Setting homepage in google chrome through GPO in AD DS 2008

How to set homepage in google chrome through GPO in ADDS 2008

First you have to download ADMX templates from google.com, may be you find at bellow locations.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=187945
http://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chrome/policy/policy_templates.zip

Then place the chrom.admx and en-us files in sysvol at below locations "\\domainname\sysvol\domainname\Policies\PolicyDefinitions".

Now when ever you try to edit any GPO you will see google settings at both computer configuration and users configurations just like as below.

 

 

Now that you have successful added the ADMX temple in your Sysvol, now you can do different settings in chrome.

 

Lets set home page in chrome.

open Group Policy Management Console and create new GPO or edit the old one.

just right click the GPO which you have created and select Edit.

GPMC would be opened go to the following locations and follow these steps.

 

for both users configurations and computer configurations settings are same.

to apply on computers, expend computer configurations-->policies-->administrative templets-->google-->google chrome-->home page
here double click configure the home page url, select Enabled and in homepage URL enter the URL like "Google.com" and click OK.

but it would still not work.

so you have to do some other settings like below.
expend computer configurations-->policies-->administrative templets-->google-->google chrome-->startup pages
here are two settings.

double click on "Action on startup" and select Enabled.

from Action on startup select "open a list of URLS" and click OK.

now double click on "URLs to open on startup" and Enabled it as well. click on Show in "URLs to open on startup"

a new small window will be opened here you have to assign the value for "URLs to open on startup" here enter the complete URL which you want as homepage

 

 

 

Now link it to any OU or Domain.

 

Then go to client machine and type

C:/>gpupdate /force

or

restart your machine.

 

open your google chrome and you should see homepage.

 

If you still have issue then you can get help from the following tools.

 

RSOP.MSC

Gpresult

GPupdate /force

Open chrome and type as URL as below.

chrome://policy