Google content sync question

[Oaktech]

Apologies for this being a very specific scenario...

 

One of my schools uses internal roaming profiles. They have a GPO policy set to:

 

'Enable the creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data'

 

Which according to Google's documentation for GPO:

 'This policy should not be enabled when RoamingProfileSupportEnabled policy is set to enabled as that feature shares the same client side functionality. The Google-hosted synchronization is disabled in this case completely.'

breaks the ability for the data to be cloud synced, leaving it hosted locally.

 

We've had a couple of issues with roaming profiles recently where I have had to nuke the profile from orbit and the users have lost an extensive collection of passwords, bookmarks and open tabs that we all though were being cloud synced.

 

I'd like to remove the original policy for creation of roaming data copies but I can't find anywhere documentation of what happens to data that has already been added to the local roaming profile sync.

 

Anyone know what the behaviour might be?

[Sanchez]

Played around with this a while back, IIRC the data remains in the roaming profile location but is not accessed by Chrome. Essentially a blank slate for the user.

[Oaktech]

Played around with this a while back, IIRC the data remains in the roaming profile location but is not accessed by Chrome. Essentially a blank slate for the user.

 

Right... So going to have to instruct them to export passwords from roaming copy first, then import into google account, then I can turn off the roaming copy.

 

Ta.