You are able to combine both options if you wish: 1) push configuration profiles from your MDM server to manage settings and enroll the device into Chrome Browser Cloud Management and 2) use Chrome Browser Cloud Management for reporting only. Please note that the user does not need to be signed in with their Google account for this option to work. Once enrolled, you can manage the same settings through the Google Admin console for each Chrome web browser.

To do so, you would generate a token that would get pushed out through a configuration profile to your Macs. This would allow you to manage the Chrome web browser from a single console. Here is an article that talks about how to manage Chrome using the Chrome Browser Cloud Management console: Once a registered Google application is relaunched, it will ensure the app is running the latest version. Unfortunately, the Google Software Update Agent won’t necessarily force users to do anything as it’s pretty transparent in the background and its job when unmanaged is just to check for updates and stage them for installation on a relaunch of a Google application. Keep in mind that the Google Software Update Agent can manage the updates for various Google apps on macOS. Here is an article that talks about how to manage Google Chrome updates: īy generating a configuration profile that manages the domain, you can ensure that Google’s auto update mechanism is configured according to your needs. Options for Managing Google Software Update/Keystone Configuration Profiles

Once Chrome is registered with the Google Software Update agent, there’s a few options for managing it to ensure that Google Chrome stays up to date. This package installs Google Chrome but also configures the Google Software Update Agent which many admins were doing with a separate script.

If you’re not already doing so, I recommend you start using the enterprise Google Chrome installer package. Google Chrome has a few ways in which you can manage its update mechanism which I wanted to post about.

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