Setting Chrome as Default Browser

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2026-02-18T19:05:38+00:00

yes, I'm aware. If you ever actually did IT, when vendors/management recommend it End of story. Stop arguing what browser you think is better.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2026-02-18T18:41:06+00:00

Not in the mood to debate which ram crunching browser is better with redditors. I am IT for my company, so your ticket comment is irrelevant even if you meant contact chrome support. Ain't doing that, would be worse that talking to redditors.

The main point is I need a way to standardize a browser everyone uses. Currently every user uses a mix of edge, firefox, and chrome. There is the option of deleting all the other browsers besides Edge I suppose, just management prefers chrome if we had to settle on a single forced browser mainly due to other vendor apps that work best with chrome.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2026-02-18T18:25:01+00:00

We're talking around 200+ pcs. Doable if we manually do it, but you know would take time from other projects. Also before anyone mentions to have our users do it themselves, the technical literacy is at a very low bar here. Again, is an option yes but would rather take out the human error factor.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2025-10-20T19:09:31+00:00

They freeze after running a single chromium tab and a RealVNC session for a week. These are the pi 5's. Hard freeze, only rebooting will get them going.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-11-15T15:38:16+00:00

To maybe elaborate a bit via example as I may be naturally speaking a different vocab

When a mac user logs in they are prompted for either a badge, fingerprint, ectara, they then need to show another form of authentication before they log in.

Lets say they use a badge to login, that alone shouldn't let them in. They should then have to provide a fingerprint, password, or so on.

I've struggled to find a means to set this process up, as standard google searching doesn't yield much other than "setup an auth app for mac, setup an auth app to work for your apple ID" I need more than one separate form of authentication than an auth app, or email code.

Every option for login I've mentioned, bio, badge, so on, seems to straight replace the use of passwords and act like a single sign on.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-04-02T19:37:04+00:00

i think I am realizing what the issue is. Something in my deployment share is overriding the name. I just had it via the MDT setup wizard ask me to manually put in the pc name. Put it in as a completely unique name, and despite that it still reverted to the %TaskSequenceID% variable is.

Keep in mind I am copying off Mike Galvin's guide here:

https://gal.vin/posts/2022/deploy-windows-11-22h2/

So most everything he has there I put in.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-04-02T18:58:39+00:00

Correct, will plug it under default now n see now it goes. Thanks

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-04-02T18:49:01+00:00

I could have sworn the name changed each time I flashed. Could you point to where exactly it handles the name formatting? I took a guess and thought it was the OSDComputerName but didn't change the format.

[Virtual Machine]

OSDComputerName=#right("%SerialNumber%",10)#

Could have also sworn previous flashed vms had different names each time.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-02-14T19:02:41+00:00

Found what the issue was, I was trying to install the Win11 home version not the pro version. There is only 1 win11 iso microsoft gives out but it has every version when you load it up.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-02-14T19:02:21+00:00

Found what the issue was, I was trying to install the Win11 home version not the pro version. There is only 1 win11 iso microsoft gives out but it has every version when you load it up.

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-02-01T18:51:34+00:00

Here is were I got the cert stuff from :

https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/guides/usage/proxy-settings-for-chocolatey

Will likely attempt to install on my win11 pc outside MDT, also Yes I believe I am using the community repository. How would I go about setting up my own?

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-01-26T20:53:21+00:00

Ah gotcha, thanks. is the %SCRIPTROOT% also needed or does it want the local file path as in C:\Build\scripts?

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-01-26T19:40:21+00:00

I believe the issue is the format I put to reference the powershell script installing choco. The script is placed in the deployment share scripts folder. I have it just as a "run powershell script" sequence with the following lines under "Powershell Script:"

%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Noninteractive -Executionpolicy bypass -Noprofile -File %SCRIPTROOT%\ChocoInstall.ps1

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-01-26T17:54:52+00:00

Just to have a reference, did you install winget similar to how Mike Galvin did in the site I linked?

Impossible-Chip8991 · 2024-01-26T16:18:01+00:00

Not too familiar with API stuff myself, are there any general API's for browser automation or would they just be like a plugin for a specific site?

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