Comments on: Tip for virtualizing Citrix servers involving user profiles

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