Enable ADB debugging is grayed out - This setting is managed by your administrator
This issue was documented in 2021 but with no solution. My Chromebook is managed by my company and I am the manager. But Google tries to find the managed option to unlock for this to work in the administration interface for more than 15 days without success. By the way there are thousands of options in the admin interface it could be a clever feature to number them. If you are in front of the same issue please add your comments to this post. I hope that Google support will succeed to solve the issue soon because I developed my first app for Android on my Chromebook with Android Studio and I was able to download it to my phone before these 15 days.
Best practices for deploying WireGuard VPN across managed ChromeOS devices (system-wide or via Admin Console)
Hello, We currently manage a growing fleet of ChromeOS devices (Chromebooks and Chromeboxes) through our Google Workspace domain. All devices are enrolled, updated to the latest ChromeOS version, and centrally configured via the Admin Console. Our VPN of choice is WireGuard, which ChromeOS now supports natively. We followed Google’s official documentation to configure WireGuard per user: Configure VPNs on ChromeOS (Google Support) The challenge we are running into is scalability: configuring WireGuard individually on a per-user basis is becoming increasingly tedious as our organization grows. Ideally, we would like to achieve one of the following: - System-wide tunnel setup - Assign a WireGuard key per device, rather than per user. This would allow the VPN configuration to apply regardless of who logs into the machine. - Admin Console integration - Ability to push or preconfigure WireGuard VPN settings (similar to how Wi-Fi networks or other VPN types can be managed centrally). From what I understand, the Admin Console allows pushing some network settings, but WireGuard does not currently appear as a supported option. We also explored the possibility of using an Android VPN app as a workaround. However, the Android subsystem seems to create its own isolated IP pool, which breaks certain use cases for us — e.g., we need internal VPN IP addresses for DNS resolution and internal resource access, which doesn’t work properly when tunneled through the Android environment. So my questions are: Is there currently any way to enforce or distribute WireGuard VPN configurations via the Admin Console? If not, is there a recommended workaround to achieve system-wide VPN coverage (device-level rather than user-level)? More generally, what is the best practice for deploying WireGuard in centrally-managed ChromeOS environments today? I realize WireGuard support on ChromeOS is still relatively new and limited to certain devices, but we’ve been using it successfully with most of our devices. We’re just looking for the most scalable and officially supported way to roll this out across our managed devices. Thanks in advance for any insights!