What is the Chrome and Edge extension ID for the PEGA browser extension? During the installer we are getting flagged for not having the extension set to “force-install” or “allowed”. To do either of those we need the extension ID and it’s not listed in any of the documentation.
@BrodieF16645699 By default, the ID is; lajjpilliikppcbaghjehndpfdiiphbe.
I apologize, this is for pre- Pega Browser Extension.
@ThomasSasnett Did some digging and found “iodegoagldeabbkcidchfdifcghijihb”. However after setting the ID for both the Force Extension list and Allowed Extension list, I’m still seeing an error from the installer that the GPO settings are not correct.
Update Attached are the regkey setting currently set for Force and Allow of the extension with the installer warning.
We have some documentation up for this. Below this are some links for more detail if needed but I’ll also attempt to answer it fully here.
Chrome: Pegasystems Documentation
Edge: Pegasystems Documentation
First, while you did see the warning about the missing policy, you can continue with the install without any issue. You can setup the policy before or after the Pega Browser Extension install. The warning is just a reminder!
So, you’ll first set the policy through GPO for the extension. The value might look something like this for chrome:
iodegoagldeabbkcidchfdifcghijihb;file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Pegasystems/Pega Browser Extension/BrowserExtensions/Chrome/update.xml
After setting the policy and pushing the policy to the machine, you should be able to navigate in your registry and see the change under “Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ExtensionInstallForcelist”
…and that’s it.
In your specific case, you have the entry pointing to a URL. That won’t work with the way the extension is. It requires a file path to the update.xml file. This file gets generated when the extension is selected to be installed through the installer and by default gets placed in the below directories.
Chrome: C:/Program Files (x86)/Pegasystems/Pega Browser Extension/BrowserExtensions/Chrome/
Edge: C:/Program Files (x86)/Pegasystems/Pega Browser Extension/BrowserExtensions/Edge/
Finally… double-check the extension is enabled in your browser by going to Chrome://extensions. If its not there, double-check that chrome picked up the policy and there is no errors in it by checking the Chrome://policy page and looking for the ExtensionInstallForcelist key.
@Mitchell Pointing to the update.xml in the ExtensionForce regkey did the trick. Thank you!