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Hello there, I’m the IT Manager at a 150 person company. We enjoy using Guru due to the specialty in information retrieval. One of the core components of this is the browser extension. Recently, I tried to deploy the browser extension it to all computers using our MDMs: Intune and Kandji.

Unfortunately, Edge not only didn’t deploy the Chrome-extension for Guru, it actually blocks it. Therefore, when the Chrome extension is “deployed” to Edge, users can’t install it themselves at all (see photo). I’ve been told by Guru Support that there is no other way to deploy the extension other than the Chrome one, so currently our Edge users are blocked from using this feature of Guru. I’ve been told by Intune, Edge, and Kandji support that Guru needs to publish this extension in the Edge store.

 

Please add Guru to the Edge Add-In store to allow IT admins to deploy the Edge extension to the Edge browser. Thank you.

Lauren, IT Manager

Hi Lauren,

This is possible, but you will need to either enable extensions to be installed from another store via a user configuration set up via MDM OR add the Guru extension ID + google URL to an allowed list of extensions.

This reddit thread has examples of how to do it using Intune. I’m sure this can be done in other MDM tools because a lot of this is just setting up the appropriate policies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Intune/comments/itajou/deploy_chrome_extensions_to_edge_browser/

Hi Mitch, 

Thanks so much for replying! I’ll try that additional Intune config now for our Windows machines. 

What about for Apple MDMs, like Kandji? Are there any tips or tricks so it deploys instead of blocks users? That’s where I got that blocked photo from-- Edge on Mac. Can you give an example of how, “add the Guru extension ID + google URL” would look like for the Guru extension?

Best,
Lauren

Here’s what ChatGPT gave me for this, I think the important bits are the “allow from other stores” property.

Also make sure that there isn’t already a “block” for other extensions, because the error that you are receiving looks like Edge is blocking it and that might be due to another policy issue. Extensions can be blocked with Policy updates per Microsoft

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-browser-policies/extensionsettings

Hi Mitch,

Thanks again for writing back, but that’s not exactly the issue. I just talked to some other Mac admins and what I needed was the Chrome update page as a part of the ID: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-browser-policies/extensioninstallforcelist

Using this for deployment just worked for me; this will help anyone following along!

<string>mklbhckkgddhlcdagmobdmnadpjokkkn;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx</string>

Sounds great, I will close this out now!

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