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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Aug 13
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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug



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GPO Roaming Profiles & Google Account Sync Profiles

Reported by riley....@gmail.com, Aug 7

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Enable settings in GPO to allow roaming copies of the chrome profile, and set the directory for the roaming profile.

GPO Setting: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Google > Google Chrome
Enable the creation of roaming copies of Google Chrome profile data = Enabled 
Set the roaming profile directory = ${documents}\ApplicationConfiguration\ChromeProfile

2. Log onto machine that is domain joined and check that GPO has been applied.
Start Google Chrome and sign into Chrome browser with your Google Account.

3. Google account signs in OK to Chrome browser, confirmed that account is signed into Chrome browser by pressing the profile icon by the minimise button.

Wait for sync of bookmarks, passwords, extensions etc.

What is the expected behavior?
Chrome browser to load from Google Accounts, the bookmarks, passwords, extensions etc.

What went wrong?
Chrome browser to load from Google Accounts, the bookmarks, passwords, extensions etc.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 67.0.3396.99  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

Closet I could come to this issue in the bug search was this comment in the bug report. https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome-admins/IKLGAStKOzU/n4H6i06CAwAJ

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Another issue is that these profiles never sync to Google anymore - e.g. if you login with your Google account normally your settings are synced across devices, using your Google account. But with this kind of roaming profiles, essentially a local sync backend is used - this means that your changes are synced to your local backend instead of Google's. While this might perfectly match some enterprise requirements, I am not ready for it.
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What went wrong? (update)
Chrome browser did not load from Google Accounts, the bookmarks, passwords, extensions etc. Left over night with no change. Reboot, log on and wait for sync, bookmarks etc still did not load.

Comment (addition)
I guess this is a check/query to confirm that this is either a true bug, or expected behaviour of the GPO in conjunction with the signin of Chrome Browser Google Account.

Cc: alito@chromium.org
Labels: Enterprise-Triaged
The RoamingProfileSupportEnabled policy is documented here: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#RoamingProfileSupportEnabled

According to the documentation: "Enabling this policy disables cloud sync". Does that clarify the intended behavior of the policy?
Thanks Alito. Clarifies the functionality, and the affects.

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)

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