Category: ADFS

  • Notes from the field: Citrix Files / ShareFile MDX SSO not working

    At my latest Citrix Endpoint Management customer there were some issues regarding Citrix Files / ShareFile not achieving an SSO throughout the MDX/MAM enabled applications. Everything outside the MDX/MAM application bubble would work just fine only when tunnelling through the internal only application this would fail. The setup was comprising of a dual IDP setup…

  • Notes from the field: VMware Access Kerberos integration and Office 365

    Okay let’s say you have your setup for VMware Access nicely configured with your directory search attribute configured as userPrincipalName because that’s the modern way with all cloud services etc. and configured your inbound Kerberos authentication through the IDP of the Access connector. Everyone is happy and all is working well with external connections, internal…

  • Notes from the lab: VMware vCenter 7u2 ADFS changes

    When vCenter 7 introduced ADFS integration I jumped on the configuration part in my lab and set it up with the necessary OAUTH integrations: Now with vCenter 7u2 there are some changes when you have it in place and are upgrading: The trust store is changed to VECS and you need to change/add that in…

  • Notes from the lab: Microsoft ADFS and VMware UAG

    You don’t see many configuration articles around ADFS and UAG and that’s why I would like to share my setup. First things first, I’m expecting that there is an working Horizon environment with True SSO enabled for access to the desktop. And a working ADFS environment to add a new application to test with. My…

  • Notes from the field: Configuring AFAS Online with Azure

    I have a quick win for those who are also in the process of migrating an ADFS configured AFAS Online setup to Azure Active Directory. I’ve already had an support call with them and besides the point they don’t support any troubleshooting IDP setups they did their best which in turn got me to sharing…

  • Notes from the lab: Configuring vCenter 7 with ADFS

    With the release of vCenter 7 you can now integrate it with Microsof Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) See the following blog article for an overview: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7-identity-federation.html See the following configuration articles for a setup overview: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.authentication.doc/GUID-C5E998B2-1148-46DC-990E-A5DB71F93351.html https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78029 With this information I’ve configured my lab environment to a working SAML based login with a few…