How to check and install vShield drivers on a Virtual Machine

This post will show you how to check to see if the vShield drivers are installed and if not how to install them via VMware Tools. You may be using an anti-virus software such as Trend Deep Security whereby its throwing up anti-malware engine offline errors which could be linked to the vShield drivers missing.

  1. First thing is to log onto the virtual machine and open up msinfo32 via the run prompt (start > run > msinfo32).
  2. Expand “Software Environment” and then “System Drivers”
  3. Within this list you’re looking for vsepfit as shown below:

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If you see the driver listed, then vShield is installed. if not, continue on with this post.

First ensure VMware Tools is installed, it could be as simple as you forgot to install the tools. If not, then vShield may have been implemented after some VMs were created or something odd has happened. Follow the next steps to add the vShield drivers to existing VMware tools.

Locate the VM within vSphere and right-click Guest>Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.VMToolsUpgrade1

Select Interactive Tools upgrade.
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Go to the console of the VM and you should see the installation wizard. Click Next.

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Ensure Modify is selected. Click Next.

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Expand VMware Device Drivers. Click Next.

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Expand VMCI Driver, click the drop down on vShield Drivers and select “This feature will be installed on local hard drive”.VMToolsUpgrade6

Now the vShield Drivers should look like the following. Click Next.

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VMware Tools is now ready to begin installation. Click Modify.

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Installing…

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and we’re done! Click finish.

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You will be asked to restart. Assuming now is a good time, click yes.

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That’s the vShield drivers installed.

Microsoft Access error – You do not have the necessary permissions to use the…

When trying to open an Microsoft Access 2003 database that has security features enabled you may get the following Microsoft Access error displayed “You do not have the necessary permissions” on newer versions of Access:

You do not have the necessary permissions to use the ‘.mdb’ object. Have your system administrator or the person who created this object establish the appropriate permissions for you.

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To overcome this slight problem, you need to create a shortcut and link the MDW (Microsoft Access Workgroup information file) with the MDB .

You will need to create a new shortcut Right click New > Shortcut>. When asked type the location of the item. You will need to enter the following, replacing MDB/MDW> to where your files are located and the version of Office you are using. It may be worth opening notepad so you can get the path right and then copy and paste.

* Please note the quotes are required

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSACCESS.EXE" ".mdb" /wrkgrp ".mdw" /user

Replace Office14 with your version of Microsoft Office that is installed. To find this, browse to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ and note the “Office” folder.

You do not have the necessary permissions

So for example, a correct path would look like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSACCESS.EXE" "c:\test.mdb" /wrkgrp "c:\test.mdw" /user

Before creating the shortcut, you can test if this will work by going Start > Run and pasting the path into the run box and clicking ok, if this fails then the shortcut will fail. Check the quotes and path to ensure they’re correct. Once it opens via the run box you can then create the shortcut.

Now when opening the newly created shortcut you should see the database open as normal and presented with a login screen.