Hi, welcome to Jamf and Google: better than ever.
My name is Alex Bauer. I'm a Chrome customer engineer.
I work with various enterprises and I help with Chrome adoption.
I help with any sort of technical challenges
that enterprises have when it comes with integrating Chrome in their environment
and configuring it and managing it.
And so today, we're going to talk a little bit more about the integration
between Jamf and Chrome.
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and you can also screenshot it if you need to.
And you can also find it under the resources section.
So Jamf is virtually the universal platform
for all enterprise management in the Apple ecosystem.
We know that users and admins really enjoy
the experience they get from Chrome.
And so we work together with Jamf
to improve the overall experience even more today.
We're going to talk about Jamf and Chrome on Mac,
and we're going to talk a little bit more on Jamf and Chrome on iOS,
a little bit of a roadmap for Chrome
and a little discussion in Chrome extensions.
So.
So let's talk a little bit about Jamf and Chrome on Mac.
So we listened to some of the challenges
that administrators have voiced that they had with Chrome on Mac OS.
And so based on some of that feedback we got from Jamf as well,
we have diversified the package formats
that we're offering for Chrome on Mac.
Since version 80 of Chrome, we started offering a pkg file.
That pkg file should allow
for a much simpler deployment through Jamf Pro,
as the admins don't have to go through the Jamf composer workflow
and it should be just a pretty straightforward deployment.
We also created a support article
that covers how to deploy and configure Google update policies
and push those onto your MacOS machines.
We are in the process of overhauling
the overall Google updates experience on Mac OS
and that should be coming out in the near future
sometime around next year, hopefully,
and that would bring it in alignment with all of our other platforms.
That should offer a much, much better experience for administrators.
We do have a lot of policies that administrators really like to use
when it comes to configuring Chrome on Mac OS
such as, like, homepage, location, extension settings,
manage bookmarks and safe browsing and things like that.
All of those are available on our Chrome enterprise policy page
and we've worked with Jamf on an integration
between our cloud management console for Chrome browser and Jamf Pro,
where it's easier to to deploy those policies
or those configurations onto those MacOS machines.
On our roadmap, we are looking at offering a side by side installation
of Chrome browser on MacOS.
So that should allow administrators
to run simultaneously a beta channel
and a stable channel of Chrome.
Previously, you would have to use one channel or the other
and you couldn't switch back and forth easily.
You would have to reinstall the application.
So now we're working on releasing that very, very shortly
where you'd be able to run multiple installations.
So from policy deployment, we offer now multiple ways
that you can configure the policies for Chrome browser and on MacOS.
You can configure the policies through match preference in Jamf Pro.
And we also have our integration with our account management console
where the token is deployed via Jamf Pro.
And you can follow the link from the support article
that kind of talks about how that is done
and that should provide a quick couple clicks experience
for the admins to just get the browser matched by a console.
And then the console allows you for a much easier configuration
or a build out of policies that will deploy on your browsers.
Next up is Jamf and Chrome on iOS,
so some of the things we've worked on improving the experience
for administrators on iOS are related to app config.
We've listened to the users and administrators
around the whole app config deployment
and we are planning to offer app config support for iOS Chrome
and that should allow for a subset of policies
in early preview coming up soon.
And then in the future, we're looking at adding full CBCM integration
or cloud management integration and adding more policies
to bring it to parity with the other desktop platforms
sometime around 2021.
But an early preview is coming out in the next few months
where we'll offer a few of the key or the most requested policies
that administrators have been telling us about.
Here's an example of an app config deployment or a package for Chrome on iOS.
It's nothing that administrators are not familiar with.
We're going to offer documentation
on all of the support policies and everything.
And from there, you can use the app config generator,
build your package and deploy it to Jamf Pro.
So it should be once again a much better experience
for the users on the iOS platform now as well.
Related to Chrome extensions,
a lot of users use extensions
to enhance their overall experience in Chrome
or add additional capabilities to the browser that by default,
Chrome doesn't offer.
And so we've added a lot of changes on this chapter as well.
Some of the things we're doing is we're planning to show more information,
our cloud management console related to permissions, ownership,
and version distribution, related to extensions.
And some of the other changes that we've done are related to policy changes
where we're continuing to invest in the safety of the Chrome Web store.
So, for example, we recently updated the Chrome Web store spam policy
to cover repetitive content, so duplicate extensions
that provide the exact same experience for users.
So we try to kind of limit that as well as we've offered partial rollout
and deferred publishing related to extensions.
So you can slowly ramp up the rollout of a new version
of an extension to your users.
Some other upcoming changes are related to support
for Manifest V3 extensions,
which is coming around Q4 of 2020.
We expect to offer the availability
to support a Manifest V3 extension in the store
as well as more end user controls over the extension data access
and what data the extension can access around for users,
privacy data and so forth.
As well as for Chrome browser cloud management console,
we plan to offer an application extension usage report
that gives you a lot more data around extensions.
We are also planning to offer an extension workflow,
which allows your users to request an extension,
whether to be able to install it in your environment
and then you as an admin have the capability to approve it
or deny it and so forth.
We're also adding a lot more enhancements around the security aspect for extensions
and as well as for any future that we're adding in our Chrome
browser management console, we are adding APIs
which would allow administrators to do some really cool integrations
with products such as, like, ServiceNow or whatever,
where any requests to come in on a console using the API
is a great service now could detect those new requests and so forth.
You can take a look at our support article
that talks a little bit more about any sort of these changes
and that is linked down below.
So in the current road map, what else is coming out down the pipeline for us
that would help the overall Apple ecosystem?
So as you're very familiar,
Apple has announced their desire to shift away from
Intel processors to arm on their platform. And we do plan to offer arm
based pkg and dmg packages somewhere around the Q4 of this year.
So we do want to offer as close to day one support as possible to that.
We are, as I talked a little bit earlier before,
we're working on improving the update mechanisms for MacOS
and that should be coming out in 2021.
And then for iOS, more policies will be added
throughout 2021 around through the app config deployment
and in early 2021, we'll be having CBCM integration
where through app config you'll just deploy the enrollment token
like you do on desktop platforms.
And then after that then the iOS browser itself becomes managed by our console.
Haven't talked much about that on the previous slides,
but our cloud management console allows you to set up
one set of policies for all supported platforms.
And that's where we see this integration for Chrome iOS
being very important as US administrators can configure one policy
and that would be able to be deployed on both your MacOS devices,
your iOS devices.
And if you have to manage any of the other platforms,
you'll be able to push that same policy on those platforms as well.
We do support Windows and Linux as well.
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But this is a quick cover of
what we're doing to improve
the user experience on Chrome, on all Apple platforms.
And we love working with Jamf and we're looking forward to working more with them.