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My head is spinning and I don’t know where to begin.  Perhaps this community can help?

I’m new to Nutanix and a new admin.  We recently turned on File Analytics and since then, I’m getting alerts every 30-60 minutes about about file PermissionDenied (Count 38,640, Threshold is 10k) from 779 users. Similarly, FileRead (Count 15,733, Threshold is 10k) from 703 users.

According to the Excel attachments and FileAnalytics dashboard, desktop.ini appears most frequently. We do have our desktops “locked” to prevent users from adding files to the desktop. I’m thinking about removing that “lock” to see if that improves the statistics.

Another thought was indexing… I’ve already enabled the “Prevent automatic adding shared folders to the Windows Search index.” but still not seeing much of an improvement.

We are still using MS Sync… maybe I should turn that off?

Any one else see something similar?  Any suggestions where to look for the cause? This is the 3rd day and I’ve lost sleep over this!  LOL.    Thanks so much for any insight you can share. 

 

So users arent allowed to write on the desktop. Probably the desktop.ini is missing as well. What you can do it creating the desktop.ini file in each desktop folder of the user to see if those anomalies disappear. (Copy a desktop.ini from a working desktop, it is a hidden file) 

Hi JeroenTielen!  Thanks for your reply!   I made changes to the desktop.ini file as you suggested but I didn’t notice a difference in the anomalies.  I made additional changes to indexing in Group Policy but the notifications continue to role in.   I even restarted campus desktops over the weekend to ensure my changes took effect.  Anomaly notificaitons paused over the weekend but resumed once staff returned to work today.

If I get this resolved, I’ll reply with my resolution.

If you really want to solve the anomalies then you need to figure out what is causing them, of just ignore them 😉 As is it you companies policy to not be able to write on the desktop those anomalies are (probably) always generated. But again, if you really want to get rid of them, make the desktop writeable for your test user and see which files are written to the desktop. 

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