Redirect incompatible sites from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge

This setting lets you specify whether Internet Explorer will redirect navigations to sites that require a modern browser to Microsoft Edge.

If you don't configure this policy or set it to 'Sitelist', beginning in M87, Internet Explorer will redirect sites that require a modern browser to Microsoft Edge.

When a site is redirected from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge, the Internet Explorer tab that began loading that site is closed if it had no prior content. Otherwise, it is navigated to a Microsoft help page explaining why the site was redirected to Microsoft Edge.

When Microsoft Edge is launched to load a site from IE, an information bar is shown to the user explaining that the site works best in a modern browser.

If you set this policy to 'Disable', Internet Explorer will not redirect any traffic to Microsoft Edge.

For more information about this policy see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2141715

Policy options mapping:

* Disable (0) = Disable

* Sitelist (1) = Redirect sites based on the incompatible sites sitelist

Use the preceding information when configuring this policy.

Supported on: Microsoft Edge version 87, Windows 7 or later

Redirect incompatible sites from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge


  1. Disable
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
    Value NameRedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerRedirectMode
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value0
  2. Redirect sites based on the incompatible sites sitelist
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
    Value NameRedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerRedirectMode
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value1


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