Let’s how to Deploy Chrome ShowHomeButton enable Policy Using Intune. First of all, you need to complete the Chrome ADMX injection process explained in the previous blog post.
Create Chrome ShowHomeButton Policy
- Login to Endpoint.Microsoft.com
- Navigate to Devices – Configuration profiles
- Click on +Create Profile
- Select Platform – Windows 10 and Later
- Select Profile – Custom
- Click on Create
- Enter the Name – Chrome – ADMX – HomepageButton
- Enter the Description – Chrome – ADMX – HomepageButton
- Click on Next
- Click on Add button to add Configuration Settings – OMA-URI for ShowHomeButton.
OMA-URI to Enable ShowHomeButton for Chrome Browser
- Now, to proceed further, you need to find out the OMA-URI to enable ShowHomeButton for the Chrome browser.
- Google Chrome documentation provides this information.
NOTE – The following OMA-URI has some formatting issue when you copy from Google documentation to Intune Portal or Notepad. Don’t use this OMA-URI
Wrong ❌❌❌ OMA-URIs ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Chrome~Policy~googlechrome*~Startup*/ShowHomeButton ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/GoogleChrome~Policy~googlechrome/ShowHomeButton
Let’s find the correct OMA-URI. To find out you need to refer back to the ADMX Injection post registry entry – Check the following registry entries to find out the actual structure. You can get this registry entry details from any of the Windows 10 devices which has Google Chrome ADMX installed or applied.
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\AdmxDefault
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\AdmxDefault\AAB267BF-EBF2-4649-822C-74511A4CC253\Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup\ShowHomeButton
NOTE! – The above highlighted is the actual structure of the policy. Remember to change \ with /
✅✅✅Correct OMA-URI ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup/ShowHomeButton
- Enter the Name – Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup/ShowHomeButton
- Enter the Description – ShowHomeButton
- Enter OMA-URI Value – ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup/ShowHomeButton
- Select Data type – String
- Enter the following value in the VALUE section.
<enabled/>
- Click on Add and Next button to continue.
Scope Assignment
- Select the Scope (Tags)
- Click +Add
- Select Tags -> Test
- Click on Select
- Click OK
- On the Assignments page.
- Click on + Select Groups to Include.
- Search for Azure AD Device Group which you want to enable Chrome ShowHomeButton.
- Click on the group – HTMD Windows Devices.
- Click on the Select button.
- Click on the Next button to continue.
- Applicability Rules – Specify how to apply this profile within an assigned group. Intune will only apply the profile to devices that meet the combined criteria of these rules.
- Click on Create button to complete the deployment of Chrome ADMX policies.
Results – Troubleshooting – Chrome ShowHomeButton Enable
You can verify whether the Chrome policy to enable ShowHomeButton got applied on Windows 10 devices. The following information might help you to troubleshoot the issue related to ShowHomeButton on Windows 10 devices.
Intune Portal
- Intune Portal Results
Event Logs Chrome ShowHomeButton Policy
- Windows 10 Event Logs – Microsoft-Windows-DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider/Admin
MDM PolicyManager: Dedicated non-cached delayed notification (WNF): (0xA3BC0875, 0xD891E2A) published for Policy: (ShowHomeButton) in Area (Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup). MDM PolicyManager: Set policy string, Policy: (ShowHomeButton), Area: (Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup), EnrollmentID requesting merge: (D8D5A74A-020E-40F2-BA69-086EDDDD9F08), Current User: (Device), String: (), Enrollment Type: (0x0), Scope: (0x0).
Registry Entries
- Registry Entries
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\AdmxDefault\D8D5A74A-020E-40F2-BA69-086EDDDD9F08\Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup\ShowHomeButton
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
Chrome Browser
- chrome://settings/?search=home
- chrome://policy/
Video Recording
Resources
- Google Chrome Policies ShowHomeButton
- Deploy Chrome ADMX Policies using Intune | ADMX Injection Process on Windows 10
I was able to get the Home button to show up using your article and I can’t thank you enough. The issue I’m facing now is that the Home button doesn’t take you to the homepage, it takes you to the “new tab” page, which in most cases is the default Google page. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get the Home button to default to our homepage. Just like your screenshot, the “New Tab page” checkbox is checked and I need to get the “custom web address” checked instead. The custom address is correct via policy and if I manually check it, everything works great. Thanks again.
Thanks for the explanation.
There is an error about correcting the wrong OMA-URI :
this is ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/GoogleChrome~Policy~Startup/ShowHomeButton
and not ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/GoogleChrome~Policy~googlechrome/ShowHomeButton