A PowerShell script to setup Edge Profiles

Most of the work is done by Albert-Jan Schot and described in a blogpost.

I wanted to extend this with some default browser extensions and bookmarks and make it easy to use for my colleagues.

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NOTE

Use it at your own risk. If the script fails, your existing profiles are gone. You can manually restore it by replacing the file %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Local State with %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Local State Backup

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Installation

To use this follow the next steps:

• open PowerShell
• run command code $profile
• add the following line of code at the end of the file. It will always get the latest version of the script when you startup PowerShell.

iex (iwr 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sverleysen/SetupEdge/main/Setup-EdgeProfiles.ps1').Content

• Optional: add the following code block to install additional browser extensions. To get the extension id, open an extension in the store and copy the last part of the url.

$personalEdgeExtensions = @(
    "extension id"
);
$personalChromeExtensions = @(
    "extension id"
);

• run command . $profile to reload the settings.

Usage

New-EdgeProfile

It will create a new Edge profile, do some default settings, set default bookmarks and load browser extensions(that still needs to be installed manually)

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NOTE

In the process of creating the new profile, it will kill the Edge process, so all your Edge browsers will be closed

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New-EdgeProfile Customer1

Set-EdgePreferences

It will apply all the settings, bookmarks and extensions to an existing profile

Set-EdgeProfile

It will apply bookmarks and extensions to an existing profile

Set-EdgeExtensions

It will load extensions to an existing profile (that still needs to be installed manually)

Set-EdgeBookmarks

It will load bookmarks to an existing profile