Tag: VMware
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Notes from the lab: Some magic, integrating Citrix resources with VMware Access
Like my friend Edwin de Bruin explains in his blog(s): Migrating from Citrix Gateway to VMware Access Workspace One: Part one (debruinonline.net) and Migrating from Citrix Gateway to VMware Access Workspace One: Part Two! (debruinonline.net) he expects me to deliver you all some magic. For this blog I’m going to start with the necessary resource […]
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Notes from the field: Microsoft Azure MFA Number Matching and the one with NPS extension
Regarding the upcoming change of Microsoft MFA number matching, some customers started to ask me hey what’s going on? Do we need to do something? Is there any impact for our users? Well, the short answer is yes. The long answer is well it depends, can we live with the current setup or is there […]
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Notes from the lab: Citrix XenMobile 10.15 upgrade fails
Regarding my own XenMobile deployment I had a 10.14 Rolling Patch environment 6 running and updated it to Rolling Patch 9 before the eventual upgrade to 10.15 base. This all is very easy to do and all the required information is presented at Release notes for Rolling Patches | XenMobile Server Current Release (citrix.com) regarding […]
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Notes from the field: VMware UEM Apple Registered mode pre-registration not working
On a recent project in which we use VMware UEM in a managed and registered mode of management the latter is experiencing a bug when pre-registering for enrollment is enabled. With closed enrollment enabled all devices need to be registered beforehand, this is a form of security to mandate there is no open enrollment possible. […]
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Notes from the field: The Kerberos chronicles, the one with VMware TrueSSO
After a lengthy and cumbersome troubleshoot on a VMware TrueSSO setup finally had the time to blog this one. In summary the situation with a customer was a working VMware TrueSSO setup which stopped working, after lengthy troubleshooting we opened a support case with VMware and later also with Microsoft. The issue was manifesting in […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Notes from the field: VMware Horizon instant clone breaks with Kerberos armoring
On my current customer project we’ve encountered a strange issue when some stricter security policies were implemented. Kerberos armoring was enabled which effectively broke the instant clone process for Windows 10 1809/1909 releases but not for 2009 or 21H2. It all started with a ticket that the image update process in Horizon would error out […]