Managed Guest session
When organizations manage devices that will be used by multiple employees, ensuring privacy to users while allowing them to browse on the devices becomes a challenge. Mobile Device Manager supports Managed Guest sessions for Chrome OS devices, to allow multiple users to browse on a single device with privacy. For security purposes, the admin can configure how the browsing sessions will be used, by allowing or restricting specific browser functionalities.
Note: Managed Guest Session cannot be configured with other payloads in a profile. It has to be configured separately and associated with the required devices.
Supported Configurations
| Profile Specification | Description |
|---|---|
| Display name | A name for the session, that does not exceed 40 characters needs to be specified. |
| Session duration | Optionally, the admin can specify the duration of a browsing session, anytime between 1 and 1440 minutes. If this field is left blank, there will be no limit applied to browsing sessions for users. |
| Restrictions | |
| Home Button | Allow/Restrict the usage of the Home button on Chrome OS devices. |
| Mount external storage device | Restrict connecting to an external storage device by selecting the Disable option. You can also allow Read only or Read-write access when an external storage device is connected. |
| Chrome Browser settings | |
| Incognito Mode | Allow/Restrict the usage of Incognito Mode on the Google Chrome browser. |
| Pop-ups | Allow/Restrict displaying of pop-ups on Chrome. In case, you configure it as User Controlled, users can enable/disable it as per their needs. |
| URLs for which pop-ups are to be allowed (This option can be configured only when Pop-ups have been selected as 'Allow') | Specify the URLs which are permitted to display pop-ups. |
| URL's for which pop-ups are to be blocked. | Specify the URLs which are blocked from displaying pop-ups. |
| Secure Browsing | Allow/Restrict safe browsing on Google Chrome. |
| Malicious websites | Allow/Restrict users from accessing malicious websites. |
| Save History | Allow/Restrict saving browsing history. |
| Delete History | Allow/Restrict deleting browsing history. |
| Bookmark bar | Allow/Restrict using bookmarks on Google Chrome. |
| Modiy Bookmarks | Allow/Restrict modifying bookmarks on Google Chrome. |
| Browser Homepage | Select what needs to be displayed on the browser's homepage. You can choose whether to display a blank page, or a specified URL can be displayed. |
| Load URL's once the session begins: (This can be configured only if URL's are specified) | Specify the URL's to be loaded once the browsing session is started. |
| Web Content Filter | |
| Filter Type | Specify the filter based on whether URL's are to be blocklisted/allowlisted. |
| URL's to be allowlisted/blocklisted: | Specify the URLs to be allowed or blocked during the session. The user(s) will be able to browse the Internet, but not be allowed to access the specified URL's |
| Managed Bookmarks | |
| Folder name | Specify a name for folders with bookmarks created. |
| Modify Bookmarks | Allow/Restrict modifying bookmarks within the folder, on Google Chrome. |
| URL | Specify the URL for the bookmark that needs to be edited. |
| Bookmark name | Specify the display name for the bookmark. |
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