Comments on: Tip for virtualizing Citrix servers involving user profiles

By: Josh Dunigan

Josh Dunigan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:15:26 +0000

Here’s a script that can be added through policy that should resolve most of these issues. Name it something.vbs and voila.

ON ERROR RESUME Next

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002

Set WSHShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

strKeyPath = “SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order”
strValueName = “ProviderOrder”
strComputer = “.”

Set oReg=GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\default:StdRegProv”)

oReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath, strValueName, strValue

strNewValue = Replace(strValue, “,vmhgfs”, “”)
strNewValue = Replace(strNewValue, “,vmhgs”, “”)
strNewValue = Replace(strNewValue, “,hgfs”, “”)
strNewValue = Replace(strNewValue, “vmhgfs,”, “”)
strNewValue = Replace(strNewValue, “vmhgs,”, “”)
strNewValue = Replace(strNewValue, “hgfs,”, “”)
strNewValue = Replace(strNewValue, “,,”, “,”)

oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath, strValueName, strNewValue

Wscript.quit

By: Matt Taylor

Matt Taylor — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:42:57 +0000

Modifying the VMware tools install and unchecking shared folders should do the same thing. Then, just leave the shared folders option unchecked during future tools upgrades.

By: Thuan Nguyen

Thuan Nguyen — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:50:32 +0000

Thank you for this article. We are suffer the same thing on Vsphere 4 and it drving us crazy.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:59:12 +0000

Thank you for the comment. I will look at updating the article for vSphere.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:02:09 +0000

Thank you for this article (despite its age). We are suffering from exactly this problem. I found the registry key entry exactly as stated except it was called vmhgfs with Vsphere 4 tools.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:20:39 +0000

No need to apologize.

Yeah, d has been out forever. That’s the last known stable version I’m aware of so it’s the version I have been using in production for quite a while. Thank you for your comments.

By: Andrew Storrs

Andrew Storrs — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:15:36 +0000

Sorry you’re right it’s UPHClean 2.0 (in beta) that fixes it http://snipr.com/4p2qh

32-bit download:
http://blogs.technet.com/uphclean/attachment/2940877.ashx

64-bit download:
http://blogs.technet.com/uphclean/attachment/2940834.ashx

Be aware some people have had problems with the beta (I haven’t seen any on a few hundred Citrix servers) so you’d want to thoroughly test it in your environment. Hopefully they release a final version sometime in the next 6 months.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:16:48 +0000

I’ve had UPHClean installed since day one (I install this service as a best practice on most of my Windows servers). UPHClean is unable to resolve the hgfs issue. If you know of a UPHClean tweak to handle hgfs, please share

By: Andrew Storrs

Andrew Storrs — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:56:34 +0000

The User Profile Hive Cleanup Service (UPHClean) from Microsoft will take care of this problem and should be a “must install” tool on any Citrix/Terminal Server.

Download it here: http://snipr.com/4ortz