Download Admx Templates For Google Chrome
Virgen Vanier
Google Chrome Administrative Templates files are divided into .admx files and language-specific .adml files. To configure Chrome with group policy objects, install administrative templates that add rules and settings for Google Chrome.
To take advantage of the benefits of .admx files, you must create a Central Store in the sysvol folder on a Windows domain controller. The Central Store is a file location checked by the Group Policy tools by default.
1. Copy all required/desired ADMX files from /Configuration/admx to
C:\windows\policydefinitions
2. Copy all the ADML files from /Configuration/admx/ to
C:\windows\policydefinitions\
3. Start gpedit.msc to see the new policy under the single Google root
Justin1250Just did this and now I'm getting this message: 'An appropriate resource file could not be found for file \\domain\sysvol\domain\policydefinitions\chrome.admx (error=3): the system cannot find the path specified.' Why am i getting this? also what program did you use to draw a red square in the screenshot above? I've been trying to figure that out for long time now.
Google provide a whole host of settings for Google Chrome packaged up in a set of ADM and ADMX files for use with Group Policy. To take advantage of their settings, you first need to import the ADM or ADMX templates into your Policy Definitions folder by following the process below:
For context we're testing moving certain GPOs to Intune such as in this case one setting for Google Chrome. Event viewer says that it can't find the file (./User/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/chromeIntuneV1Policygooglechrome/RestrictSigninToPattern), Result: (The system cannot find the file specified.)
What should we be doing at this stage? Should we manually copy the Chrome ADMX/ADML files to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions? Are we just to wait for them to appear? What? Microsoft has subpar instructions regarding these new ADMX templates in Intune! -us/mem/intune/configuration/administrative-templates-windows
Today still, 90 something devices still in need of chrome updates according to defender. I know it takes time to populate and I know these vulnerabilities are new, but how do these templates work? Why are we getting notified of vulnerabilities in the first place if Chrome and Edge should be updating automatically? We learn of these vulnerabilities when all of our devices become susceptible to them, when I'd like to get ahead of them.
The changes are being reflected in the registry, yet updates are not installing unless they are being found manually by opening Chrome and going to settings and then about to check for updates, I want them to be automatic. I saw this post where they had a similar issue and fixed it by changing the OMA-URI values, but to my understanding these templates should just be working out of the box and that admx ingestion is no longer needed. Can anyone help me here?
We are currently running XenApp 7.15 CU2 and publishing shared desktops running on Server 2008 R2. Hosts are configured with 4 vCPU and 16GB RAM. Up until this point we have only ever had and supported IE as our web browser. More and more in recent years we run into products/services/websites that have issues with IE or vendors telling us they require or only support the use of Chrome with their product/service/website. We recently tested this in our XenApp environment. We installed Chrome via the Enterprise installer and used their ADMX templates to strip and lock it down as much as possible before letting our users use it. Typically we can get about 20 users on each host which will use up about 40% of the CPU and 80% of the RAM. With Chrome installed, and our users using it exclusively instead on IE, we were only able to get 9 users on a host before consuming all of the RAM. Because our users typically leave their browsers open all day it slowly consumed more overtime which caused paging and higher CPU times which caused routine calls from those users complaining about how slow everything was.
You can display all Google Chrome settings configured with a GPO. Open Chrome://policy address in your browser. Chrome settings you set through the registry or ADMX GPO templates are displayed here.
You can install specific Google Chrome extensions for all domain users using GPO. For example, you want to install the AdBlock extension on all computers automatically. Open the chrome://extensions settings page and install the extension you need on a reference computer.
Thank you very much. We have deployed Citrix XenApp in a company and they have published google chrome. Our client requires that users have a predefined Proxy settings and this proxy settings can not be changed by users.
Your guidelines helped us.
I am trying to get the Google Chrome template to appear in GPMC. On the DC I have copied the admx files to C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions and the adml files to C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\en-us. I have rebooted the DC several times, but the Google Chrome template still does not show up under Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates. I can see the Google Chrome template in gpedit.msc though. Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks
Yes, these 21 folders with GUIDs are your domain GPOs.
Create a folder in this directory called Policy Definitions and copy the admx Chrome files into it.
After some time, check that the folder \\dc1\SYSVOL\domain.com\Policies\Policy Definitions has appeared on all your DCs.
I have the ADMx and everything where it supposed to b. When I do an ajustment in GPO like bookmarks disable or disable F11 full screen I refresh chrome and check chrome://policy nothing has changed.
BE MINDED its on a local computer no domain no nothing.
After the tenant was created I started uploading a new ADMX file I created to define some additional OneNote settings. I was asked to troubleshoot another upload error with this OneNote.admx. While uploading the ADMX I got myself another issue to fix and another blog to write!
As shown above, this Windows.ADMX targets the Microsoft.Policies.Windows prefix instead of using it. So the resume: The windows.admx defines the policy: Microsoft.Policies.Windows.
I have the same request. I only deploy browsers that can be managed and hardened in my enterprise, and they have to be able to be managed using admin templates through domain group policy. Both Firefox and Edge support this. Looking forward to it in the near future.
Once you have located your PolicyDefinitions folder, we can store the Chrome Group Policy templates in it after you download the ZIP files. I recommend you do this on a client machine, as we will make some changes to the folders before we add them to the PolicyDefinitions folder.
Inside the windows folder, open the admx folder. This folder contains multiple language folders that you do not need if you will be managing the Group Policies in English. You can delete every folder in here except en-US.
For Windows, there are two types of policy templates: an ADM and an ADMX template. The templates show which registry keys you can set to configure Chrome, and what the acceptable values are. Chrome looks at the values set in these registry keys to determine how to act.
Starting in Intune Service release 2203, Google Chrome settings are included in the Settings Catalog and Intune Administrative Templates (ADMX). You can manage the Google Chrome browser and configure the settings using Administrative templates in Intune (Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Center).
There are many other Chrome browser settings that you can manage with Intune using these administrative templates. In my upcoming articles, I will cover more about the Chrome browser management using Intune.
Unfortunately, Windows 10 doesn't include any native Group Policy support for Chrome management. Instead, IT pros who need Google Chrome browser management at the Group Policy level must download Group Policy templates directly from Google.
The Group Policy templates for Chrome management are available in both ADM and ADMX format. ADM is a legacy Group Policy file template compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and earlier OSes. For Chrome management on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or more recent OSes, IT will need the ADMX files, which are the current standard for a Group Policy file template.
Having read the excellent posts from both Oliver Kieselbach and Peter van der Woude regarding the ingestion of third party ADMX templates, I decided to implement their suggestions in my test environment. This emerging area of configuration is where I believe we truly start to add value to devices and users that are modern managed.
Lets see if PowerShell can grab the compete Ingested ADMX file information from the registry location . So using a simple one liner we can output the value we have in the registry to a text file and then compare it with the Chrome.admx file from Google:
My error was to use a copy of Chrome.admx that came from the Central Store in my work environment. It must be out of date and maybe it doesnt contain the SitePerProcess information neccessary to make this configuration valid on the target device..
Hi Yechezkel, my apologies for the late reply. I was on holiday. Yes, it is possible to install an extension on a closed environment. This article describes the process accurately: -a-chrome-extension-without-an-internet-connection/. I tested it myself and it works. I do not know of any automated way how to install extensions offline though (I am not saying that it is not possible).
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