Recently I ran into an issue where a misconfigured True SSO template caused Horizon launches to fail when launching through Workspace ONE Access. The error looked similar to this: The desktop agent logs were not reporting any errors whatsoever, and SAML was succeeding just fine because we were able to authenticate into the Connection Server. […]
Load Balancing Kerberos with Workspace ONE Access
There are a lot of good posts and documents on how to setup Kerberos on your Connectors to function appropriately with Workspace ONE Access. However, many of them are inaccurate when it comes to load balancing your Connectors for Kerberos. Load balancing is the only way to ensure your Kerberos authentication mechanism is highly available […]
Workspace ONE Access – Duo RADIUS MFA without True SSO
So you went through the process of getting Workspace ONE Access setup for MFA/RADIUS authentication. You sign into WSO-A, get MFA’d, and you jump for joy! But when you launch a virtual app, you are prompted for your password again… The prompt is happening because RADIUS is not recognized as a valid method for password […]
Streamline Browser and Adobe Updates in VDI Images
Typically customers opt to place browsers and Adobe Reader in their VDI images due to the majority of their users utilizing them. Sometimes it is an extra half hour of work just to get them updated and often a step gets missed along the way. Just as you push the image to production, you realize […]
List Horizon Desktop Pool To Global Entitlement Associations
As promised from my last post, here is the function for listing Desktop Pools to their associated Global Entitlements – Get-HVPoolsToGEs. Enjoy!
List Horizon App to Global Entitlement Associations
Sometimes it is handy to list all of the associations between Horizon Application Pools to Global Entitlements. Here is a quick function I wrote to do so! Introducing Get-HVAppsToGEs. You must first install the HVHelper Modules with PowerCLI, as well as a really cool module called Join-Object for performing SQL-like joins within two PowerShell arrays. […]
Get VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Session Count Using PowerShell
With the recent COVID-19 catastrophe, we had the need to automatically pull UAG session statistics and report them to a dashboard so we could keep track of our external Horizon users to ensure the 2k limit per UAG was not exceeded. What better way to automate this than a little PowerShell? VMware has some documentation […]
VMware Horizon Logoff Script with PowerCLI
One drawback with Horizon View is that it does not have the ability (through the GUI) to automate user logoffs or reboots on a daily/weekly basis. Thankfully, VMware has written some halfway decent PowerShell snap-ins so we can script such tasks. I say halfway decent because there are only 45 commandlets and only 20 are […]
Customizing VMware Horizon Connection Server Login Screen
Let’s finally do something on VMware Horizon! This post will cover how to customize your Connection Server login screen, something that is becoming more important as HTML5 access gains popularity. I could not find any documentation on this, so I dug through to find all of the relevant images and files needed. FYI – this […]
Update a Static/Dedicated MCS Image (vSphere)
The other day I made a change to the “master” machine that was initially used for the deployment of several MCS static/dedicated desktops. When I went to deploy additional desktops, I expected the changes to persist from the master. Guess what? That was not the case. But WHY? If you pay close attention when you […]