Does anyone have experience in patching Google Chrome via PMS 7.1 or 7.5 in enterprise environment?
There is versioning issue, making patch management complicated.
We have enabled latest, which is CHROME-119
From SW Inventory we can see there are many versions like 65.* or 66.* as well, which Patch Assessment does not evaluate:
Issue seems to be caused by MSI installer, as explained in this article, for instance (more articles can be found).
Google Chrome offers an MSI installer useful for enterprise deployments. However, I have noticed that when I install Chrome using this MSI there is a version number mismatch.
If I open Chrome and click on "About Google Chrome" from the menu, it says version 35.0.1916.153.
However, if I open Control Panel and pull up my program list, it says Google Chrome version 65.223.153.
Based on that fact, there are version discrepancies between ARP and PMS reports.
We discovered that these 65+ versions are coming from Chrome Enterprise edition, most likely.
Since we must be very accurate in assessing and patching exact versions of Chrome, I wonder to know if any workarounds exist.