Category: VMware
Notes from the lab: VMware UAG 2106 and Admin SAML
VMware introduced SAML login capabilities for the admin facing side of UAG with version 2106. See the following article: Release Notes for VMware Unified Access Gateway 2106 This quick home lab blog shows how easy it is and how to integrate this with VMware Workspace ONE Access as your entry point. First things first, before…
Notes from the field: VMware UAG and Citrix ADC scenario’s
On a recent project we were testing some scenario’s for the usage of VMware Blast BEAT through Citrix ADC. For some more information regarding Blast see the following article: VMware Blast Extreme Optimization Guide | VMware Normally you would see that the Citrix ADC setup is an SSL-BRIDGE vserver with accompanying UDP vserver on the…
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: Citrix ADC and VMware ESX 7u1/7u2
First things first. Citrix ADC at this time isn’t supporting VMware ESX 7.0.1 according to the following article: Support matrix and usage guidelines (citrix.com) This is something that obviously will get supported in due time. But for the people who are running it just as I am in the lab you would see issues like…
Notes from the field: VMware Horizon sessions disconnecting after syslog changes on UAG
On a recent project where we have VMware Horizon 7.13 and UAG 20.09 appliances for the external connections some strange behavior was observed when putting in the syslog URL entries. After adding or removing entries here and saving the settings all the connections through the UAG will get terminated. Finding this behavior strange as to…
Notes from the lab: Bye Bye VMware View Composer
I was upgrading my lab to VMware Horizon 2012 and yes shame on me I still had an composer in my setup. It was already mentioned that VMware Composer is deprecated from the 2006 release but now in 2012 it will block your upgrade when you still have it enabled. Only after disabling composer on…
Notes from the field: VMware Horizon Instant Clone and Imprivata OneSign
On a recent project consisting of an VMware Horizon instant clone setup and Imprivata OneSign in the desktop for SSO capabilities I’ve encountered some strange timing issues. Normal logins through the horizon client via connection server would be ok with the OneSign agent online, logins through the UAG without TrueSSO would also be okay. (so…
Notes from the presentations: Modern authentication glued together with Microsoft, Citrix and VMware
Very happy to share my first presentation on Virtual Expo with Erik Bakker, please click the following link for the recording and all other recordings as well. https://xenapptraining.com/members/virtual-expo/2020-09/
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: VMware UAG reverse proxy why doesn’t it work!
When configuring VMware UAG as an reverse proxy I’ve encountered some issues last year that as far as I could see wasn’t all to well documented. My reference article for the configuration was the following: https://techzone.vmware.com/configuring-web-reverse-proxy-identity-bridging-vmware-unified-access-gateway-vmware-workspace-one-operational-tutorial#985671 Basically when you follow it to the letter in your test deployment and with a test site you will…