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Homelab VMware VMware Horizon

Horizon View Administrator Load Balancing

After setting up load balanced Horizon 7 Connection servers, I was immediately stonewalled at the View Administrator login screen (https://connection-server/admin). Nothing but a blank modal window with the date and time – zero error details.

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Citrix

Citrix “Cannot start app. Please contact your help desk.”

After standing up a new Citrix site from scratch, we found Citrix Receiver/Workspace apps configured on client workstations configured with SSO couldn’t launch applications.

After a few hours of checking event logs and enabling every Receiver/Workspace logging feature, I only found very generic errors. The most “relevant” error found in the Receiver/Workspace app log was:

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Group Policy Windows Server

Add Site to Trusted Sites Zone with Group Policy

Internet Explorer has four Security zones (numbered 1-4) which are used by the Site to Zone Assignment List policy to associate sites to:

  1. Intranet zone
  2. Trusted Sites zone
  3. Internet zone
  4. Restricted Sites zone

To add a site to the Trusted Sites zone, do the following:

  1. Create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) or edit a preexisting object
  2. Navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Internet Control Panel -> Security Page
  3. Select and open the “Site to Zone Assignment” List policy
  4. Set the policy to Enabled
  5. Click the “Show…” button
  6. In the pop-up window, each row represents a domain (Value name) and zone (Value) pair. Enter the site name in the “Value Name” field and 2 (for Trusted Sites zone) in “Value” field
    Add site to Trusted Sites Zone Group Policy
  7. Click OK