

Right-click on Windows 10 Start Menu and select Windows PowerShell (admin) and copy-paste the below command: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName Windows-Defender-ApplicationGuard

It helps enterprises and other users to run Edge browser and office app in an isolated Hyper-V virtual machine/container to make them separate from the host operating system.


To execute Microsoft Edge browser and Office apps such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in a safe environment, so that they can’t harm the main system Microsoft has implemented a feature on Windows 10 called Defender Application Guard. What is Defender Application Guard (WDAG) and how does it work? And for good performance, the system should have at least 8 GB of RAM and a CPU that supports Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) which are common nowadays in all modern system running Windows 10 operating systems. Well, one thing to be noted that, Defender Application Guard is not available in the home version of Windows 10, but only in the Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions running on Build 16188+. To run Edge browser in a Sandbox environment, we need to first enable the “ Microsoft Defender Application Guard” feature. Of course, this is not some feature that we want to use regularly that’s why it is disabled by default. The new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium offers a possibility to isolate the browser session from the rest of the system. And here in this tutorial, we let you know how to do this… To test some online applications using the Microsoft Edge browser but in an isolated and protected Sandbox environment, we can take the support of Windows 10 office or Edge Defender Application Guard ( WDAG).
