
You can use any base64 encoders (I used ), but you will need to ensure that you have selected CRLF Windows as the Destination newline Separator. Now it’s time to convert the appassoc.xml file to base64 Take the XML output and put it through your favorite base64 encoder app. The following is the sample XML for Windows 11 PCs to configure Microsoft Edge as Default Browser using Intune. The following is the default browser (Microsoft Edge) configuration on Windows 11 PC. You will need to ensure that the Microsoft Edge browser is configured as the default browser for all the file extensions that you want. You can go into Settings apps in Windows 11 and navigate to Apps – Default Apps – Google Chrome. Windows 11 PC Default Browser Confirmation

I used the settings catalog policy instead of Intune Custom CSP policy to set Microsoft Edge as the default browser. I have shared the tips to configure Google Chrome as the default browser also in this post. All the other Windows 11 versions are supported for this policy. You can’t apply this policy to Windows 11 Home edition PCs. The Windows CSP policy called ApplicationDefaults/ DefaultAssociationsConfiguration is used to configure the default file associations for the Windows 11 operating system. Well, I don’t think this file association and Default apps settings in Windows 11 or Windows 10 using MDM policies is not the easiest one. In this post, let’s learn how to configure Microsoft Edge as default browser using Intune settings catalog policies.
