Chromebooks' new ephemeral mode

[Lucien Kress]

In a previous message I wrote:

3) Ability to wipe all user data after every session

Currently only Guest logins get wiped at logout. If people log in with a personal gmail account, their data will be saved (encrypted) and will stay there until some internal algorithm determines that the data can be deleted.

A new feature in beta, which I think is called "ephemeral mode", forces all user data to get wiped at the end of the session. I don't know if there will be a way to combine this with kiosk mode, so people can still choose to log in as Guest or with a personal gmail account. That would be nice.

I was happy to see that this feature had appeared in the control panel today. Screenshot attached. If it works as advertised, it means we needn't worry about patron data being left behind on the Chromebook.

Lucien

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[Walters, Martha]

Great!  Glad to see this.  I just changed our setting.  Thanks for always being “in the know”, Lucien.

 

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[Matt Amory]

Hi Lucien,

Thanks for the update.  Is the settings page you have a snapshot of part of Google's Enterprise Settings?  (which we don't have at present)

I don't see the option for ephemeral mode on this chromebook.

Matt Amory

[Lucien Kress]

Yes, I should have said -- only available on Enterprise managed Chromebooks.

Lucien

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[Matt Amory]

Hi Lucien,

Do you have a contact at Google that I could speak to about Enterprise Management for our small group of Chromebooks?

Thanks!

On Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:41:45 PM UTC-4, Matt Amory wrote:

Thanks

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Lucien Kress <luc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, I should have said -- only available on Enterprise managed Chromebooks.

Lucien

On Aug 30, 2012 9:25 AM, "Matt Amory" <matt....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Lucien,

Thanks for the update.  Is the settings page you have a snapshot of part of Google's Enterprise Settings?  (which we don't have at present)

I don't see the option for ephemeral mode on this chromebook.

Matt Amory

On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 2:00:19 PM UTC-7, lucienk wrote:

In a previous message I wrote:

3) Ability to wipe all user data after every session

Currently only Guest logins get wiped at logout. If people log in with a personal gmail account, their data will be saved (encrypted) and will stay there until some internal algorithm determines that the data can be deleted.

A new feature in beta, which I think is called "ephemeral mode", forces all user data to get wiped at the end of the session. I don't know if there will be a way to combine this with kiosk mode, so people can still choose to log in as Guest or with a personal gmail account. That would be nice.

I was happy to see that this feature had appeared in the control panel today. Screenshot attached. If it works as advertised, it means we needn't worry about patron data being left behind on the Chromebook.

Lucien

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[Lucien Kress]

Matt, can you remind me where you are located?

Lucien

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