Google Chrome Installation One-Liner

Instead of wanting to keep up with the latest Google Chrome installers, I wanted to create a one-liner that can download Chrome from the Google URI and then silently install it in the reference image build process. This one-liner does just that. It will download the latest Chrome version and install it. This means you no longer have to take time keeping up with the latest installer and the code is compacted down to a one-liner so it is only in the task sequence.

I placed the $URI variable at the beginning, as shown below, so if it ever needs to be changed, it is easily accessible in the one-liner within either SCCM or MDT. If the download site is changed and the installer fails, it will return the error code back so you are aware of the issue. 

As you can see below, I used a Run Command Line task sequence to incorporate this into the build. 

NOTE: The URI in the one-liner downloads the Chrome 64-Bit public version. You will need to update the URI if you use a different version.

Here is the one-liner:

 powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command "&{$URI='http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.126/chrome_installer.exe';$ChromeInstaller=$env:TEMP+'ChromeInstaller.exe';Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $URI -OutFile $ChromeInstaller -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;$ErrCode=(Start-Process -FilePath $ChromeInstaller -ArgumentList '/silent /install' -Wait -Passthru).ExitCode;Remove-Item $ChromeInstaller -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force;Exit $ErrCode}"