Hi Suman,
It’s true that the Internet Explorer Maintenance (IEM) settings have been deprecated in favor of Group Policy Preferences for Internet Explorer 10 or newer.
When you select “
Make this the default browser” in any browser, the browser will registers itself into some registry keys to make itself the default browser. Windows’ shell will launch a URL with an application associated with the URL’s protocol based
on the value of those registry keys.
So I think, maybe we can use a GPO to update the value of those related registry keys for each protocol (ftp/http/https) to “Internet Explorer” in your environment. This way, Internet Explorer will be your default browser.
For more details, you can refer to this TechNet thread:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/08b9c3ee-d203-4fe2-b876-80886d33d66a/how-can-make-ie-as-default-browser-and-no-body-can-change-it-from-other-bowser?forum=winserverGP
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Ethan Hua
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