[wpkg-users] Deploying Google Chrome - personal install not enterprise install?

[Dafydd Jones (techneg.it)]

Hi Pete,

Chrome stores its profile locally only by design, so you needn't worry
about any roaming issues. Users are "supposed" to use Chrome's sync to
transfer settings between machines.

I use an Enterprise install, but let Chrome manage its own updates (using a
"versiongreaterorequal" check), which needs a minimum of maintenance.

Regards,
Daf


On 19 November 2013 12:10, Pete Boyd <petes-lists at thegoldenear.org> wrote:

> Hi. I'm investigating deploying Google Chrome in addition to Firefox which
> is already the defaul browser and would remain so. This is on Windows XP
> (next year being on Windows 7) with a Samba domain controller, roaming
> profiles, where users have a Limited user account rather than being a
> Power User or Administrator.
>
> How do you people deploy it? Does it work OK in this kind of environment
> if you allow users to install it themselves into their Windows profile and
> then it update itself? Obviously the sane way to do this is an enterprise
> deployment, installing into %PROGRAMFILES% and managing updates myself.
> But, being as only a few users need it, I'm wondering if I can save the
> organisation the expense of me managing the updates, by having per-person
> installs of just this one app.
>
> I've done some research and can see how to do an enterprise deployment of
> Chrome. If I installed it this way I'd configure each user's cache
> location to a place outside of their Windows roaming profile (so it
> doesn't take up excessive space in the profile), and disable auto updates.
> If this was going to work when installed by each user then I could
> manually change their cache location.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Pete Boyd
>
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