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2 years ago

Hello All, I’m trying to set the homepage on our Mac’s running chrome as our default browser, but having issues.

Has anyone tried doing this? Since Hexnode can’t send a file to a remote machine. I originally wanted to use the CloudManagementEnrollmentToken for our Google workspace account and send that to our machines.
So, I have been looking at a custon config using a .mobileconfig file. This file is XML and I just want to set the homepage. So, I have…
<key>HomepageLocation</key>
<string>https://website.com/</string>
Which is from google but I have to wrap it in other XML code and this is what I don’t have.
Anyone trying to do anything similar?

Thanks
Jonathon

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chloe_edison

Hexnode Expert

2 years ago

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Hello @jonathon, thank you for reaching out to us.

In order to set the homepage in Google Chrome, there are three Chrome policies that you need to configure:

ShowHomeButton – This policy has to be enabled so that the home button is displayed in the toolbar.
HomepageLocation – The URL that the home button must lead to has to be specified.
HomepageIsNewPage – If this policy is enabled, the home button will lead to a New Tab page, irrespective of whether a homepage URL has been specified. Hence this policy has to be disabled.

Execute the XML code given below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> 
<plist version="1.0"> 
<dict> 
   <key>PayloadContent</key> 
   <array> 
      <dict> 
         <key>HomepageLocation</key> 
         <string>www.hexnode.com</string> 
         <key>PayloadDisplayName</key> 
         <string>Google Chrome</string> 
         <key>PayloadIdentifier</key> 
         <string>com.github.erikberglund.ProfileCreator.EEBF9178-1829-400F-A4ED-B4C00FD2253F.com.google.Chrome.CA84CC7C-B77A-404E-AF48-5997575D0C86</string> 
         <key>PayloadOrganization</key> 
         <string></string> 
         <key>PayloadType</key> 
         <string>com.google.Chrome</string> 
         <key>PayloadUUID</key> 
         <string>CA84CC7C-B77A-404E-AF48-5997575D0C86</string> 
         <key>PayloadVersion</key> 
         <integer>1</integer> 
         <key>ShowHomeButton</key> 
         <true></true> 
         <key>HomepageIsNewTabPage</key> 
         <false></false> 
      </dict> 
   </array> 
   <key>PayloadDisplayName</key> 
   <string>chrome</string> 
   <key>PayloadIdentifier</key> 
   <string>com.github.erikberglund.ProfileCreator.EEBF9178-1829-400F-A4ED-B4C00FD2253F</string> 
   <key>PayloadOrganization</key> 
   <string>ProfileCreator</string> 
   <key>PayloadScope</key> 
   <string>User</string> 
   <key>PayloadType</key> 
   <string>Configuration</string> 
   <key>PayloadUUID</key> 
   <string>EEBF9178-1829-400F-A4ED-B4C00FD2253F</string> 
   <key>PayloadVersion</key> 
   <integer>1</integer> 
</dict> 
</plist>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>PayloadContent</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>HomepageLocation</key>

<string>www.hexnode.com</string>

<key>PayloadDisplayName</key>

<string>Google Chrome</string>

<key>PayloadIdentifier</key>

<string>com.github.erikberglund.ProfileCreator.EEBF9178-1829-400F-A4ED-B4C00FD2253F.com.google.Chrome.CA84CC7C-B77A-404E-AF48-5997575D0C86</string>

<key>PayloadOrganization</key>

<key>PayloadType</key>

<string>com.google.Chrome</string>

<key>PayloadUUID</key>

<key>PayloadVersion</key>

<key>ShowHomeButton</key>

<key>HomepageIsNewTabPage</key>

</dict>

</array>

<key>PayloadDisplayName</key>

<string>chrome</string>

<key>PayloadIdentifier</key>

<string>com.github.erikberglund.ProfileCreator.EEBF9178-1829-400F-A4ED-B4C00FD2253F</string>

<key>PayloadOrganization</key>

<string>ProfileCreator</string>

<key>PayloadScope</key>

<key>PayloadType</key>

<string>Configuration</string>

<key>PayloadUUID</key>

<key>PayloadVersion</key>

</dict>

</plist>

In the code, substitute ‘www.hexnode.com’ with the URL of your choice.

You can use the Deploy Custom Configuration policy to execute the XML code from the Hexnode UEM portal.
Once the policy is executed, the custom profile will be added to your device, and the changes will be reflected when you open Google Chrome.

Hope this helps with your query.

Chloe Edison,
Hexnode UEM

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jonathon

Participant

2 years ago

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Ok, well I have figured this out. I have now got a zsh script for our Mac’s and a Powershell script for our PC’s. I then execute a custom script on the machines. Not done this before but simple really.

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chloe_edison

Hexnode Expert

2 years ago

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Hello @Jonathan, we’re glad you were able to set the homepage by executing custom scripts. It really is quite simple, isn’t it!
Do check out our sample script repository too. You’ll find a bunch of custom scripts that could come in handy any time, for both macOS and Windows devices.

Regards,
Chloe Edison
Hexnode UEM