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vCenter 5.5 - Unable to Grant Permission to Domain ID - No Domain Listed

One fine day, someone came to me and asked, " I can't add domain users to vCenter. Can you help?" So, when I checked, I found this : So yes, no domain listed there. So when I asked in detail, it seems this was a new deployment, vCenter just being created. Which really helped me to narrow down to root cause. Issues : Unable to Grant Permission to Domain ID - No Domain Listed  Troubleshooting  Login to vCenter using default admin ID ( [email protected] ). These steps shall be done from Web Console rather than vSphere Client.    Click at Administration Click at Single Sign-On > Configuration . So as we can see here, only vSphere.local and vCenterServer (Default) are configured in Identity Sources. It means, these are the only domains which can be authenticated to. Resolution :  Click at Add Identity Source.  Depending on the environment, appropriately choose identity source type . For this example, it is Act

How To Configure Pass-Through on Citrix Web Interface

I received a request by my clients to enable pass-through to their Citrix Web Interface site. Not more than a few minutes after completion, they made a few complaints, saying that they needed to supply their credentials every time they launched published applications, which defeats the Single Sign-On (SSO) purposes. After a few minutes of troubleshooting, I realized that, in order to enable pass-through, there are more steps need to be taken, not simply enabling the feature. Description : Properly enabling Pass-Through, so users wot have to supply credentials every time they launched Citrix published applications, as below : How To Do :  Uninstall current installed Citrix Receiver Once un-installation completed, open command prompt, and type CMD  Browse to the installer location, and run command (  CitrixReceiver.exe /includeSSON )to install Receiver with SSON enabled Proceed with installation When you can see this in P