Search for virtual machines with function "Shared Folders" (HGFS) running

I'm looking for advice on creating a script to find all VM with HGFS running, or where the service is actually used.

Apparently, VMware posted the notice of security VMSA-2016-0001 | United States yesterday and my security people are panicking.

Any information you have would be useful.

Thank you

Ludi

The only way I know is questioning the guest operating system itself and check the registry path:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order

and check if the value string ProviderOrder hgfs, vmhgs or vmhgfs.

You should remove these values and restart the virtual machine for the change to take effect.

Wise PowerShell:

$VM = get - VM NameofVM

$Reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]: OpenRemoteBaseKey ("LocalMachine', $vm.extensiondata.summary.guest.hostname")

$RegKey = $Reg.OpenSubKey("System\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order")

$RegKey.GetValue ("ProviderOrder")

VMware KB: Guest Windows cannot update hgfs.dat or vmhgs.dat

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