Exactly as predicted , denied permission on the key, but MSIExec still spiked-
Will try replacing HP driver, unfortunately, with the exception of a few canon mfc- its ALL hp from desk jet to laserjet to plotters Jean-Paul Natola From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:20:21 -0400 I will try that now, however, and will report back right in a few minutes- but i still feel the misexec kiccking off will hicjack the cpu- will be back in a few Jean-Paul Natola From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:47:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] MSIEXEC CPU on TS To: [email protected] Have you tried setting the permissions on the key so it cannot be modified or appended to? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market… On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: 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: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:21 PM To: [email protected] 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
