apelz
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VMware UEM and Microsoft User Profile Disks on Windows 10

Hi guys,

is someone here who tried to use UEM and UPD? We want to use User Profile Disks because it give us the ability to use dynamic user aissgnment and profile disks on a linked clone pool. But if i try to use UEM for application settings im getting the following error:

2018-06-27 14:31:37.981 [FATAL] Error importing archive '\\***\uemconfig$\General\FlexRepository\Settings\Reg\Mozilla Firefox.zip'.

2018-06-27 14:31:37.981 [ERROR] Error importing UEM settings ('Mozilla Firefox.xml')

2018-06-27 14:31:40.668 [FATAL] FlexUtils::ExecuteCommand: Error 5 calling '"C:\Windows\REGEDIT.EXE" /S "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Temp\FLXF4CA.tmp"' (AsUser)

I think the reason is that UEM has a problem with a linked profile. The userprofiledisk looks in the users folder like:

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Has someone who tried UPD and UEM and got this working?

Thanks!

regards

Alex

DEMdev
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Hi apelz,

Thank you for moving your question to this forum. To pick up where we left off in the Horizon forum:

The users have the rights to use regedit. I think the problem is that the profile is like a linked folder in the os or did you already tried user profile disks with uem?

No, I've never tried UPD, but I can't really imagine UEM having an issue with that. At least, my understanding is that it's "just" an additional disk that is mounted, with a bunch of user profile folders junctioned to locations on that disk. UEM just uses high-level Win32 API calls to access files, so that should all be completely transparent.

The access denied error is still troubling me, though... Can you provide a full UEM log file at log level DEBUG, covering a full session from logon till logoff?

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apelz
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Hi Uemdev,

here are some screenshots from the permissions:

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My user is a normal domain user. We dont have any other restriction specified and i can run regedit:

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Here is the full logfile:

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best regards

Alex

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DEMdev
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Hi Alex,

Thank you for the additional information. I still have no clue about what might be going on...

Do you have UAC-related policies configured, by any chance?

Could you try running FlexEngine.exe -r from the C:\Program Files\Immidio\Flex Profiles folder, and check if you still get the FlexUtils::ExecuteCommand: Error 5 calling '"C:\Windows\REGEDIT.EXE" errors in the log?

BTW, I'm sure it's unrelated to this issue, but Horizon 7.0 is not supported on Windows 10, Version 1703.

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apelz
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Hi UEMdev,

thank you! This helps alot. You was right, UAC was disabled. The reason was that we using the VMware Customization Tool and the VMWare official Windows 10 template. There was a setting which disabling the UAC. Ive now modified the template and do a reinstall of the gold image. If its finished i will let you know if this was reason for the error 5.

Thanks!

best regards

Alex

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DEMdev
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Ah, the OSOT (maybe) rears its head again... Please keep us posted – if it was indeed the OSOT, I'll try and see if I can build in some detection for that.

Schönes Wochenende!

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apelz
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Hi UEMdev,

you was right. With enabled UAC its now working.

Thanks for your help! Smiley Happy

best regards

Alex