When we announced that Chrome is now used by over 120 million users and showed off some of its latest features last week, we saw a tremendous amount of excitement from both users and businesses. Many businesses asked how they can get the benefits of increased security, speed and the modern browser capabilities that Chrome offers with the configurability and customizations they need.
The good news is that businesses don’t need to wait any longer to deploy Google Chrome. Today, we’re announcing that Chrome offers controls that enable IT administrators to easily configure and deploy the browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux according to their business requirements. We’ve created an MSI installer that enables businesses who use standard deployment tools to install Chrome for all their managed users. We’ve also added support for managed group policy with a list of policies and a set of templates that allow administrators to easily customize browser settings to manage security and privacy. For your users that need access to older web applications not yet qualified for Chrome, we also added group policy support to Google Chrome Frame, an Internet Explorer (TM) plug-in that provides Chrome-quality rendering for the broader Web, while defaulting to host rendering for any web applications that still require IE.
By deploying Google Chrome, organizations can take advantage of improved security and web application performance without needing to upgrade other expensive software licenses or buy new hardware. Deploying Google Chrome also gives users access to productivity-enhancing HTML5 web applications. Since Google Chrome is the same as the browser on Chrome OS, admins considering Chrome OS for their organizations can start testing their mission-critical web applications by deploying the Google Chrome browser.
Support for these new administrative features is available to Google Apps for Business admins by phone and email as part of their Apps deployment. For those who are not Google Apps for Business customers, we’ve also posted documentation to assist administrators deploying Chrome inside their organization.
Over the past few months, we’ve worked to test Chrome with admins in a diverse set of large organizations interested in moving to a more secure, modern browser. Organizations such as Vanguard, Boise State University, and Procter & Gamble (and Google!) have already successfully deployed Chrome to thousands of users. They’ve provided us with excellent feedback, and we’re continuing to work on the next set of features that they’ve requested.
What we’ve built is just the start of what we’d like to offer businesses with Google Chrome. We’re excited by the features built so far, and we’re working hard on polishing the next set of policies that will make Google Chrome even more customizable and useful to users in the future. Please give the new features a try and let us know what you think!
15 comments:
This is not Enterprise ready for one blaring problem: Print Setup. The ability to remove headers and change margins is such a critical feature of enterprises that I cannot accept that you would mark this as enterprise ready.
This applies for scholastic institutions as well; what educator would accept a document with a URL that spans the entire header and footer? This is unacceptable.
120 million is a big number! Most of my blogs show IE and Firefox as the main broswers. What is the % market share of Google Chrome now.
Congratulations!
Long life to Chrome OS!!!!
Just took a look, and it's great. Only issue is, the manifest for OS X is only set to allow "Always". It would be good if they also supported "Once" and "Often" as sometimes you just want to set the default home page, but allow users to change it if they want.
This is great. However Chrome still does not run on Windows Server, including Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services) and Citrix XenApp.
Finally!!
I see no mention about Windows Server neither here or on the Docs. Is Chrome compatible now with Terminal Services environments? (That'd be awesome!!)
This is great, but I would also like to be able to specify a theme for the browser.
Still doesn't work with Google Apps Desktop. That's the main reason I wanted to install Chrome on our Terminal Server and lab computers. Until that's fixed, I don't think many Google Apps for Education customers will be adopting Chrome.
Has anyone tried to install this on a RDS machine? It's stalling on "Please wait while the application is preparing for the first use".
Chrome is at 12% in my university and growing well done
Will: They are experimenting with a print preview page currently. It's not working yet, but I imagine it may become a feature in the March release.
Gabe
When they say group policy, do they mean exisiting microsoft environment group policy or a google product that can provide the same functionality? I'm asking because the only way many organizations would even consider something like this would be if it could plug in to its 100% existing (and accepted via legal teams/security teams) Group Policy and Security settings.
@Najtan please see the following article which indicates how to get around this issue. To summarize, create a new DWORD called Enable and set it to 0 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\TSAppSrv\TSMSI\Enable.
http://projectdream.org/wordpress/2010/05/07/ibm-i-access-7-1-installation-hangs-indefinitively-with-a-windows-installer-coordinator-window/
120 millions... and 100 millions because of your stupid integration in other software installations. So they have about 20 million active users i think. Same thing with that damn awful google toolbar, just because most users are to stupid to read from a screen. Well done... The main things you're doing great (Android, Search Engine and some other web services), but keep away from coding real applications or get MUCH better.
No comment at your Chrome OS plans... lets concentrate on your other projects.
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