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Scenario Horizon View - "Failed to connect to Connection Server" when accessed via LB WIP or DNS alias Works fine when accessed with server FQDN Solution If you are facing this issue after upgrading to view 7.X, you are not alone! And this is not an issue. It's a new security feature part of 7.X and can be disable by steps mentioned in this KB. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2144768 All you need to do is  > Create file with the name locked.properties > Add line " checkOrigin=false" ( without quotes) > Save and copy this to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\conf folder on all your connection servers. > Reboot them or restart connection service on them one by one like you normally do

Scenario -:  We had a VDI user reporting issues connecting to his VDI machine. Checking View Admin page shows this VDI machine  First thing first 1) Checked vCenter and made sure that the VM is up and running, not down or suspended.  2) I could remote desktop to it and checked services 3) Restarted Agent Service. No luck 4) Rebooted VM, no luck there too. Started to look at the logs at this point C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\logs debug-2019-12-12-150326.txt 2019-12-12T15:03:35.940+10:00 DEBUG (25A0-26C4) <Thread-4> [AgentMessageSecurityHandler] Configuring message security (ON). 2019-12-12T15:03:36.033+10:00 DEBUG (25A0-26C4) <Thread-4> [BrokerUpdateUtility] Published CHANGEKEY request 2019-12-12T15:03:51.035+10:00 DEBUG (25A0-26C4) <Thread-4> [BrokerUpdateUtility] Timeout waiting for success response So looks like it was trying to change the Key, but wasn't successful. So I decided to push it from Connection server instead  1) Login to one of out View Connection Ser

We had a vCenter SSO user created for SRM and it's password expired. Here is how you can check it and fix it. User name is srm@vsphere.local 1) Login to VCSA with SSH and below are commands root@vcenterserver [ ] cd /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/ root@vcenterserver [ /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin ]# ./dir-cli user find-by-name --account srm --level 2 Enter password for administrator@vsphere.local: Account: srm UPN: srm@VSPHERE.LOCAL Account disabled: FALSE Account locked: FALSE Password never expires: FALSE Password expired: TRUE root@vcenterserver [ /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin ]# ./dir-cli user modify --account srm   --password-never-expires Enter password for administrator@vsphere.local: Password set to never expire for [srm]. root@vcenterserver [ /usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin ]# ./dir-cli password reset --account srm --password XXXXXXXX