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title: Learn About Group Policy Limits for InPrivate Extensions
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description: Find out why Group Policy doesn't allow enabling extensions for InPrivate browsing in Microsoft Edge and learn the manual workaround.
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description: Works around an issue in which Group Policy doesn't allow enabling extensions for InPrivate browsing in Microsoft Edge.
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ms.custom: 'sap:Manageability and Deployment\Group Policy: ADM template and MDM'
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ms.reviewer: dili, Johnny.Xu, v-shaywood
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ms.date: 01/08/2026
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# Can't enable extensions for InPrivate browsing by using Group Policy
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After deploying an extension through [Group Policy](/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/group-policy/group-policy-overview), you might notice that there isn't a policy option to enable the extension for [InPrivate browsing](/legal/microsoft-edge/privacy#inprivate-browsing). This article explains why that policy option is missing, and how users can manually enable the extension for InPrivate browsing.
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After you deploy an extension through [Group Policy](/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/group-policy/group-policy-overview), you notice that there is no policy option to enable the extension for [InPrivate browsing](/legal/microsoft-edge/privacy#inprivate-browsing). This article explains why that policy option is missing, and how to manually enable the extension for InPrivate browsing.
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## Symptoms
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You experience the following problem:
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1. You successfully deployed an extension through Group Policy to your clients.
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1. You want to enable the extension for InPrivate browsing by using policy, but there's no policy option available.
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You experience the following issue
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1. By using Group Policy, you successfully deploy an extension to your clients.
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1. You want to enable the extension for InPrivate browsing by using a policy. However, no policy option for this configuration is available.
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## Cause
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By design, you can't enable extensions for InPrivate browsing through Group Policy. This restriction is intentional to protect user privacy during InPrivate browsing sessions.
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## Solution
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## Workaround
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End users can manually enable extensions for InPrivate browsing by following these steps:
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To manually enable extensions for InPrivate browsing, follow these steps:
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1. Open Microsoft Edge and go to `edge://extensions`.
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1. Find the extension you want to enable for InPrivate browsing.
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1. Open Microsoft Edge, and go to `edge://extensions`.
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1. Find the extension that you want to enable for InPrivate browsing.
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1. Select **Details** for the corresponding extension.
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1. Select the **Allow in InPrivate** checkbox.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/enable-extension-inprivate-policy/allow-inprivate.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the Allow in InPrivate option in Edge extension details.":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/enable-extension-inprivate-policy/allow-inprivate.png" alt-text="The Allow in InPrivate option in Edge extension details.":::
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