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  • Notes from the field: The broken VMware Access, UEM, and HUB portal

    On a recent project with a customer, we encountered the issue that the VMware integration of the three products would be sort of “broken”. We first observed the issue after implementing the Intelligent Hub Verify rule set and see that this wouldn’t work. The devices and UEM wouldn’t show in the portal and the access…

  • Notes from the field: VMware App Volumes LDAP(S) lockout

    This is a quick blog to address a lockout issue if you are having troubles with LDAP(S) and or the validation of the certificate. When you want to validate this or for that matter resolve it because you can’t login to the App Volumes Manager anymore do the following on the database: Select the dbo.ldap_domains…

  • Notes from the field: VMware Access CRL url too long?

    This is just a quick post regarding CRL checking in VMware Access. It seems that when you have the “NEW” UI interface enabled there is a bug when you put in a valid CRL location in the lengths of: http://this.ismycrlfilelocation.crl that it would chop the end off and stay at http://this.ismycrlfilelocation and then a faulty…

  • Notes from the lab: Using VMware Access as IdP for Citrix Gateway

    I like to fiddle around with possibilities when it comes to SAML, OAUTH authentications. This all started when a customer engineer triggered me with the possibility of achieving an SSO experience with the Citrix NetScaler and using VMware Access as the source of truth for authentication. Well guess what this works! And even for the…

  • Notes from the field: Citrix Cloud Connector we’re having trouble signing you in

    Recently I’ve encountered an issue after installing the Citrix Cloud Connector on new Windows Server 2022 machines. The configuration on my first machine went just fine until the sign-in, here my interest got peeked because I still have IE11 on my box, strange that it uses the sign-in for Citrix Cloud. Well let’s test the…

  • Notes from the field: The one that Android said no more local

    On one of my projects, we’ve encountered a strange issue regarding domain name resolving. A little background on the canvas painted it’s about a VMware Workspace ONE setup with working web URL’s and UEM enrollments, you name it. We have a nice setup regarding managed devices and these use a per-app VMware tunnel connection to…

  • Notes from the lab: Migrating Azure AD Connect and then we cannot sync

    This is a quick blog post regarding my own Azure AD Connect migration and a nasty error after trying to connect again for an initial connection and synchronisation. A little insight in my environment, I already had the latest version running of Azure AD Connect namely 2.1.16.0 on my Windows Server 2019. See Azure AD…

  • Notes from the field: Citrix XenMobile / CEM don’t touch that store name!

    Just a quick shout out blog to stress the importance of the store name that XenMobile / CEM uses. This default store name is called “Store”. If you by any means have changed this store name to anything else, you might run in two issues depending on different scenarios. Scenario 1: Citrix XenMobile or CEM…

  • Notes from the lab: Citrix StoreFront 2203 and the cannot complete request

    A quick blog regarding my Citrix lab upgrade from Citrix Virtual Apps and Dekstops (CVAD) 1912CU4 to 2203 and the little StoreFront snag I hit. Summary of my setup: Two Delivery controllers Two StoreFront servers cohabitating with Director as well Two FAS servers Two WEM servers One unmanaged VDA worker And a Citrix ADC HA…

  • 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…

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