Configure Chrome Policy HomePageLocation Using Intune Configuration Profile On Windows 10

Let’s try to learn how to configure chrome HomePageLocation using Intune configuration profiles on Windows 10. This post helps to set up Home Page location for chrome browser. First of all, you need to complete the Chrome ADMX injection process explained in the previous blog post.

Create Chrome HomePageLocation Policy

Login to Endpoint.Microsoft.com
Navigate to Devices – Configuration profiles
Select the Chrome ADMX Profile already created
Click on the Properties tab.
Click on the EDIT button under Configuration Settings.

Chrome Policy HomePageLocation using Intune

OMA-URI to Set HomePageLocation for Chrome Browse

Click on Add button to add Configuration Settings – OMA-URI for HomePageLocation.
Now, to proceed further, you need to find out the OMA-URI to enable HomePageLocation for the Chrome browser.
Check documentation to find out OMA-URI- Google Chrome documentation

Name Chrome – Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup/HomepageLocation
Description – Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup/HomepageLocation
OMA-URI – ./Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup/HomepageLocation
Data type – String
Value – Let’s find out the String value for HomepageLocation

Let’s break down the value for string:

Data id = “HomePageLocation”
Value (URL for home page) = “http://HTMDForum.com”

NOTE – Google documentation has a spreadsheet which contains examples for HomPageLocation string value. More details – Common Chrome Browser policies for Microsoft Intune.

<enabled/> <data id="HomepageLocation" value="http://HTMDForum.com"/>

Click on Add and Review + Save button to continue.

List Chrome Browser Policies to set Homa Page properly

NOTE! – I have noticed that the following combination of policies for the Chrome browser. We have similar policies for Google Chrome:

HomepageIsNewTabPage – Disabled – https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=HomepageIsNewTabPage
HomepageLocation – Enable – https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=HomepageLocation
NewTabPageLocation – Disabled – https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=NewTabPageLocation
RestoreOnStartup – Enabled (URL Details) – https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=RestoreOnStartup ()
RestoreOnStartupURLs – Enabled (Open a list of URLs)- https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=RestoreOnStartupURLs
ShowHomeButton – Enabled – https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=ShowHomeButton

NOTE! – I have noticed that the following combination of policies (Edge – Chromium) works fine.

Configure the home page URL – Enabled
Configure the new tab page URL – Disabled
Show Home button on toolbar – Enabled
Set the new tab page as the home page – Disabled
Sites to open when the browser starts – Enabled
Action to take on startup – Enabled

Results – Troubleshooting

You can verify whether the Chrome policy to configure HomePageLocation got applied on Windows 10 devices. The following information might help you to troubleshoot the issue related to HomePageLocation policy configuration on Windows 10 devices.

Event Logs Chrome HomePageLocation 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: (HomepageLocation) in Area (Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup).

MDM PolicyManager: Set policy string, Policy: (HomepageLocation), Area: (Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup), EnrollmentID requesting merge: (AAB267BF-EBF2-4649-822C-74511A4CC253), Current User: (Device), String: (<enabled/> <data id="HomepageLocation" value="http://HTMDForum.com"/>), Enrollment Type: (0x6), Scope: (0x0).

Deploy Chrome Policy HomePageLocation using Intune

Registry Entries

Registry Entries
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\AdmxDefault\D8D5A74A-020E-40F2-BA69-086EDDDD9F08\Chrome~Policy~googlechrome~Startup\ShowHomeButton