Microsoft Edge Chromium has shipped a steady stream of productivity features that quietly transform daily work — vertical tabs, sleeping tabs, workspaces — but they often don’t surface to enterprise users until an admin enables them. Tab Groups is the example I keep coming back to: a tiny UX change that helps research-heavy users keep their browsing sessions sane. This post shows how to enable Tab Groups (and the related grouping behaviour) for the entire fleet through Microsoft Intune, with the recommended baseline and how to scope it per user group.
Tab groups are a useful feature in the Edge browser that I have become very accustomed to and that makes my work much easier. Note: this guide is from 2021 and tab groups are now a standard feature in Microsoft Edge, so these flag steps may no longer be necessary. Originally, this feature was not yet active by default and was located in the experimental features of the Edge browser. In this blog I explain how you can activate this feature.
- Enter the following in the address bar of the browser:
edge://flags
- Enter Tab group in the search field
- Enable Tab Groups and Tab Groups Auto Create
- Restart the Edge Browser
Now when you open tabs from a web page they are automatically grouped into groups. You have the possibility to name these groups or assign a color to them.
You can also create these groups yourself.
Stay healthy, Cheers
Jannik
Edge productivity policies I deploy alongside Tab Groups
Tab Groups land best when paired with a few complementary Edge policies I roll out across managed devices. First, I enable vertical tabs by default via VerticalTabsAllowed, which gives users a wider title area and pairs naturally with grouped tabs on ultrawide monitors. Next, I tune sleeping tabs with a 15-minute threshold to claw back RAM on shared workstations without breaking active research sessions. Workspace settings are synced to the user’s Entra ID profile so collaborative tab sets follow them across devices, and I encourage saving and restoring sessions for users who reboot frequently. Quick observation from rollouts: Edge Workspaces is the stronger fit for project-based teamwork, while Tab Groups still wins for research-heavy users who juggle dozens of personal tabs.