Please help, need guidance to configure GPO to allow Chrome to download certain file types from a particular domain.

Question

Good evening All,

I have been working on this all day and haven't found a way to make it work.

What I need to do is to allow users to download .msg files from a certain domain without opening up access to the files on multiple domains. I have configured MS Edge and this works perfectly. Before I setup the GPO for Edge I downloaded the latest ADMX file and configured the GPO setting 'Disable download file type extension-based warnings for specified file types on domains' under UC > Policies > Admin templates > MS Edge and entered the following setting (obviously with the domain in question) - {"file_extension": "msg", "domains": ["https://my.domain.com/"]} and after a gpupdate it works flawlessly.

I need to do this for Chrome, as Edge is Chromium based I assumed the same settings or near enough the same settings would be available, however they are not and I cant figure out where to put the setting or if it's even possible. I have downloaded the latest ADMX files for Chrome

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi there,

After creating the GPO try the following steps.
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Google/Google Chrome (if you are not able to navigate to Google under Administrative Templates, then you need to add the ADMX for Google and other browsers.

You must enable and configure both policies in order for the gpo to work.

1. List of file types that should be automatically opened on download
2. URLs where AutoOpenFileTypes can apply.

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