Please check HomepageLocation and HomepageIsNewTabPage in
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#HomepageLocation

And please also post whether the page helped you.

Thanks. Neither of those address the need we have. The first we already use to set the home page location. However, that setting doesn't apply to new tabs that are opened. The second sets the New Tab Page as the home page. That doesn't help us either. End users should never see the New Tab Page. They should only see a tab that opens to the home page URL as defined by the first policy setting. Each subsequent tab opened should also go to the home page URL. 

How about setting both at the same time? You are supposed to set HomepageIsNewTabPage to FALSE, and set HomepageLocation to the page you want simultaneously.

I also wonder if setting DefaultSearchProviderEnabled=true and DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL=<url> will do what you want.

#3 - We already have Group Policy set the way you described. See the attached screen shot.
 - We disable "Use New Tab as homepage" because we don't want the home page set to the "New Tab Page". That works. 
 - We enable "Configure the home page URL" to set the URL for the home page. That works. 

What those don't address together or separately is what happens when a user opens a new tab. A new tab isn't considered the home page so neither setting applies. What is needed is a setting or settings that control what happens when a new tab is opened. 

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I never thought I would use IE as a "better" example but you can see here how IE 11 handles new tabs. 

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"I also wonder if setting DefaultSearchProviderEnabled=true and DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL=<url> will do what you want."

Not from my testing it doesn't. I already had the first set. Adding my home page URL to the second didn't do anything. 

Thanks andrew.

Anyway I don't have rights to add labels to the feature request. Can anyone do it for me? Thanks.

Assigning to Georges for prioritization.

Checking in to see if this is going to be addressed? IE 11 provides this basic setting so it's odd to see it still missing in Chrome, especially for Enterprise users. 

This is currently on our roadmap but I currently don't have any ETA. I'll make sure to post any update when we have one.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0

commit fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0
Author: mad <mad@chromium.org>
Date: Fri Jan 20 03:15:33 2017

Add a New Tab page location group policy

BUG= 601044 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2643833002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#444964}

[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/browser/chrome_content_browser_client.cc
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[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/browser/policy/configuration_policy_handler_list_factory.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/browser/policy/policy_browsertest.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/browser/profiles/profile_impl.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/common/pref_names.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/common/pref_names.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/chrome/test/data/policy/policy_test_cases.json
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/components/policy/core/common/policy_loader_win.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/components/policy/resources/policy_templates.json
[modify] https://crrev.com/fbd10854de98cb409beb7fe940f458539555b2e0/tools/metrics/histograms/histograms.xml

As verified in ChromeOS M64.0.3282.190 10176.76.0 stable Glimmer with YAPS (setting not currently available in Cpanel), the new policy and feature worked and opening a new tab would show the page of the specific URL.

Chrome Enterprise test team please verify on Linux, Windows and Mac.

Group Policy works as advertised. I downloaded and installed the latest ADMX files and installed them in our domain. I then loaded the Group Policy Management Console on a Domain Controller and was able to see and update the appropriate Group Policy setting. On the clients, I ran gpupdate and logged back in to check to see if the Group Policy setting had taken effect. It did on a couple of Windows 10 clients that I tested. 

However, I did find a minor issue with this. When the new tab opens, the URL for the page does not show. Instead the URL bar is blank. I've attached an image showing this. Also attaching image showing version of Chrome that it was tested in. 

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This the intended behavior. The new tab page never shows the URL.

That makes sense when it's opening to the actual "New Tab". However, when it's opening to an actual web page, standard browser behavior is to display the URL of the associated page.

privard@ I leave it up to you to see if we need to fix this.