Importing bookmarks into Chrome

[michaelherrick]

HR would like new employee Macs to come with Chrome bookmarks to various onboarding tasks and other important websites. Short of individually bookmarking each Mac before it goes out, what are some good suggestions for a script, package or config file that will place the bookmarks in Chrome automatically? Our current deployment process is basically just going thru the Setup Assistant, creating the individual user account, enrolling with QuickAdd.pkg, then running a policy that installs all the basic software, security settings, printers, etc etc.

[Look]

Personally I like the Master Preferences way of configuring Chrome, but you need to be very accurate with it. basically it consists of two files that control the creation of a new Chrome profile folder.

/Library/Google/Google Chrome Master Preferences
/Library/Google/Bookmarks

The only real issue the preferences file is JSON and has to be PERFECT for it to work so it can take a bit of trial and error to get ti going the first time.
If you google "Chrome Master Preferences OS X" you will find plenty of guides.

The other methods would be to make a template Chrome profile and put it in the template user folder or use FUT and FEU deployment, personally I don't like this because if a user deletes their chrome profile and reopens Chrome everything is set to default, where as with Master Preferences the new profile will be built from that instead.