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 in MS Edge Chromium 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 in MS Edge Chromium (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 in MS Edge Chromium are now a standard feature, 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.
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