A Technology Journey
If you are here, you are probably trying to install certificates and all you see or have seen for hours is, “Certificate installation is in progress.” If you think it’s not working, you are probably correct. Hopefully after reviewing this post, you will be able to have properly installed certificates.
While VMware by Broadcom is a thing and Workspace ONE Access is supposedly the new name for VMware Identity Manager, you will find the Easy Installer still refers to it as VMware Identity Manager. So while there are many identity crises happening, the one crisis this post will illustrate is how to deploy the Lifecycle Manager as well as a clustered VMware Identity Manager instance.
Continue reading “VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle: VMware Identity Manager (vIDM)”I use a YubiKey 5Ci (by Yubico) in my lab. This allows me to log in with a smart card interface. If you are looking for information on how to configure smart card access in your lab, please reference the following post: MyLab: Smart Card Authentication
Continue reading “Configuring Smart Card | Common Access Card (CAC) | Personal Identity Verification (PIV) in VMware vSphere and VMware Horizon”This post will document how to configure VMware Horizon on Unified Access Gateway (UAG). To get this working the first time, ensure the following appliances are configured. A Unified Access Gateway should already be deployed and configured. Reference the link for more information on how to:
* Log into the Appliance Settings
* Configure NTP servers
* Configure TLS settings (Admin and Internet interfaces)
* Configure a SAML Identity Provider (IdP)
* Configure High Availability Settings (if required)
* Configure network settings.
The other technology that should already be configured are the VMware Horizon Connection servers. It is ideal to have separate Horizon Connection servers for internal and external endpoints. The configurations for these servers are different when dealing with tunnels and secure gateways. Ensure the Horizon Connection servers have TLS certificates configured.
Continue reading “MyLab: Configuring VMware Horizon on Unified Access Gateway (UAG)”I use a YubiKey 5 Series security key (from Yubico) in my lab. This allows me to use strong authentication and test out security scenarios that I usually find myself in while on the job. I did use the reference material from Yubico to get this working, but am going to transcribe and document this for future use for myself.
Continue reading “MyLab: Smart Card Authentication”I am choosing to install VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 23.09 (current at the time of writing) so that I can access my Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) without the hassle of using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Continue reading “MyLab: VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG)”I am using VMware vSphere 7.0.3 for this lab. Before starting the deployment, ensure there are forward and reverse DNS records created for the ESXi host that vCenter will be installed on, the vCenter Server appliance itself, and optionally any NTP servers. Ideally, there should be localized NTP.
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