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Douglas42Adams
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Google Drive File Stream - Any idea where it keeps its login info / user ?

Hi All ,

Happy Tuesday .

Now that GDFS appears to work with the 2.16.1 agent hotfix .  We now have it loading and choosing a drive letter which is nice.

I think i'm just having issues w/ what it probably the Easy Part - Saving the User Login data with UEM . ie when we reboot the instant clones GDFS continues to prompt for a use login and password .

I didnt find much on my searches.

We ran the App Profiler tool.. and all it came up with was :

HKCU\Software\Google\   - which is a little broad.. and conflicts w/ Chrome's UEM Registry entry.

We tried HKCU\Software\Google\DriveFS - that didnt work .

I admit im rather new to Instant Clones - UEM and App volumes - however.. how does one even Find what entry / File Google is using ?.. Sysinternals Process explorer ? .

We have a ticket in w/ the Google 'Collab' Team.. see if They know where their app is saving the info .  Creating a vmware ticket as well.

Just curious if anyone has got this working.. and has the UEM data they could possible share.

thanks much !

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Hi Douglas42Adams​,

In this case Procmon (https://live.sysinternals.com/ ) and RegShot (https://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/) are your best friends. I prefer RegShot over Procmon in for this occasion. It does a snapshot before (the change) and after and compares the differences. I would recommend to do a capture before the application starts and after the application closes and then run the compare.


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ijdemes
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Hi Douglas42Adams​,

In this case Procmon (https://live.sysinternals.com/ ) and RegShot (https://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/) are your best friends. I prefer RegShot over Procmon in for this occasion. It does a snapshot before (the change) and after and compares the differences. I would recommend to do a capture before the application starts and after the application closes and then run the compare.


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Douglas42Adams
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Thanks Ivan !

I have been looking for something like RegShot for a while.

We ran the Profiler and all it found was on Reg group.. and ironically it had Nothing in it.

( HKCU\Software\Google\DriveFS ).

After calling google 'Collab Team' support we found out this is what we needed :

[IncludeRegistryTrees]

HKLM\Software\Google\DriveFS
HKCU\Software\Google\DriveFS
HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\DriveFS

[IncludeFolderTrees]
<LocalAppData>\Google\DriveFS

Here's the Link with all the REG keys / entries as well :

Configure Drive File Stream - G Suite Admin Help

We don't force GDFS files to be local / ie to create a local copy.  I would gather if someone did that these entries would need to be tweaked..  not sure.

To get GDFS to even load.. one needs 2.16 patch 1 i believe as well.  Just the Agent not the Manager..Manager is dorked right now i believe . ( 5/8/2019 )

ijdemes
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Hi Douglas42Adams​,

Good to hear and thanks for the link.

Those HKLM keys will probably be saved for the user. But by default a normal user will not be able to import those HKLM keys/values during logon. Unless the user is a local admin, or has explicit permissions in the registry (HKLM), or privilege elevation (within UEM) is used for importing those HKLM keys/values.


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WombatMaster
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could you elaborate a little more on "privilege elevation (within UEM)"

I'm just setting up horizon and I'm not fully familiar with every feature.

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SummaCollege
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WombatMaster​: For the Privilige Elevation take a look at the following for more info, hope this helps you a bit:

- Configure Privilege Elevation

- VMware User Environment Manager 9.2: Privilege Elevation - Feature Walk-through - YouTube

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WombatMaster
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so im only just now circling back to this.  i can see in uem how to elevate a certain .exe

but what would I need to elevate to let the user import those registry keys?

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