FIXING VMWARE HORIZON ADMIN CONSOLE ERROR FOR GOOGLE CHROME

 

FIXING VMWARE HORIZON ADMIN CONSOLE  ERROR FOR GOOGLE CHROME 

 

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As soon as I read about it, I didn’t feel any good. Very colorful and very much evident, I really liked the flex admin console for VMware Horizon. But when the support for flash ended, everything changed. Now, I have an admin console which was not colorful and to add to my misery, the UI/UX was too distorted. Anything would appear anywhere for no reason at all. I had started becoming pissed off and I would have totally avoided logging into the console, only if I had a choice.

The next thing I did was, I installed Google Chrome on my system. I was hopeful that it might work fine with Chrome. Well, it didn’t. It didn’t work at all.

I have been into EUC for almost 3 years now and VMware has my complete faith. With this faith in my heart and utmost curiosity in my mind, I simply did what I was supposed to do, I googled about it. Actually, I have more faith in google, I guess.

I figured out that the issue is a very common issue and there’s also a KB article from VMware related to this error.

 

Below mentioned is the link to the KB article from VMware

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2144768

 

How I resolved it?

 

1.    Login to Connection Server.

2.    Create a text file named locked.properties in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\con or if locked.properties  already exists, Open the  file using a plain text editor.

3.       Add this line:

checkOrigin=false

Note: Ensure the locked.properties file is not in .txt extension after saving

 

4.    Save and close the file.

5.    Restart the VMware Horizon View Connection Server service.

 

Cause:

This behavior is observed with new security feature included in Horizon 7. The View Administration page in Horizon 7 checks the origin URL for the web request, and rejects the request if the URL is not https://localhost/admin or https://URL_used_in_Secure_Tunnel_URL_Field/admin.

Note, Several scenarios within an environment - loadbalancer, VPN's  configuration etc can trigger this feature.