Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Google chrome on Xenapp and Xendesktop

The default Google Chrome installer places the chrome files within the profile of the user running the installer.

This installation location is not much good in enterprise environments.

Google provides a "Chrome Enterprise Version" as an MSI which can install to c:\program files

Google Chrome Enterprise download
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/

known issues with Chrome on XenApp
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132057

I have also posted an article about the registry keys that control the default browser as these may be handy to set chrome as the default browser for users.

Appsense also provide the keys required for user personalisation within their application wizard in v8.3 onwards.  This does however save some large temp files which get upto around 15MB in the profile.
These are located in %userprofile%\Appdata\Local\Google\Chrome\User data and named safe*
There cannot be added to an exclude list as they are in a folder alongside required files.
I have created a cleanup job using the appsensespecial command as a task ended action. This works except that multiple chrome.exe are running so its not a neat solution. Moving the clean up task to a logoff action failed as it did not seem to run the cleanup. More work required.

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