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Hi everyone,
Recently being asked to install the new Microsoft Edge Enterprise ( https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/enterprise ) on the Citrix Session Servers in our Citrix farm, we have started doing a bit of research, knowing that standard Microsoft Edge is not available to install on a Windows Server environment.
First thing you come up with when researching online, are the community forums, which state that after a standard installation of the Microsoft Edge package, the application does not launch and causes very high CPU usage, rendering the server unusable – https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/404820-chromium-based-edge-browser-doesnt-launch-wvda-installed/ . This has also happened in our environment. Dynacord usb audio driver download.
Following the thread, one of the community members has detailed what needs to be done, in his blog, here : https://jkindon.com/2019/09/17/deploying-brave-and-microsoft-edge-dev-browsers-in-citrix-cvad-environments/ . However, following the instructions and modifying the below to include the msedge.exe executable at the end was not enough:
Key: HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesCtxUvi
Value Name: UviProcessExcludes
Type: REG_SZ
Value: badapp1.exe;badlongname.ex;badapp2.exe;msedge.exe;
Unfortunately, we noticed that the Citrix API hooks are still loading with the msedge.exe process – a simple guide on how to check this, using Process Explorer, is described step by step in the Citrix KB https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX221177 .
Even if the environment version we were installing this in was post-7.9, as mentioned in the Citrix KB, https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107825 , we were forced to disable the Citrix API hooks for the executable, using the methods described in pre-7.9 section, by adding the following keys (used only 64-bit section in our case):
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Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARECitrixCtxHook
Value Name: ExcludedImageNames
Type: REG_SZ
Value: badapp1.exe,badapp2.exe,badapp3.exe
For Windows 64-bit version
Keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARECitrixCtxHook
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeCitrixCtxHook
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeCitrixCtxHook64
Value Name: ExcludedImageNames
Type: REG_SZ
Value: badapp1.exe,badapp2.exe,badapp3.exe
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Unfortunately, up to now, I am not sure if this is a version bug, or if this is how it is supposed to be, however this solved our problems and the Edge Browser is now working as expected.