Posts made by LJ

@DustinB3403 is the restore a complete re-image or just whatever has changed?

@scottalanmiller I loved Steady state. When it wasn't brought foward to Windows 7 I used a bootleg mandatory profile located on the local hard drive and that worked great. I never could get that to work consistently in Windows 10.

@LJ Restoring to a previous state nightly sounds good if I could get it to work automatically or just when needed manually.
Dustin and coliver I am guessing both of you have worked for schools or libraries before.

@DustinB3403 I am talking about windows. these are all Windows Pro standalone machines with local group policy on each machine.We don't have Active Directory and CALS for these.

@coliver I have the policies locally on every machine. Once I get one setup well I clone it. We don't have the budget or the bandwidth for Domain servers, CALS etc.

@DustinB3403 I do use the computer configuration and not the user configuration for my local group policy chrome template.

@DustinB3403 I just glanced at that. It sounds good so far but "on site trusted and capable employee" is a rare asset around my 8 libraries. I will check into to this. I had a fog server setup last year for a while but ran into a few problems before I actually put it into production.

@coliver I have the setting to remove browsing history but apparently that setting is overridden also.

Thanks for all the activity. I posted to Google chrome enterprise help this morning and haven't had a single reply.

@DustinB3403 Yes I used something like reboot/restore Rx or drive Vaccine in the past. I had to quit that because about half of our public computers are older with 80 GB hard drives. When you make changes and save that as the new default it keeps adding to a hidden file until the computer slows to a crawl.
I am gradually getting rid of those machines but still have about 30 or so to go. Perhaps after that I can try that. I keep all my images the same for now but I could change that.

@scottalanmiller I should have said extensions not apps.

@DustinB3403 I think you may be right but as I stated we don't always get a lot of co-operation and there are several distinct entities but I am readying an email to several of them.

I can see where having policies for google accounts is useful such as separate rights for teachers and students but it is causing us problems. Does anyone think I could use a login script that would log off, clear history and restore my policy restrictions? I could instruct the staff to log on and off if I could come up with something like that.

@DustinB3403 thanks. Those solutions all start with "sign in to your Google admin console". I don't have a Google admin console but there are several school districts and community colleges around here that must. In the past I don't always get a lot of co-operation.

@LJ I was able to get the user signed out and get everything straight after a few minutes but I am not always at this branch. It has very limited staff and is literally a hundred feet away from a high school campus.

@scottalanmiller Yes apparently. This was just brought to my attention yesterday but the PC I brought to the back had a search bar across the top of the desktop even with Chrome browser closed. I can't remember the name of the search bar now.

@coliver That sounds like what I need to do. What version of the template are you using? I have tried the one from chromium project and the one from Google enterprise. Please explain exactly how to do this. I must have missed it. To restate you can prevent logging into chrome but allow gmail and Gsuite? That would be perfect.

@coliver I use a ton of settings to lock down Chrome and they have been working great until this school year started. Evidently several of the local school districts are using some sort of Chrome administration and assigning students gmail accounts associated with the school.

@coliver yes but this is a public library system. We have to assume that they are logging in to do school work or view assignments etc.

@DustinB3403 Yes. Thanks.