Citrix NetScaler Gateway: NPS Extension for Azure MFA fails after introducing the Microsoft Domain Controller security baseline

Microsoft offers a nice set of security baseline GPOs, for direct use in your Active Directory environment. If you make use of the “MSFT Windows Server 2022 – Domain Controller” policy, your NPS installation might start to fail.

Introduction

Many of you probably have a Citrix NetScaler Gateway installation based on the following concept:

Manuel Winkel (deyda):

Microsoft Azure MFA Cloud Service in Citrix ADC

Thomas Preischl:

Citrix ADC / Netscaler Azure MFA Authentication

Those articles describe, how someone can implement Azure MFA with Microsoft Authenticator App pushOTP and an on-premises Microsoft NPS server, without making use of SAML, which is necessary, if you use the ICAProxy Gateway only license for Citrix NetScaler Gateway.
Continue reading “Citrix NetScaler Gateway: NPS Extension for Azure MFA fails after introducing the Microsoft Domain Controller security baseline”