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DrEmpiricism / Optimize-Offline

Optimize-Offline is a Windows 10 offline image optimization framework.
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[Question] How do you re-enable Sync & Login with Microsoft Edge #192

Closed ghost closed 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

I've been searching for hours and I can't figure out how to either revert it or prevent it from changing.

Greatly appreciate your help in solving this, and thank you for all the effort you two put in!

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DrEmpiricism commented 4 years ago

Optimize-Offline does not disable Microsoft Edge synchronization, though that's not to say the removal of a System Application/Capability/Package would not affect it from working properly.

According to my ADMX templates, the Group Policy setting for this is located here: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Sync your settings

Lastly, is this for Edge HTML or Edge Chromium?

ghost commented 4 years ago

Edge Chromium.

I was following the guide on MDL/GitHub that listed a bunch of services that could be safely removed and it seems to be a side effect of one of the ones listed. I tried to deduce it down to a specific service but wasn't able to after rebuilding and reformatting quite a few times.

I followed the rest of the guide exactly and only removed Edge/EdgeDevKit and Windows Defender (can't remember the name) and Sync worked perfectly with only those removed even with all of the registry tweaks enabled.

I only just realized that you're not the author of the thread on MDL as well, so sorry for wasting your time.

DrEmpiricism commented 4 years ago

Diving into this error a bit more, the exact error description is "A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated." This kind of error is primarily isolated to domain-joined devices (usually a result of 'domain jumping').

Is your device connected to a domain by any chance?

I would recommend creating a new administrator profile and signing into it - keeping it in its default state - and then checking if synchronization works on a fresh, untouched account.

And it's not a problem to be inquiring about that here; you are not wasting my time. No I did not create the thread on the MDL forums and I very, very rarely check that thread simply because this repository is more appropriate to handle bug issues.

ghost commented 4 years ago

Yes, when I format I always join a domain instead of logging into a Microsoft account.

Unfortunately I'm not in a situation at the moment where I can test and see if that would resolve the issue.

I appreciate all of your help!