Brand Chrome default browser (Windows 10)

As an ambassador, yous may need to configure Chrome equally the default browser on computers in your domain. You must complete these steps to ready Chrome as the default browser on domain-joined computers running Microsoft Windows x and higher up.

On Windows 10 and in a higher place

Footstep 1: Create a default awarding association XML file (sampled provided)

The default application association file is an XML file that assembly a file type with an awarding. For case, if you associate .html or .htm files with the Chrome application, and then by default Chrome is launched each time the user opens a html or htm file.

For domain-joined computers, yous create a single shared XML file that automatically sets Chrome as the default browser awarding. You must place this file in a shared binder, on your server, that all of the domain-joined computers can access.

Note: If Chrome is non installed on the target computer, the file associations are not applied and users must choose an application when they open a link (http or https) or file (html or htm).

Download the default application clan file

It is possible to have diverse Chrome channels installed side-past-side in Windows. Below are example xml files showing how to ready a specific Chrome channel as the default browser to open html, htm, http and https files or links.

Chrome Stable example (chromedefault.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-viii"?>
<DefaultAssociations>
<Clan Identifier=".htm" ProgId="ChromeHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome" />
<Clan Identifier=".html" ProgId="ChromeHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome" />
<Association Identifier="http" ProgId="ChromeHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome" />
<Clan Identifier="https" ProgId="ChromeHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome" />
</DefaultAssociations>

Chrome Beta example ( chromedefault.xml):

<?xml version="one.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DefaultAssociations>
<Clan Identifier=".htm" ProgId="ChromeBHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Beta" />
<Clan Identifier=".html" ProgId="ChromeBHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Beta" />
<Association Identifier="http" ProgId="ChromeBHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Beta" />
<Clan Identifier="https" ProgId="ChromeBHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Beta" />
</DefaultAssociations>

Chrome Dev case ( chromedefault.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DefaultAssociations>
<Association Identifier=".htm" ProgId="ChromeDHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Dev" />
<Clan Identifier=".html" ProgId="ChromeDHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Dev" />
<Association Identifier="http" ProgId="ChromeDHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Dev" />
<Association Identifier="https" ProgId="ChromeDHTML" ApplicationName="Google Chrome Dev" />
</DefaultAssociations>

Annotation:The default association policy is fix at each login. The user tin can change an association subsequently they login, but the alter applies to that login session only. The clan will be reset to the policy at the adjacent login.

Step 2: Create a Group Policy Object

The Group Policy Management console lets you create and manage Group Policy Objects (GPO) for your domain. These GPOs control the policies that are practical to all your domain-linked computers. Subsequently yous create the GPO, you use security filtering to utilize it to the computers in your domain.

In the following example, you lot create a GPO (Set Chrome as default browser) and employ information technology to computers in the chromeforwork.com domain.

  1. Open up the Group Policy Management Console. Go to Start > All programs > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management.
  2. In the navigation pane, go to Grouping Policy Management > Domains.
  3. In the navigation pane, right-click on the chromeforwork.com domain, and click Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here...
  4. Blazon the name of the new GPO (in our example, the name is Set Chrome as default browser) and click OK.

  5. In the navigation pane, get to Grouping Policy Direction > Domains > chromeforwork.com > Group Policy Objects and select Gear up Chrome as default browser.

  6. In the Security Filtering pane, click Add.
  7. In the Select User, Computer, or Grouping window, blazon the name of the object you want to add, click Cheque Names (to verify the name you entered), and click OK.

    You tin type Domain Computers to add all workstations and servers joined to this domain (as in the example beneath) or you can specify a different group of computers.

  8. The GPO now applies to all domain-linked computers.

Step 3: Set a default associations configuration file

To set the default associations configuration file for domain-linked computers, you edit the related GPO on your windows server.

  1. Open up the Grouping Policy Management Panel.

    Go to Start > All programs > Authoritative Tools > Group Policy Management.

  2. In the navigation pane, click Group Policy Management > Domains > chromeforwork.com.
  3. Click the Linked Grouping Policy Objects tab to view all GPOs for this domain.
  4. Right-click on the GPO you lot desire to select, and click Edit to open the Group Policy Management Editor.

    In this example, right-click on Set Chrome as default browser.

  5. In the Group Policy Management Editor, go to Reckoner Configuration > Policies > Administrative Template > Windows Components > File Explorer, and double-click Prepare a default associations configuration file.

  6. In the Set a default associations configuration file window, select the Enabled option.

  7. In the Options box, enter the location of your default application clan XML file.

    This is the XML file that associates file types (such as .htm, .html, http, and https) with the Chrome application. This can exist the Google provided sample XML file or 1 yous created yourself.

Notation: The file can't be a local file on the server. It must exist at a location that is attainable to every computer in the domain.

Stride 4: Verify your configuration

On your target computers (that is, the Agile Directory domain-joined computers running Windows 10), y'all can verify that the GPO you created has been practical, and that the computer is using Chrome as the default browser.

The GPO is applied automatically when the policy is refreshed by the Windows Client, or you tin can run the GPUpdate.exe /force control to forcefulness a transmission refresh at any time.

Annotation: Later on the policy is downloaded and applied, the estimator must be rebooted in gild for the policy to take outcome.

  1. On a Windows Client, go to Windows > System32. Right-click rsop.msc and select run as administrator.
  2. Authenticate with ambassador credentials and click Yes.
  3. Become to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > File Explorer to confirm that Set up a default associations configuration file is available.

  4. Open the Set a default associations configuration file to confirm that the setting is enabled and that the XML file location is right.

  5. When Chrome is ready every bit the default browser, then all files with htm and html extensions utilize the Chrome icon.

Related topics

More details from Microsoft TechNet:

  • Generate default application associations files
  • Use a group policy to set the default browser

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