Windows PowerShell re-renders progress on every buffer, so a 120 MB download
spends most of its time drawing a bar rather than transferring - minutes for
what should be seconds, and indistinguishable from a stall while you watch the
byte count crawl.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Setup asked for a token that is the same on every machine - a token is reusable
and enrols any number of browsers - so it is a default in both scripts now and
step 7 is a plain yes/no. It is a modest secret: it lets someone enrol their own
browser into the org and nothing more, and rotating it is a console click and a
one-line change.
Both scripts also install Chrome if it is absent, from Google's enterprise MSI
and the official .deb, since enrolling a browser that is not there writes a
token nothing reads. Chromium is refused rather than substituted: no cloud
management, so it could never be enrolled - and on ARM, where Chrome is not
published at all, the Linux script says so instead of installing something that
cannot do the job.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both setup scripts ended by telling you to load the folder unpacked, which is
the one install that cannot update itself - and the policy install they moved
to next does nothing on an unmanaged machine. Enrolment is the step that
actually matters: with it, the extension arrives from the Admin console already
force-installed, and there is nothing else to configure on the box.
So step 7 now asks for an enrolment token instead. The Windows script elevates
itself for it - the token is machine-scoped, and that is the only UAC prompt in
the whole install.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Enrolling is what lifts the off-store restriction without joining a domain, and
it is one machine-scoped token in both places Chrome looks: HKLM on Windows, a
file under /etc/opt/chrome/policies/enrollment on Linux. Both scripts take
--remove, and both say plainly that removing the token locally does not release
the seat in the Admin console.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
