#Mac OS Mojave. A Problem Occurred. The web page couldn’t be loaded when connecting to Wifi

This is a non virtualization based topic, but since I know many in the VMware community are working with a MacBook I just wanted to share this quick workaround about a malfunction I have when connecting to a public wifi since upgrading to Mac OS Mojave.

Once you connect to the public wifi instead of a captive window the following error shows up.

A Problem Occurred. The web page couldn’t be loaded

There seems to be an issue with displaying the captive screen within the integrated browser. What is the workaround? Open up another browser, like safari and bookmark/open the following page

http://captive.apple.com

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Horizon View Update to 7.0.1 warning: Connectivity problems due to changed tunnel settings

We observed a strange behaviour after updating from Horizon View 7.0.0 to 7.0.1. For whatever reason the tunneling settings within the Connection Server changed back to the initial settings (tunneled for HTTPS/Blast).

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This might have a severe impact if you have a Load-Balancer in front of it configured for Src-IP session persistence where a direct connection is a MUST.

Those settings define if the remote-session between the Horizon View Client and the View Agent within your virtual Desktop are either tuneled over the security/connection server or directly between the client & agent.

I know that this is not a common situation after the update, but I could not figure out what triggered this effect. Anyway to be in a save position, after updating please check the value to ensure they are fitting to your system design:

–> Deselect both checkmarks and you are back in business.