Snow Inventory Agent Extension

[Tonrab]

HI, I need to add the Snow Inventory agent to our estate, however, from reading thier notes, I can't see away to add it to the Intune ADMX template we have. Am I missing something?
https://docs.snowsoftware.com/release-notes/en/index-en.html#snowinventoryagentfirefoxextension1

The first thing it mentions is to set saas.firefox.enabled to enable (under the Install Browser extensions via Managment tool or Policy header)
https://docs.snowsoftware.com/snow-inventory-agents-and-oracle-scanners/en/UUID-788c7a9f-f5e5-1c1f-5562-aefd34798e39.html
https://docs.snowsoftware.com/documentation-resources/snow-inventory/configuration-doc.html

and then amend the policies.json file with the following
{ "policies": { "3rdparty": { "Extensions": { [email protected]: { "consentgiven": true } } }, "ExtensionSettings": { [email protected] : { "install_url" : file://C:\\Program Files\\Snow Software\\Inventory\\Agent\\FFCloudmetering.xpi, "installation_mode" : "force_installed" } } } }

Thanks for your help

[mkaply]

You can see how the ExtensionSettings stuff is done via Intune here:

https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#extensionsettings

For their Extension specific changes, they should have created their own ADMX/ADML files to use.

[snowliver]

Hi @Tonrab,

join us in our community https://community.snowsoftware.com/s/question/0D5Td00000CLwnjKAD/we-are-looking-to-deploy-the-snow-inventory-agent-extension-for-firefox-users, and get noticed when we are updating our documentation and having ADMX/ADML files.

Cheers Oli

[mkaply]

@snowliver If y'all need any help with ADMX/ADML, let me know.

[snowliver]

Thanks @mkaply ,
I think, i have question. As you can see above, we use a bool value in storage.managed.
Is it possible to use ADMX to create something what will become a real boolean in FF`s storage managed? Seems ADMX windows registry only has int (DWORD) and string.

thanks in advance.

cheers Oli

[mkaply]

If you do something like this:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/windows/firefox.admx#L4228

it does end up as a boolean in policy.

[snowliver]

Hi @mkaply

i tried it like that and also took the example from https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/enterprise/enterprise-development/#how-to-add-policy

and it will be an integer.

Also checked in the registry, how the built-in settings are created and they will be a DWORD set to 1. So i guess, we need to fetch that in the extension itself. :-(

Thanks for your help!

[mkaply]

Oh interesting. I didn't think about that side of things. Yeah, you're right.

I think it's because on Chrome they use a schema and map it internally to the right type.

[snowliver]

Well, using a native storage manifest works, and using the policies.json works.

Do you know a way to use ADMX to satisfy the "a registry key with a single default value" wish from "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_manifests#windows" so someone could deploy the manifest directly?

I wasn't able to set the value on (Default) (or (Standard) on a german OS), only on creating new ValueNames. This is how it should look like:

[mkaply]

I'm having a friend who knows more about this than me check into it.