How to enable Web Control on Edge

[julian.floyd]

Hello,

I am sure I am missing somthing obvious.

I am running Server 2012 R2 and Window 10 1809 machines.

We have ENS 10.6.1 and I have deployed Web Control to all client machines - it works fine on IE and Chrome. I cant find any information on how to get it enabled on Edge - I see 10.6.1 is compatible with Edge.

I am lacking GPO's for edge for whatever reason but I can find a way of manually enabling it on Edge.

Can someone please advise?

Thanks,

Julian

[Former Member]

From https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB87568

Enable ENS Web Control in Edge: 
In Edge, a prompt displays asking the end user to enable the ENS Web Control extension when opening Edge after the ENS Web Control installation. ENS Web Control does not function in Edge until the extension is enabled.

If an end user disables the ENS Web Control extension in Edge, you cannot re-enable the extension through ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and the McAfee Agent; the end user must re-enable the extension locally.

Windows provides a group policy (Prevent turning off required extensions) to harden the Edge extension. To ensure that users cannot disable the ENS Web Control extension, add the ENS Web Control extension PFN to the group policy Prevent turning off required extensions. The ENS Web Control extension PFN is the following and can be fetched from the Dev Center portal: 5A894077.McAfeeEndpointSecurityWebControl_wafk5atnkzcwy.

For detailed instructions to enable this group policy, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/new-policies#prevent-turning-off-required-ext....

Currently Microsoft does not provide a way to manage Edge through Active Directory to force-enable the ENS Web Control extension.

[julian.floyd]

Thanks for the reply - the thing is I am not getting the prompt. I have clearly missed a step somewhere.

[Former Member]

If you open Edge and go to "Extensions" do you see the McAfee Web Control extension? What state is it in?

[julian.floyd]

No - there are no extensions showing.

[Thussain]

Thank you for your query

Please follow the steps below to Enable Web control in Microsoft Edge browser 

Click on Settings and More or press ALT+X 

From the menu that appears, please select Extensions and turn it on as shown in the image below

**Note - ENS Web Control 10.6.1 adds support for Edge in Windows 10 version 1809 (October 2018 Update) and later.

Please refer to the Supported Internet browsers section from the link below 
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB82761

[julian.floyd]

It isnt in extensions to turn on - it doesnt look to have deployed into edge as it did in IE and chrome.

[Former Member]

Definitely strange. What version of ENS are you using? What OS is this?

[julian.floyd]

Windows 10 Pro (and some Enterprise) 1809

ENS Threat Prevention 10.6.1.1208

ENS Security Platform 104.1.1124

Agent 5.6.1.157

ENS Web Control 10.4.1.1082

[Former Member]

OK, should be fine.

Can I ask you to try this please

1. Close Edge.
2. Go to the following location:
   • 32-bit: C:\Program Files\McAfee\Endpoint Security\Web Control
   • 64-bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\McAfee\Endpoint Security\Web Control
3. Open the file McAfeeWebControl.appx. An installation prompt appears.
4. Follow the prompt and install the app package.
5. Close the prompt.
6. Open Edge. An Enable WC Extension prompt appears.
7. Click Enable.