Considering this as feature request, hence, marking it as untriaged for further triage.

Hey Matt, assigning this FR to you.

Hi John,

Curious if you have tried our Managed Bookmark policy:
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#ManagedBookmarks

If so, can you tell me how this does/doesn't meet your needs?

Thanks,

From what I understand Managed Bookmarks do not allow the user to update
them and we want all user bookmarks to be redirected. One of the goals with
this is to make it so that in the event of a virus, OS corruption, or
system replacement there is no need to back up any data from the machine in
question. If there is a virus infection or OS corruption we can simple
re-image the machine and with all pertinent data (this would include Chrome
Bookmarks) redirected to a server there would be no data loss and minimal
IT overhead. The benefits would be the same with hardware replacements. The
other benefit would be users bookmarks would follow them around. As I
stated before we want the users bookmarks to follow them not just ones we
manage.

Thank you for following up on this.

John

Thank you for explaining your goal/objective here.  Based on those requirements, we have a great solution: Roaming Profile support:

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RoamingProfileSupportEnabled
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RoamingProfileLocation

This will backup the entire profile (including bookmarks) and follow users between machines if the feature is enabled.

That's just it, we don't want the whole profile we just want the bookmarks.
Roaming profiles comes with too much extra.

Understood.  Thanks John. 

 For now, roaming profile (the whole profile) is the only supported option to accomplish what you are looking for. We will consider this feedback for a future feature to add granular controls over what is/isn't sync'd via Chrome Sync & roaming profiles.

Thank you again,

As an IT admin, I have the same request. We offer different workplace as Windows 10 or Citrix to our users and we would like to sync their bookmarks between this environment.
we don't want to roam the all profile which can be very large and could higly decrease Citrix experience.
regards

Important Feature. The bookmark redirection ist essential for us too.
If et would be possible to redirect to a Network share, multiple accesses to this share from different (clients) chrome-sessions sould be a Problem.

Same point as the others have. We only need the bookmarks without the overhead of the whole user profile.

Is there any further news on this as I have just come to this problem now we are using window 10 and UEV

This is a critical feature needed in large scale enterprises. I manage a Citrix environment with over 50,000 users and am constantly fighting Chrome Profile bloat. As stated by others, all we need to preserve are the bookmarks. We don't need 5TB of Chrome APPDATA. Thank you for your consideration in adding this feature.

We use AppSense/Ivanti Environment Manager and are now seeing issues trying to roam bookmarks.  Chrome doesn't like using the virtual app personalization provided by EM.  It insists on writing to the real file system.  It has been working up until the latest release.  Now users are reporting problems and I'm going to try to pull everything out of the DB to the user's Chrome directory.  A lot of unneeded work for something that was (mostly) working.  

If users can sync with the Google cloud, there should also be a comparable enterprise solution to do the same.

We are using OneDrive as homefolder. Roaming the profile to OneDrive does not work great, so being able to redirect just the bookmarks would be very helpful. Right now I'm considering using a scheduled task and a Powershell script that handles this, but it might be a bit messy.

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