Software Deployment

Have you tried installing it with the property "NOGOOGLEUPDATING=1"? That worked for me, but I'm not sure what Chrome version I used.

The auto updates can be disabled via registry.

Create a transform with the registry change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update
Add a new DWORD value named DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue and set it to 1 to disable automatic updates.

Thanks for your replies. I have added:

Properties:

NOGOOGLEUPDATING=1

NOGOOGLEUPDATPING=1

Also added the following 2 reg keys to disable the 2 services:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\gupdate DWORD value named Start with value of 4

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\gupdatem DWORD value names Strat with value of 4

Even though these disable the services, when the task schedule runs it re-enables the service.

To disable the Task Schedule I have added the following:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update new DWORD value DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue and set it to 1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update new DWORD value named UpdateDefault and set it to 1

I found without the last registry key (UpdateDefault and set it to 1) it didn't disable updates.

This seems to have worked but I'm still testing... The next test wil lbe to delete c:\program files(x86)Google\Update\googleupdate.exe. The reason I want to try this is because the task scheduler still runs every hour and tries to update, but as updates are disabled it doesn't appear to be successfull. I would rather the task schedule not run every hour.

Thanks again for your replies.

Instead of deleting googleupdate.exe I just created a GPO to delete the task schedule and also 2 GPO's to disable the 2 services.

So the MSI takes care of disabling the updates, and then the policies take care of deleting\modifying 'Task Schedule' and 'Services'.

Cheers.

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