How do policies for managed browsers work

Problem

After configuring policies you notice that they keep changing from inherited to locally applied.

Environment

  • Chrome Browser
  • ChromeOS

Solution

You must make sure that when a sub-OU inherits the policies from the top OU, you apply the change from the top OU where you have configured the policies.
Note: When changing the policy from the Sub-OU it is expected that the policy will no longer be inherited, it will become a owned policy for that OU (Locally applied).

Cause

The admin changed the settings on the Sub OU while it inherited the policy from the top OU.