Notes from the field: Citrix FAS SSO not working with invalid CRL

Recently I got contacted by a customer who had problems performing an SSO to a newly build desktop environment.

The setup a greenfield resource domain and forest trust from an existing tenant with a two way trust. Basically everything was correct but the logon from the users would always get terminated at the desktop with invalid credentials.

After a short discussion and remote session and the error messages in the logs with an invalid CRL it was clear that was the issue. Troubleshooted the AIA/CRL locations and basically the defaults where still in play, explained that default push in AD isn’t a recommended approach. If any client can’t access the CRL it will give a deny on further actions (and other clients that don’t understand AD or are joined to AD won’t work as well).

Below screenshots depict a default ADCS installation which in turn pushes out the default legacy templates and also the CRL to LDAP which I see much too often at customers:

Resolution for the CRL error was to revoke all the certificates for usage with FAS, change the CRL/AIA location to a routable and reachable HTTP listener instead of LDAP (preferably an HA setup with a load-balancer in front of it) and push out the new CRL. Afterwards logons where using the SSO capabilities.

Hope it helps!


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