Jeramy Thompson

Update 10/2017:  Since starting this project  I was informed that such a thing already existed , so I will not be moving forward with this. You can use LinOTP in your enterprise environment. As a continuation of my previous post I wanted to see if I could build a simple server to to allow users to generate google authentication keys, and authenticate to Horizon View.  After some research I was finally able to get a 'functional' server up and running and easily deplorable. No going forward please realize as I said before this is a PROOF OF CONCEPT, you should not deploy this in your production environment, you have been warned (See notes at the end of this page), however if you want something to mess around with to build your own , here ya go. To being your going to need an ubuntu server, see my original posts Part1 and Part2 to get a working Ubuntu server in your environment.(make the username gauth as it will make ruining the config scripts easier) Once your have

Adding View to the Mix. Now that we have (almost) everything setup on the Linux server side, we just need to finish the view configuration and the client portion. Open up the View administrator, navigate to View Configuration > servers. Select the Connection Servers tab Select your Server and click the Edit button. in the "Edit Connection Server Settings" pop up window, change 2-Factor authentication to RADIUS Check enforce 2-factor and windows user name matching On Select Authenticator Select New. Update the fields with your information. We are now down with the View Configuration. download and install the google authenticator app for your device: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1066447?hl=en Now we sill set up the user to authenticate. Open up a putty session to your ubuntu server. type su someADusername you should now be logged in as that users run gauth, this will generate the QR code to scann from the install app on your

Installing Google Authenticator pbis-open and freeradius Now that we have the VM and Ubuntu installed, we now need to install our packages. First make sure you have a DNS record for the server in active directory, as we are going to need it. This must be done first! Also create a AD security group named: GG_S_GOOGLE_AUTH_DISABLED Once done, go back to your console and run the following: sudo su enter your password apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade say Y when prompted apt-get install ntp say Y when prompted apt-get install ntpdate should not prompt ntpdate pool.ntp.org Now we are going to install pbis-open for our connection to Active Directory wget -O - http://repo.pbis.beyondtrust.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-pbis|sudo apt-key add -  wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pbiso.list http://repo.pbis.beyondtrust.com/apt/pbiso.list  apt-get update apt-get install pbis-open say Y when prompted Once that completes we can Join our Ubuntu server to the domain. domainjoin

Installing Ubuntu 16.04 Now that the VM is powered on and you in the console window select English, then Install Ubuntu server. (some times it appears that its frozen, this is just the client having issues re-drawing, close and reopen the console and your good to go) Basic stuff here, choose English again Select your country don't detect keyboard layout (unless you have a non qwerty keyboard) Finish selecting your keyboard layouts. And wait for some stuff to load You will be prompted to give your server a host name. Put in the FQDN you plan to use. create a user, this is a local user so nothing fancy, and a password: For the purpose of this demo I have chosen not to encrypt my home directory. Select your time zone if the one that comes up is not correct. Unless you know what your doing just use the defaults for setting up the disk. Write your changes to the disk Select Continue And then Confirm. Bunch of stuff will install. You will be prom

Ok so I though this was going to be a simple step by step process. Considering there is already a published document out there on this.  However come to find out not only is this completely out dated, but half the stuff is wrong, Not only is this doc wrong in so many parts, but searching documentation on the internet is wrong as well. However after several days of testing, and looking up error codes, and then re-testing and chasing rabbits down holes that led me no where I finally got this up and running, and I'm able to consistently reproduce the results. I'm going to walk you step by step how to set this up for a single connection server for dual factor authentication. Part 1 : Get Ubuntu 16.04 and install it! Go over and grab the 16.04 LTS ISO  from ubuntu.com  (64 bit) Download it, put it on a Share in your vSphere environment so you can build a new VM. Once that is done lest build the VM. Always choose custom Give it a Name I d

You may get into a situation where your View VMs do not log off correctly. Typically this happens because the VM is waiting for an application to close and is prompting for user interaction. This is a common issue. This can be worked around by setting some registry keys in the HKCU hive. however this is quite cumbersome , so i have created a user GPO to do exactly this! I created this adm template that can be imported into AD and pushed to your VDI users, it allows you to change the following settings: AutoEndTasks: Determines whether user processes end automatically when the user either logs off or shuts down https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978604.aspx HungAppTimeout: Specifies how long the system waits for user processes to end after the user clicks the  End Task  command button in Task Manager . If this threshold is exceeded, the  End Task dialog box appears, stating that the process did not respond. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978614.aspx

VMwareView.MOF Purpose: To create a WMI framework for querying agent variables created on a View Desktop. Details: The MOF allows you to query the following: ViewClient_Broker_DNS_Name ViewClient_Broker_DomainName ViewClient_Broker_Remote_IP_Address ViewClient_Broker_Tunneled ViewClient_Broker_URL ViewClient_Broker_UserName ViewClient_Client_ID ViewClient_Displays_Number ViewClient_Displays_Topology ViewClient_IP_Address ViewClient_Keyboard_KeyDelayToRepeat ViewClient_Keyboard_KeyRepeatRate ViewClient_Keyboard_Language ViewClient_Keyboard_Layout ViewClient_Keyboard_NumFuncKeys ViewClient_Keyboard_NumIndicators ViewClient_Keyboard_NumKeys ViewClient_Keyboard_ScanCodeMode ViewClient_Keyboard_SubType ViewClient_Keyboard_Type ViewClient_Language ViewClient_Launch_ID ViewClient_Launch_SessionType ViewClient_LoggedOn_Domainname ViewClient_LoggedOn_Username ViewClient_MAC_Address ViewClient_Machine_Domain ViewClient_Machine_Name ViewClient_Mouse_Identif

In some instances you may want to get some information on the users that are logging in to the VM's. This is not easily accessible through View its self. So I have come up with a way get the information from the VM's themselves. First of all your going to need the MOF file i created in an earlier post here for the WMI queries. Install this into your parent image. You will also need the logon script , that runs at logon located here . And lastly a remote SQL database that will hold the data, I have taken the liberty of creating a script to create the database for you here. After running trough this, you will be able to query for users that logged in to a specific VM and find any additional information provided by the agent. So lets get started. Create a database with the script Open up Microsoft Management studio and connect to your database server, create a new database, and use the script to create a new table. Paste the contents of the script into a new q

The purpose of this post is to show how you can query the "Volatile Environment" variables from the View agent to get WMI information. I though I would share what I have done to maybe help others in similar situations. Requirements: The requirements for this view environment is to allow client drive redirection for internal users and disable it for external users. The users are always in the same pool, and in this case we only have one connection server and one security server. Because this is a feature that is either on or off and no built in way to control this, the thought is that we can create a GPO that and run off a WMI query to determine if the users are inside the network or outside of the network and disable client drive redirection based on the IP. Lets Filter! So we can create a simple GPO to disable CDR , however we do not want this to happen internally so we need something to query off of. It would seam this would be an easy task however I ran into the f