Do you really need to wipe the full application? Depending on why you're doing that you may be able to just use clearappcache instead of wipeapplication which will likely leave the app config in tact.

How a particular app behaves when its managed configuration parameters get changed with an MDM solution depends solely on the app codes/design and thus corresponding documentation or technical support team of the app of interest should be consulted to ACCURATELY understand the latest expected behaviour, which may be changed between different versions/releases of the same app.

MobiControl "wipeapplication" script command is for cleaning up ALL app-specific data associated with the targeted app, and should very unlikely to be a good way to configure one particular behaviour (e.g. enable/disable saving of passwords to password manager for Chrome in your case) of an app.  It is usually used to restore the app to its very initial state just after all the package binaries got installed when app-specific data fields are either empty or in their default values.  One typical use case is for clean-up of app between log-in/log-out of users on a shared device.   

Did you tried with a profile and add Browser configuration? You can disable Password management, Auto-fill, etc.

I had "hit and miss" with this, sometimes i had to revoke the profile and apply it again so that the settings are applied. 

Looking forward if someone has a fix for this :)

But managed app config should be applied at the next start of the relevant app instantly.

I checked that on several other apps, when i wipe them and restart them they all got the managed app config again when the start up. To be honest i don't have chrome settings to check that way but if Chrome behaves different this could be a topic to investigate with Google (maybe togethet with Soti Support).

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I want to share my experience with browser configuration (resulting using Chrome). Maybe it will help someone to save a little time.

Customer had quite simple request - 3 bookmarks (ideally shown to the user on app opening), block other urls + disable all fancy browser features (like password and history saving, autofill etc), the only maybe not so common request was to be able to open multiple tabs from each url.

At first I've tried Surf of course but users complained about slow responses and tab/sessions getting logged out on backround.

So I've tried Chrome with browser and bookmarks Profile payloads - unfortunately there is no option to configure homepage for Chrome using Profiles (or I didn't found any).
I've tried to configure it using managed configuration but it's not possible to use both browser&bookmark payload together with managed config so it's either one or another.
As result I've tried to use managed config (bit of PIA ) but there's bug resulting to existence of this thread ( option for disabling saving passwords is being ignored - Soti support provided me workaround which was to 1. Assign Chrome without Appconfig, 2. Remove Chrome with Appconfig, 3. Assign Browser Policy to disable password manage - no I'm not kidding and I've decided not to test it or use it if not absolutly necessary ).

At this point I've tried to use Edge (with Appconfig) - everything seems to be working - more or less - with just one issue - Edge doesn't support opening of favorites/bookmarks using url (edge://favorites/ like on desktop or similar or I failed to found out the correct url - I'm not kidding again). There was light at the end of the tunnel to use Top Sites in New Tab configuration but Microsoft being Microsoft separates Edge configuration policies into device and user ones. And "user or app policy" are only avaliable using MAM (which Soti doesn't support) you can guess easily where can you configure Top Sites :). So I was out of luck again.

Back to the drawing board I found that there is something called Chrome Enterprise Core (for free) so I've tried my luck there. And this is the happy end.. almost. There is also bug that doesn't allows you to configure homepage value starting with "chrome-native://" - as "chrome-native://bookmarks/folder/4" is the URL I need to configure because when you use only chrome:// it won't work correctly (I saved you bit of googling just with this url to the managed bookmarks - you are welcome :). Fortunately there is option to add custom config JSON in the portal so with this final touch I was able to finish my "simple" task.

If someone could tell me how to get rid of the two initial user screens to accept or reject newest advert or what features it would be great