



This isn’t about what browser is ‘best’, but some solutions were designed with only Internet Explorer in use. Many companies have certain websites they need to use that either require Internet Explorer, or work best in Internet Explorer. Microsoft Edge is undergoing a big change with the underlying platform being migrated to Chromium – things will change with that (along with a new Internet Explorer mode) but that doesn’t help right now. The rest of this article still applies and is needed to make this work. The New Edge is out, and there’s 1 extra Group Policy to do: Enable ‘Configure Internet Explorer integration’ and set it to ‘Internet Explorer Mode’ to open inside Edge as IE, or ‘Internet Explorer 11’ to open sites seperately in IE11. To access this via the Microsoft 365 admin center: Settings – Microsoft 365 admin center Check it out using edge://compat/SiteListManager and here’s the official documentation: Note that there’s another way to now do this, using Enterprise Site List Manager which is an in-browser version of the standalone Enterprise Mode Site List Manager tool. AKA How to force certain websites when opened in Edge, to instead open in Internet Explorer.
