{"id":41877,"date":"2021-03-10T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=3a89726d82945234d08816db5276ff31"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:59:07","slug":"chrome-os-gets-enterprise-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/chrome-os-gets-enterprise-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome OS gets enterprise overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/zach-marzouk\">Zach Marzouk<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">10 Mar, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p>Google has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/chrome-enterprise\/10thbirthday-chromeos-enterprise\" >announced<\/a>\u00a0a number of new features for Chrome OS to mark the operating system&#8217;s 10th birthday,\u00a0including some new ones for enterprise users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, businesses can download the Chrome OS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chromeenterprise.google\/os\/readiness\/\" >Readiness Tool<\/a>\u00a0to help them identify which Windows devices in their organisation are ready to switch fully to Chrome OS and which need support from VDI or Parallels Desktop.<\/p>\n<p><!--wysiwyg_see-related_plugin--><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a free, completely private and customisable tool that allows enterprises to see if apps are compatible or whether they are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/cloud\/32936\/are-you-really-ready-for-the-cloud\" >cloud-ready<\/a>\u00a0or not.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations can also now configure over 500 policies in the Google Admin console. New policies have been added over the past year including those affecting new security, updates, accessibility, network file sharing and more. Importantly, all policies default to a Google recommended setting ensuring that users only have to set up the ones they need.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, to help enterprises configure their policies at scale, Chrome is launching the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/chrome\/policy\" >Chrome Policy API<\/a>. This allows user and printer settings to be managed via an API and enables users to configure settings through a script or command line. Chrome is looking to expand this in the future so it also applies to apps, extensions and device settings too.<\/p>\n<p>These new additions come on top of other features announced including the Phone Hub, where users can respond to their phone messages, check its battery life and even locate it from their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/hardware\/laptops\/358471\/chromebook-demand-through-the-roof-with-287-growth\" >Chromebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months, the company plans to release \u201cNearby share\u201d, a feature that allows users to securely share files between a Chromebook and other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/software\/video-conferencing\/358643\/google-introduces-new-video-tools-for-meet-chrome-os\" >Chrome OS<\/a>\u00a0or Android devices without needing to share contact details.<\/p>\n<p>These new features come after Google announced in December it was teaming up with other tech giants such as Intel and Dell to form the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business-strategy\/collaboration\/358095\/google-intel-zoom-and-others-form-modern-computing-alliance\" >Modern Computing Alliance<\/a>. The group hopes to foster greater collaboration and integration between their different systems. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Zach Marzouk<\/p>\n<p>        10 Mar, 2021    <\/p>\n<p>      Google has\u00a0announced\u00a0a number of new features for Chrome OS to mark the operating system&#8217;s 10th birthday,\u00a0including some new ones for enterprise users.\u00a0<br \/>\nStarting today, businesses can download t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41878,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41877\/revisions\/41878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}