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OS: Windows
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Roaming Profile: Policies are available, but not working

Reported by schlo...@gmail.com, Dec 29 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.108 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Enable Roaming Profiles via GPO (https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RoamingProfileSupportEnabled) and define a profile location (https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RoamingProfileLocation).
2. Launch Chrome, change something (e.g. create a bookmark).
3. Check if the changes have been saved to the location defined in the policies or in the standard path (%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\)

What is the expected behavior?
Quoting the Chromium Policy List regarding RoamingProfileSupportEnabled:
"If you enable this setting, the settings stored in Google Chrome profiles like bookmarks, autofill data, passwords, etc. will also be written to a file stored in the Roaming user profile folder or a location specified by the Administrator through the Google Chrome policy. Enabling this policy disables cloud sync."

What went wrong?
It was stored in the regular profile path (%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\).

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 63.0.3239.108  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

- Tested on Windows 10 1607 (Build 1493.1884), Windows 7 (Build 7601: SP1) and Citrix.
- Maybe there is another policy interfering with the Roaming Profile, therefore I uploaded a JSON export. My most obvious guess was the SyncDisabled. I have abandoned this thought after reading the SyncDisabled description: "This policy should not be enabled when RoamingProfileSupportEnabled policy is set to enabled as that feature shares the same client side functionality. The Google-hosted synchronization is disabled in this case completely."
(source: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#SyncDisabled).
- This has been observed by other users: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome-admins/IKLGAStKOzU/yEIwe6pgBAAJ .
 
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Comment 1 by meh...@chromium.org, Dec 29 2017

Mergedinto: 798082
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

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