Microsoft Edge browser pop up window breaking e2e scripts on VMs

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

My Nimsoft e2e scripts are failing because of this Microsoft Edge pop-up.

• I was able to get around the old pop-up using an option to never allow sites to open in Edge.
• This one our desktop team looked at on Friday and cannot have this removed.  I have currently 16 vms that scripts are breaking on. 
• Our desktop team IE has been end of life for almost a year now and will be removed completely in an upcoming Windows update.
• IE 11 is unusable and I have no edge extension.

Environment

• Release: 20.4
• e2e_appmon: v2.51
• Nimrecorder version: 6.0
• No edge extensions on the vms

Cause

• Microsoft forcing migration from IE11 to Edge.

Resolution

Microsoft Edge popup: "The future of Internet Explorer is in Microsoft Edge."

• Microsoft and other sites have posted some workarounds, e.g.,

• 'Set the RedirectSitesFromInternetExplorerRedirectMode policy to Enabled AND then in the dropdown under Options:

• Redirect incompatible sites from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge, select Disable.

• This setting will stop redirecting as soon as the policy takes effect.

• This is not a DX UIM product or e2e_appmon/WinTask issue.

• This orother popups may occur from major browser updates or the first time a new browser is installed. In some cases, this may have to be handled manually by clicking through the prompts/pages but only the first time they show up.