wroberts Posted October 10, 2013 Posted October 10, 2013 Hi All, We are going to be rolling out chrome to the school, we are looking for a method to disable the ability to go into the "Settings" panel within chrome Any Ideas ? Regards Will
TronXP Posted October 10, 2013 Posted October 10, 2013 Google provide a Group Policy object you can use to control what chrome does.
wroberts Posted October 10, 2013 Author Posted October 10, 2013 Google provide a Group Policy object you can use to control what chrome does. Hi TronXP, i have looked in the ADM policy file and was unable to find the option to do this ? Are you able to provide any more information ? Cheers Will
Arthur Posted October 14, 2013 Posted October 14, 2013 If you add chrome to the Disable URL protocol schemes GPO, this will block the Settings page (in addition to everything else that is accessed via a chrome:// URL). I don't block the Settings page for our students because it's easy enough to grey out the individual settings you do not want them changing by configuring them through Group Policy.
jonnykewell1 Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 we do exactly that, it might be that you need to get to the settings just to see what is configured even if you can't actually change it as staff or students.
wroberts Posted October 15, 2013 Author Posted October 15, 2013 If you add chrome to the Disable URL protocol schemes GPO, this will block the Settings page (in addition to everything else that is accessed via a chrome:// URL). I don't block the Settings page for our students because it's easy enough to grey out the individual settings you do not want them changing by configuring them through Group Policy. How would i go about blocking this URL via the GPO ? Regards Will
Arthur Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 How would I go about blocking this URL via the GPO? It looks like Google have deprecated that setting now, so you would need to add chrome to the URLBlacklist policy instead. Computer Configuration » Administrative Templates » Google » Google Chrome » Block access to a list of URLs » Enabled » click [b]Show[/b] » add [b]chrome[/b] to the list If it has worked, you'll see the following message if you go to Settings after restarting Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/calmqnE.png
wroberts Posted October 15, 2013 Author Posted October 15, 2013 It looks like Google have deprecated that setting now, so you would need to add chrome to the URLBlacklist policy instead. Computer Configuration » Administrative Templates » Google » Google Chrome » Block access to a list of URLs » Enabled » click [b]Show[/b] » add [b]chrome[/b] to the list If it has worked, you'll see the following message if you go to Settings after restarting Chrome. http://i.imgur.com/calmqnE.png Cheers arthur ! However I dont seem to have that option in the adm pack I have any chance you have a copy of your adm package or could you export yours ?
Arthur Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 I don't seem to have that option in the adm pack I have I am using the latest Chrome ADMX & ADML files from here since we have Windows 7 on our PCs. There's also an .adm file in the zip file for older versions of Windows.
wroberts Posted October 16, 2013 Author Posted October 16, 2013 I am using the latest Chrome ADMX & ADML files from here since we have Windows 7 on our PCs. There's also an .adm file in the zip file for older versions of Windows. I have added the selection as requested and it doesn't appear to work ! ? 1
wroberts Posted October 16, 2013 Author Posted October 16, 2013 This is now working! I had to add the following in to prevent settings from opening ! chrome://* Thank you all for your Help ! 2
jehutyzzz Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 @wroberts can you teach me step by step what you did in disabling chrome settings? thank you
kennysarmy Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 Our policy states: Block access to a list of URLs chrome://* chrome:// chrome://settings/ But when the users try to print they get a website blocked message!
skell Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 Look at chrome://about Thats a list of internal Chrome URL's If you block them all, you'll also block chrome://print, which stops users being able to print. 1
kennysarmy Posted December 2, 2015 Posted December 2, 2015 I've now just blocked these: chrome://appcache-internals chrome://accessibility chrome://apps chrome://blob-internals chrome://cache chrome://chrome chrome://chrome-urls chrome://components chrome://conflicts chrome://copresence chrome://crashes chrome://device-log chrome://devices chrome://discards chrome://dns chrome://extensions chrome://flags chrome://flash chrome://gcm-internals chrome://gpu chrome://help chrome://histograms chrome://indexeddb-internals chrome://inspect chrome://invalidations chrome://local-state chrome://media-internals chrome://memory chrome://memory-internals chrome://nacl chrome://net-internals chrome://omnibox chrome://password-manager-internals chrome://plugins chrome://policy chrome://predictors chrome://profiler chrome://quota-internals chrome://serviceworker-internals/ chrome://settings chrome://signin-internals chrome://suggestions chrome://sync-internals chrome://system chrome://terms/ chrome://thumbnails chrome://tracing/ chrome://translate-internals chrome://user-actions chrome://version chrome://view-http-cache chrome://voicesearch chrome://webrtc-internals chrome://webrtc-logs But it's blocked users getting to chrome://history !!! 1
kennysarmy Posted December 3, 2015 Posted December 3, 2015 Have you still got the * one on? No, I removed it.
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