ZCM 11.2.4 in a VMWare View VDI environment

We have been running 11.2.4 in our View VDI environment and overall been very successful. We just rolled Win 7 and are seeing approx. 10% of the VMs with the zenworkswindowsservice.exe running steadily around 50% for hours. Any thoughts? One thing I just set to try was excluding that from Microsoft FEP AV. Anything other thoughts to resolve? Thanks.

There are no known issues regarding VMWare view that would cause this.
For AV see -> http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7007545
I find ProcMon for Sysinternals useful to see if other prcesses such as
AV are hitting those files unexpectedly. A few times I have seen AV
Exclusions not quite working as expected until tweaked.
The ZMD-Messages.log may show if the agent is doing something....
On 9/30/2014 9:36 PM, harrymsg wrote:
>
> We have been running 11.2.4 in our View VDI environment and overall been
> very successful. We just rolled Win 7 and are seeing approx. 10% of the
> VMs with the zenworkswindowsservice.exe running steadily around 50% for
> hours. Any thoughts? One thing I just set to try was excluding that
> from Microsoft FEP AV. Anything other thoughts to resolve? Thanks.
>
>
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On 9/30/2014 9:36 PM, harrymsg wrote:
>
> We have been running 11.2.4 in our View VDI environment and overall been
> very successful. We just rolled Win 7 and are seeing approx. 10% of the
> VMs with the zenworkswindowsservice.exe running steadily around 50% for
> hours. Any thoughts? One thing I just set to try was excluding that
> from Microsoft FEP AV. Anything other thoughts to resolve? Thanks.
>
>
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he
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On 5/15/2014 6:46 AM, joorschot wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When installing bundles with an MSI inside the MSI installs fine with
> elevated rights when connecting over RDP.
> When we use PCOIP the bundle fails and we have to set the dynamic
> administrator credentials. Then the bundle installs fine.
>
> VMWare view 5
> ZCM 11.2.4
> he
> SSO login with zcm works fine with Windows7 and zenworks.
> Only issue we have till tihis moment was the error of installing MSI's,
> we have to set the rights with DA credentials. Not needed on thick
> clients and not needed when connecting to view over RDP.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
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