Close Menu
Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7
    • Home
    • Intune
    • Windows
      • Modern Workplace
    • macOS
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Automation
      • Logic Apps
      • Intune Monitoring
      • GitHub
    • Security
      • Passwordless
      • Security
    • Speaking
    • About me
    Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7
    Home»Intune»Configure Cloud Site List Management for IE mode
    Intune

    Configure Cloud Site List Management for IE mode

    Peter KlapwijkBy Peter KlapwijkOctober 21, 2021Updated:October 21, 20215 Mins Read

    Microsoft recently introduced a new feature called Cloud Site List Management for IE mode. With this new feature, we can host and manage the Enterprise Mode Site list (EML) in the cloud, without creating our own cloud-hosted solution, as I described in this previous post.
    Cloud Site List Managemen is described as follows in the documentation:

    The preview experience lets you store your organization’s site list in a compliant cloud location instead of needing an on-premises infrastructure to host your site list. You can create, import, export site lists, and audit changes to site list entries through the M365 Admin Center. You can publish multiple site lists to the cloud and use group policy to assign different groups of devices to use different lists.

    Sounds good for companies who still need to maintain an EML, but are moving more and more service from on-premises to the cloud. Setup is pretty easy, so let’s see how that’s done.

    Pre-requisites

    There are some pre-requisites to use this feature in public preview (which might change when hitting General availability):

    • Customers must have an Azure AD tenant
    • The tenant subscription must include Exchange Services
    • Admins must have Microsoft Edge version 93 or greater installed
    • Admins need to be an Edge Administrator or a Global Administrator on the tenant to access the Microsoft Edge site lists experience under Org Settings on M365 Admin Center

    Opt in to the public preview

    to use the new feature during the public preview, we need to manually opt into the preview. This is done by changing the Release preferences in the M365 admin center to Targeted release. For this, you need to be a Global Admin.

    • Sign-in to the M365 admin center
    • Browse to Settings – Org settings
    • On the Organization profile tab click Release preferences
    • Choose Targeted release for everyone to enable targeted release for all users in the organization
    • Or choose Targeted release for selected users and select you targeted users.
    • Click Save

    I’ve only tested this with targeted release set to Targeted release for everyone

    It can take up to 24 hours for the following configuration changes to take effect in Microsoft 365. But for me, the new feature was already available in a few minutes, after refreshing the browser.

    Publish enterprise site list to the cloud

    Users who need to manage the Enterprise Mode Site list, need to be a Global Administrator or Edge Administrator. Edge Administrator is a new role found in Azure AD.

    The site list is managed via the M365 admin center.

    • Browse to Settings – Org settings
    • On the Services tab click Microsoft Edge‎ site lists (Preview)

    To get started we first need to create a new list.

    • Click Create a new list
    • Give the list a Name
    • Enter a Description (optional)
    • Click Create
    • Click on the name of the list

    When the list is opened, we have several options to fill the list. We can manually import a site by choosing Add a site. We can import an existing EML list (great for migrating our on-prem site list!), or export the cloud current list.

    It also shows the Site list ID, which is needed to publish the list to our Windows devices.

    <br>

    <br>

    • Click Add a site
    • Enter the Site address
    • Make a choice for Opens in, Compatibility mode and the other options
    • Enter a Comment (optional)
    • Click Save

    And our first site is added!
    But it’s not published yet as you can see on the status.

    • Click on Microsoft Edge site list at the top
    • Select the list
    • Click Publish site list
    • Enter a version number
    • Click Publish

    This action processed all the previous actions and published the list.

    The status of the previously added site is changed to published.

    Now that we have published our list, it’s ready to use on our Windows devices.

    Configure Microsoft Edge to use the cloud list

    The list can be published using GPOs, but I prefer using Microsoft Intune. The setting which we need to use is Configure the Enterprise Mode Cloud Site List. But this setting only works, when we also configure Configure Internet Explorer integration.

    • Sign in to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center
    • Browse to Devices, Windows, Configuration profiles
    • Click +Create profile

    <br>

    <br>

    • Select Windows 10 and later as Platform
    • Select Templates as Profile type
    • Select Administrative Templates
    • Click Create
    • Give the profile a Name
    • Enter a Description (Optional)
    • Click Next

    <br>

    <br>

    • Scroll down and Select Edge
    • Search for Cloud
    • Open Configure the Enterprise Mode Cloud Site List
    • Select Enabled
    • Enter the Site list ID in the text box
    • Click OK

    <br>

    <br>

    • Search for Configure Internet Explorer integration
    • Open the settings
    • Select Enabled
    • Select Internet Explorer mode
    • Click OK

    Finish creating the configuration profile and assign it to your Windows devices.

    End-user experience

    When we open Microsoft Edge on the end-users device, we can view all configured policy settings by browsing to Edge://policy. Here we can verify if the policy settings are applied.

    <br>

    <br>

    When we browse to Edge://compat we can see the configured Enterprise Mode Site List itself and the location.
    As we can see the location refers to https://edge.microsoft.com/enterprisesitemanagement/edge/edgeEmieSiteLists and our list ID.

    And the EML does its job, my website is opened in IE Mode.

    That’s it for this blog post. Thanks for reading and happy testing!

    Browser Edge EMS Intune MEM Microsoft 365 Microsoft Edge Microsoft Endpoint Manager Windows Windows 10 Windows 11
    Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email WhatsApp
    Peter Klapwijk
    • Website
    • X (Twitter)
    • LinkedIn

    Peter is a Security (Intune) MVP since 2020 and is working as Modern Workplace Engineer at Wortell in The Netherlands. He has more than 15 years of experience in IT, with a strong focus on Microsoft technologies like Microsoft Intune, Windows, and (low-code) automation.

    Related Posts

    Stop shortcut files from syncing to OneDrive

    May 13, 2021

    Block Android enrollments by device manufacturer in Microsoft Intune

    February 15, 2020

    Deploy Heimdal Security with Microsoft Intune

    December 22, 2017
    Add A Comment
    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    Peter Klapwijk

    Hi! Welcome to my blog post.
    I hope you enjoy reading my articles.

    Hit the About Me button to get in contact with me or leave a comment.

    Awards
    Sponsor
    Latest Posts

    Update Windows Defender during Windows Autopilot enrollments

    May 16, 2025

    Hide the “Turn on an ad privacy feature” pop-up in Chrome with Microsoft Intune

    April 19, 2025

    How to set Google as default search provider with Microsoft Intune

    April 18, 2025

    Using Windows Autopilot device preparation with Windows 365 Frontline shared cloud PCs

    April 13, 2025
    follow me
    • Twitter 4.8K
    • LinkedIn 6.1K
    • YouTube
    • Bluesky 1.5K
    Tags
    Administrative Templates Android Automation Autopilot Azure Azure AD Browser Conditional Access Edge EMS Exchange Online Feitian FIDO2 Flow Google Chrome Graph Graph API Identity Management Intune Intune Monitoring iOS KIOSK Logic Apps macOS MEM MEMMonitoring Microsoft 365 Microsoft Edge Microsoft Endpoint Manager Modern Workplace Office 365 OneDrive for Business Outlook Passwordless PowerApps Power Automate Security SharePoint Online Teams Windows Windows 10 Windows10 Windows 11 Windows Autopilot Windows Update
    Copy right

    This information is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, confers no rights and is not supported by the authors, or In The Cloud 24-7.

     

    Copyright © 2025 by In The Cloud 24-7/ Peter Klapwijk. All rights reserved, No part of the information on this web site may be reproduced or posted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.

    Shorthand; Don’t pass off my work as yours, it’s not nice.

    Recent Comments
    • Adam on Get notified on expiring Azure App Registration client secrets
    • Peter Klapwijk on Update Windows Defender during Windows Autopilot enrollments
    • Rob van de Ven on Add a certificate to the Trusted Publishers with Intune without reporting errors
    • Carl on Update Windows Defender during Windows Autopilot enrollments
    • Peter Klapwijk on The next step in a passwordless Windows experience
    most popular

    Application installation issues; Download pending

    October 1, 2024

    Restrict which users can logon into a Windows 10 device with Microsoft Intune

    April 11, 2020

    How to change the Windows 11 language with Intune

    November 11, 2022

    Update Microsoft Edge during Windows Autopilot enrollments

    July 9, 2024
    Peter Klapwijk – In The Cloud 24-7
    X (Twitter) LinkedIn YouTube RSS Bluesky
    © 2025 ThemeSphere. Designed by ThemeSphere.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

    Manage Cookie Consent
    To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
    Functional Always active
    The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
    Preferences
    The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
    Statistics
    The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
    Marketing
    The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
    Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
    View preferences
    {title} {title} {title}