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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2018
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Chrome policies are not being applied in Windows Home (7, 8, 10)

Reported by jefflloy...@gmail.com, Jan 31 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.119 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Used Windows GPO on Windows Home (7, 8, 10) with Chrome adm template to apply Chrome policy settings

What is the expected behavior?
Open Chrome and go to Chrome://policy and nothing is applied

What went wrong?
The Chrome policy is not applied after updating the GPO and restarting the computer

Did this work before? Yes 63.0.3239.108

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.119  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M64
Cc: kkaluri@chromium.org pastarmovj@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Bisect
Labels: TE-NeedsTriageFromMTV
Since TE doesn't have Win(7,8,10) home editions machines, adding TE-NeedsTriageFromMTV label for further triage
To test, please install Windows GPO on Windows 10 Home using the following script (bat). This will un-package the Windows Group Policy Editor on Windows 10 Home Edition: 

@echo off 
pushd "%~dp0" 

dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt 
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt 

for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i" 
pause
FYI, this issue is affecting 10s of 1,000s of our customers (Inteset.com). Hopefully it can be addressed quickly.
Is this issue being addressed? It is urgent.
Can some please provide an update on this issue? It would be very much appreciated.
Cc: -pastarmovj@chromium.org
Owner: pastarmovj@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
The issue is being investigated. We don't have yet an ETA for the solution but will update the bug as soon as we have something new.
Okay, thank you. Please let me know if I can provide any other info. 
Hi there. Just checking to see if there is any new information on this issue. This is affecting our business substantially. Thank you for your time spent on this.
Could someone provide an update on this issue please? thank you.
Please let me know if there is any progress on this issue or if it is not going to be investigated/rectified.
Cc: pastarmovj@chromium.org
Owner: georgesak@chromium.org
Hi,

Couple of things here:
- We don't support GPOs on Windows Home. Instead, you can push policies through the registry (Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\). These will be read by Chrome. More info here: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
- Note that since Windows Home cannot be joined to an Active Directory domain, some policies will not be picked up by Chrome. These are mentioned in the policy page with "This policy is not available on Windows instances that are not joined to a Microsoft® Active Directory® domain."

I hope that helps. Let me know otherwise.
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
Okay, we will give this a try. Thank you.
Pushing the policies through the Windows Registry is still not working under Windows Home. For example: Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLWhitelist\1 = "universalremotes.net" allows any website. This was tested under HKCU and HKLM. We tested other Chrome policies too with no success. It appears Chrome is not reading this.
Sorry, this is working. Thank you!
Good to know, thanks.

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