (AddressBarTrendingSuggestEnabled), Area: (microsoft_edgev135~Policy~microsoft_edge), EnrollmentID requesting merge: (EB427D85-802F- 46D9-A3E2-D5B414587F63), Current User: (Device), String: (), Enrollment Type: (0x6), Scope: (0x0). |
Removing the Assigned Group from these Settings
If you want to remove the Assigned group from the policy, it is possible from the Intune Portal. To do this, open the Policy on Intune Portal and edit the Assignments tab and the Remove Policy.
To get more detailed information, you can refer to our previous post – Learn How to Delete or Remove App Assignment from Intune using by Step-by-Step Guide.
How to Delete Microsoft Bing Trending Suggestions in the Address Bar
You can easily delete the Policy from the Intune Portal. From the Configuration section, you can delete the policy. It will completely remove it from the client devices.
For detailed information, you can refer to our previous post – How to Delete Allow Clipboard History Policy in Intune Step by Step Guide.
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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years from 2015 onwards. He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.
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