New Edge, Credge, Edgium or Credgium – no matter what you call it, the Edge browser based on chromium was released on Jan 15th 2020.

To deploy the new versions using SCCM 1910 (or above)

• Add “Microsoft Edge” a product that is sync’ed in your software update point component properties
  • Somewhat confusingly, the product is under the sub-category of “Windows”

• Then navigate to Software Library > Microsoft Edge Management | All Microsoft edge update

 

• Right click and select “:synchronise software updates”
• You can follow the progress of this process by checking wsyncmgr.log – the same log as you use to follow all software update sync’s
• At this stage – you can wait for anywhere from 5 minutes (for an environment that has sync’ed relatively recently) to hours (if this is your first sync)
• Once completed, you can refresh by hitting F5 – and you should see some content update for Edge in the right-hand pane
• Now right-click on the top node “Microsoft Edge Management” (yes, this is not intuitive) and select “Create Microsoft Edge application”
  • Select and name and a source directory to be used
  • Select a channel, or specific version that you wish to deploy. If you’re not sure here – use “stable” and “latest”
  • Deploy to a collection, select your DP’s etc – all pretty standard stuff here
• You’ll notice that an application is created for you under the “applications” node – this is different to other software updates which are created as Software Update groups (SUG’s)
• Personally, i’d prefer to see it all managed under the one node – however, its still a good feature overall – as simplifies deployment of edge greatly – but still allows the admin to go and edit properties of the deployment if… for the invetiable situation of where the Microsoft pre-defined install doesn’t meet your orgs needs

 

Once completed, as per any deployment – monitor your deployment via the “deployments” area in the monitoring tab.

 

*Update 28/02/2020 *

When installing, you may get the following error (or similar)

App install failed.
Install application action failed: ‘APP.Edge.Latest’. Error Code0x80004005
Sending StatusMessage
Setting the authenticator.
CLibSMSMessageWinHttpTransport::Send: WinHttpOpenRequest – URL: SCCM01.company.com.au:80 CCM_POST /ccm_system/request
Not in SSL.
Request was successful.
hrInstallation, HRESULT=80004005 (installapplication.cpp,989)
pInstall->InstallApplications(saAppNames, sContinueOnError), HRESULT=80004005 (main.cpp,284)
Install application action cannot continue. ContinueOnErrorFlag is set to false.
Install Static Applications failed, hr=0x80004005

This is due to the powershell policy…. to get around this, modify the command line from this

powershell -File “.\Install-Edge.ps1” -MSIName “MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi” -ChannelID “{56eb18f8-b008-4cbd-b6d2-8c97fe7e9062}”

to this

powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File “.\Install-Edge.ps1” -MSIName “MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi” -ChannelID “{56eb18f8-b008-4cbd-b6d2-8c97fe7e9062}”