Disabling the Forefront Icon for Citrix Users in Citrix Metaframe 4.5
Forefront was deployed to a Citrix server farm; much to the joy and delight of our Citrix Guru, Michael.
He got rather concerned about the happy Forefront icon sitting in the system tray of Citrix desktops. If a user decided to kick off a Forefront scan, the Citrix server would ramp up its use of memory and RAM. Not a good thing on busy Citrix server apparently.
I offered to lock down what user could do, but Michael quickly jumped in to the registry and cut out these keys on his farm.
REM Remove User GUI Run Key for Citrix
REG DELETE “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” /V “Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antimalware Service” /F
REM Delete Forefront from AllUsers StartMenu
rmdel c:\docume~1\alluse~1\startm~1\programs\micros~1 /q /s
He’s happy, and the Citrix users are blissfully unaware Forefront is watching their every move….
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