

\URLlist.Please read the guides on how to disable cookies in the Edge browser on your computer, phone, or tablet. I would also recommend appending -whatif to the end of the Set-GPRegistryValue in the command below if you're not sure you've done everything correctly.Īlso make sure to change the -name of your GPO to match the one you created in the first few steps.įor adding the URL blocks in Google Chrome, use this command: Get-Content. It might be easier to remote into the server and run the commands locally. This was an easy copy and paste from the Meraki Group Policies page at Network Wide > Configure > Group Policies:įor these Powershell commands to run, first make sure you are able to connect to a writable Domain Controller. I created a list of URLs in Notepad with one entry on each line, like this example: The Chromium documentation for this Group Policy Object states that putting in a simple domain name of will block all http and https requests to any subdomains and the root. When that's created, move to the next step to define your blocked sites.

Keep the “Source Starter GPO” set to (none). In the popup, give your GPO a name that you'll remember. Right click on the “Group Policy Objects” container/folder and select “New”: Now, let's create a GPO policy and change one option per app (Chrome or Edge). When these ADMX templates are added, go to the next step. I won't cover that in this post (basically download the files and copy over to \\\SYSVOL\\Policies\PolicyDefinitions and en-US folders), but check the following guides for deployment information: I tweaked it a bit and targeted both Chrome and Edge in my environment.īefore you can continue, make sure you have the ADMX files added to the Domain Controller. I read through this post and it gave me some information about updating a GPO generally. I would need to copy and paste hundreds of entries to get this updated. When creating the policy, the Group Policy Management MMC tool only allows you to put one entry in at a time for the URL Blocking.

With this piece of hardware gone, there would be no web content filtering for all users in the organization.Īs a temporary workaround, I moved all of the existing URL blocks from the Meraki dashboard into a Group Policy Object that targets Chrome and Edge. A company I'm working for is decommissioning a Meraki firewall in the near future.
