[1709, fcu] UE-V - Google Chrome

[Patrick]

I' know i've posted about this before and mentioned it in other threads, but i'm really at at loss with this. I've set up UE-V and it appears to be working correctly. If i login on one machine and set the font in notepad, set it, log off then log in on the other machine i can see the font setting as applied. I can also so the folders on the server are creating for things like "DesktopSettings" (doesn't seem to change much) and "Notepad"etc.. I have a chrome XML i pinched off the internet and placed it into my templates folder on my file server. I ran "get-uevconfiguration" and i can see that it is pointing towards the templates share. Also if i do "get-uevtemplate" the chrome template is there. But no folder in the settings on the file server exists or gets created. No favorites are saved. I'm at a loss and i'm desperate to get it working as we are using local profiles in the windows 10 project, which other than this issue is working perfectly for us.

 

Here is my XML:

 

GoogleChrome GoogleChrome 1 chrome.exe LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Preferences LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data First Run LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Continue LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Bookmarks LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Cookies LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Cookies-journal LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default History LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default History-journal LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Last Session LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Last Tabs LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Login Data LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Login Data-journal LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Shortcuts LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Shortcuts-journal LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Visited Links LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Web Data LOCALAPPDATA Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Web Data-journal

 

Anyone any clues as what to try next? At a loss.

[Arthur]

Anyone any clues as what to try next? At a loss.

Could it be this bug?

 

https://uev.uservoice.com/forums/280428-microsoft-user-experience-virtualization/suggestions/31599052-bug-in-1703-ue-v-not-able-to-use-syncprovider-fo

 

Here is my XML

XML reformatted for legibility.

 

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/UserExperienceVirtualization/2012/SettingsLocationTemplate">
   GoogleChrome
   GoogleChrome
   1
   
       
           chrome.exe
       
   
   
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Preferences
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data
           First Run
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Continue
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Bookmarks
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Cookies
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Cookies-journal
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           History
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           History-journal
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Last Session
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Last Tabs
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Login Data
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Login Data-journal
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Shortcuts
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Shortcuts-journal
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Visited Links
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Web Data
       
       
           
               LOCALAPPDATA
           
           Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
           Web Data-journal
       
   

[Patrick]

Ok, so for anyone wondering that XML template actually works Ok. The issue was caused because i was chopping and changing XMLs a lot and i thought the client machines picked up these XML files at startup, which isn't the case. They actually have a scheduled task that runs every 24 hours! Which i run manually instead after any changes. So with that template the machines save changes back to the server.

 

Another issue i have is that it doesn't seem to be saving changes over the Wifi but that could be unrelated to UEV.

[Patrick]

Need to bump this as it's relevant and i'm curious. I didn't find UEV to be 100% reliable for chrome and a little slow at picking up changes, but this could be an error with my configuration. I noticed that in chrome policy options i can configure chrome to have a roaming profile, but you can also configure it to store the profile in a specified folder such as my documents. This can be a possible solution for local profiles roaming just chrome data, everything else is either redirected or handled by UEV. The policy creates a small profile.pb file in the specified folder. This will roam settings such as accounts, passwords and bookmarks. I've tested it on a Windows 7 network and it seemed to work Ok with local profiles, albeit it was a small/quick test. Has anyone been using this across the school? I'm curious about file size and performance impact on chrome starting up.

[skell]

Does this XML save passwords?