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VMware View API - Change recovery password

po-temkin — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:15:25 GMT

Hello to everyone
I want to edit Recovery Password for my Horizon Connection Server. Below, you can see a couple of functions that should do this. But instead of a successful result, I see an error:

PS C:\Windows\system32> $Password = '12345678' PS C:\Windows\system32> $Password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Password -AsPlainText -Force PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-HvRecoveryPasswordExt -Password $Password Exception calling "GlobalSettings_Update" with "1" argument(s): "ExceptionType : VMware.Hv.InvalidArgument ErrorMessage : Invalid recovery password hash. ParameterName : dataRecoveryPasswordData" At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\VMware.Hv.Helper.Ext\VMware.Hv.Helper.Ext.psm1:1627 char:5 + $services.GlobalSettings.GlobalSettings_Update($updates) + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : VimException RecoveryPasswordSHA256 RecoveryPasswordHint ---------------------- -------------------- {123, 35, 45, 65...}

What's wrong with my approach? P.S: Documentation page https://developer.vmware.com/apis/1696/view

function Set-HvRecoveryPasswordExt { param( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] [securestring] $Password, [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [string] $Hint ) begin { $services = Get-ViewAPIService -hvServer $hvServer if ($null -eq $services) { Write-Error "Could not retrieve ViewApi services from connection object" break } } process { $tempPassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($Password) $plainePassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($tempPassword) $Stream = [IO.MemoryStream]::new([byte[]][char[]]$plainePassword) $SHA256 = (Get-FileHash -InputStream $Stream -Algorithm SHA256).Hash $SHA256Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($SHA256) $GlobalSettingsDataRecoveryPasswordData = New-Object VMware.Hv.GlobalSettingsDataRecoveryPasswordData -Property @{ recoveryPasswordSHA256 = $SHA256Bytes recoveryPasswordHint = $Hint } $updates = Get-MapEntryExt -Key dataRecoveryPasswordData -Value $GlobalSettingsDataRecoveryPasswordData $services.GlobalSettings.GlobalSettings_Update($updates) } end { return $updates [System.gc]::collect() } }

Vmware.HvHelper auto import

po-temkin — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:53:03 GMT

Hi everyone

In our production i using Ansible to run PowerCLI scripts using win_shell. It is equal to run script localy.
But each execution running in new PowerShell session and every time i see some time lag which occurring because module importing.

Can I import HvHelper module once and for all?

Re: Error in Vmware Horizon Connection Server installation on Windows Server 2019

po-temkin — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:29:15 GMT

It was a very specific and interesting task but we finally resolve this problem yesterday.

After many different test on different VMs we understood that problem occur because group policies. Not without lucky we found definite policy which corrupted installation process.

To automate some tasks I installed PowerCLI on Horizon VM. Because our production VMs don't have internet connection the fisrt run of PowerCLI script took a long time. Usually PowerCLI scripts run through Ansible and each new task execute in new powershell session what created sensible time lag.
To resolve this problem we created policy which off two parameters in IE:

Check for publisher's certificate revocation
Check for server sertificate revocation

Because group policy haven't option for first parameter we found suitable value in registry hive HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing. We don't know how it happened but we found value REG_DWORD 0x146B44. And this value was wrong.

According to this link we needed 0x00023e00. After changing this value installation completed successfully.

Re: Error in Vmware Horizon Connection Server installation on Windows Server 2019

po-temkin — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 15:37:44 GMT

You aren't correct because i'm trying to install first instance. Another instances wich I have aren't relate with this installation

Re: Error in Vmware Horizon Connection Server installation on Windows Server 2019

po-temkin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:53:59 GMT

Only Kaspersky as you can see on screenshot.
But this isn't a first horizon installation. We have another installations and earlie everything was ok.
My last installation attempt was couple of month ago and everthing that changed are some windows updates.

Re: Error in Vmware Horizon Connection Server installation on Windows Server 2019

po-temkin — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:04:28 GMT

1) Yes

2) This is a first CS in cluster

3) Yes

4) Yes

5) Yes

Error in Vmware Horizon Connection Server installation on Windows Server 2019

po-temkin — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:52:16 GMT

Hello for everyone
I trying to install Horizon Connection Server 2212 on fresh Win Server 2019 but catch this error
Is anyone seen something like this?

Some messages from adamsetup.log:
adamsetup 83C.15C8 0415 11:57:19.529 Enter ImportLDIFFile
adamsetup 83C.15C8 0416 11:57:19.529 Enter State::GetMyLDAPPort 389
adamsetup 83C.15C8 0417 11:57:19.529 Enter State::UseRemoteCreds false
adamsetup 83C.15C8 0418 11:57:19.529 Running ldifde.exe -i -h -w 300 -j . -s localhost:389 -f MS-ADAM-Upgrade-2.ldf -$ "adamschema.cat"
adamsetup 83C.15C8 0419 11:57:19.529 Enter State::GetMyDir C:\Windows\ADAM
adamsetup 83C.15C8 041A 11:57:34.605 ldifde.exe returned with error code 0x80092026
adamsetup 83C.15C8 041B 11:57:34.605 Enter State::SetFinishMessage AD LDS Setup did not complete because one or more LDIF files could not be imported successfully.
adamsetup 83C.15C8 041C 11:57:34.605 Enter State::SetFinishError
adamsetup 83C.15C8 041D 11:57:34.605 Enter Feedback::ShowMessage Undoing installation...