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Status: Archived
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Closed: Jun 2018
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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug-Regression



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GPO policies won't apply on machine level

Reported by weaver.j...@gmail.com, May 13 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Set policies through GPO under Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Google > Google Chrome
2. Run Google Chrome
3. Go to to chrome://policy

What is the expected behavior?
Those policies set are supposed to say applied to machine

What went wrong?
None of those policies apply to machine unless if instead of computer configuration you do it under user configuration. This used to work with under computer configuration

Did this work before? Yes 56 or 57 as far as i have tested

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 25.0 r0

Could this be fixed or will all GPO policies through Windows only say current user now instead of machine?
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M58
Labels: Enterprise-Triaged
Owner: georgesak@chromium.org
Cc: kkaluri@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Tested this issue on Skytap Environment "Windows GPO Testing - Stable - K" 
Unable to reproduce the issue as per steps mentioned in the Comment #0

Attaching the screen-cast for reference.

weaver.jarod0312@ Could you please look into it and let us know your observations.


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No matter how many times I try to put it in as a machine policy, chrome doesn't take, not sure if it is a possible Windows bug.
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 27 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "kkaluri@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

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Cc: pastarmovj@chromium.org
I'm not able to reproduce this. I can set policies for either the machine or the user.

pastarmovj@, any ideas?
Can you provide a screenshot of regedit with the following key opened in it 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome

You should see all policies you set there. If you don't see them there as registry keys something is not woriking with your policy propagation.

You can try to run "gpupdate /force" from a command prompt to force the GPO application in case it has not happened when you were testing.
Nothing is there. Nothing is even there for Current User in registry as well. The registry wouldn't work because I have non domain system. Group Policy Editor does show the policies have applied however according to its GUI
Even on a non-domain joined machines the Windows GPO system will write those registry keys as part of the local Policy application process. Indeed Chrome in this case reads the GPO files directly but the fact that the registry keys are not created makes be think that something is going wrong with the policy application process.

Please run gpupdate /force from the command prompt and paste here the output of this command.
 
It says policy updated successfully 

C:\windows\system32>gpupdate /force
Updating Policy...

User Policy update has completed successfully.
Computer Policy update has completed successfully.


C:\windows\system32>pause
Press any key to continue . . .


Even after this, same thing
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Comment 13 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 1 2018

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

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