on the TS box itself- I guess disabling MSIExec wouldn't help either I'm up to 27 new guids in the last hour
Jean-Paul Natola From: dani...@hotmail.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:21:07 -0500 Is it enumerating printers local to the TS server or the workstation? From: J- P Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:13 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS I get that, the issue is that when a user logs into TS, the minute they try to print or print preview their first job (its a report from Access ) - MSIExec hits 100% till the keys get enumerated, during that time ,everyone on TS feels it and you know how it is to just watch the hour glass 3-4 minutes seems like an eternity to the user waiting for it. Can I just disable the server from even attempting to enumerate, the option of upgrading to a new OS is not really viable at the moment. Jean-Paul Natola From: ken.corne...@kimball.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:00:15 -0400 Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS Just put the GP in place and relax. You can’t manually get rid of them – they just keep coming back. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:56 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS I did a manual delete of the hP key, and sure enough after logging into to the TS when I went to do a "pdf preview" it hung for about 4 minutes- and then about 11 new keys showed up I'm open to options , users dont actually need to print over TS, but they do require print preview for the PDF's they email- ROCK> me < HARD PLACE open to all suggestions thanks From: jnat...@hotmail.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:54:06 -0400 Yes they are in HP gazillion Can you share your policy, did it delete before or after user logon/off And more importantly did it prevent MSIEXEC from shooting to 100 during a new logon? THANKS SO MUCH Jean-Paul Natola From: ken.corne...@kimball.com To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:49:47 -0400 Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS IIRC, my problem is HP printers and they create gazillions of keys under HKU\.Default\Software\HewlettPackard. I simply created a group policy object that deletes the whole HKU\.Default\Software\HewlettPackard key. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:21 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS I realize this is has been around for a while, but it seems that there still has not been an actual fix for this, so i am asking if anyone has had any successful work-arounds, besides upgrading the server http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/c16e01d6-4b64-4dad-ba8f-479c9fea85c0/high-cpu-usage-in-msiexec-due-to-enumeration-of-print-guids-in-hkudefaultsoftware I literally have thousands of these guids on the TS Environment, 2008 32 bit TS with Citrix fundamentals Any thoughts are appreciated
