Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Optimizations available in 2308 vs 2203 – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2309 for Windows – requires admin privileges to install .NET Desktop Runtime 6.0 – offline installer option

Citrix Gateway

• (Update October 6, 2023) IBM: X-Force uncovers global NetScaler Gateway credential harvesting campaign – Security Intelligence

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS new app highlight – When an admin delivers a new app, it is highlighted on the end user’s workspace with a green dot – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Before January 31, 2024, upgrade VMware Horizon agents and client versions to version 2103 or later to continue to use Microsoft Teams optimized video calling and screen sharing – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Operating System Upgrade for a VMware Horizon Server – VMware does not support in-place upgrade of the OS – VMware Knowledgebase article
• VMware Horizon subscription expiration – customers with on-premises pods will have access to Horizon for a 90-day period after expiration – VMware Knowledgebase article
• End of Life (EOL) of the VMware Horizon Cloud First-Gen control plane is now extended to January 31, 2025 – VMware Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• New Microsoft Teams for Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure – Windows Server 2016 is NOT supported; certified with Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365, Citrix, and VMware – Microsoft Docs
• Use Microsoft OneDrive with a RemoteApp in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – requires Windows 11 Insider Preview Enterprise multi-session, version 22H2, build 25905 or later – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Windows 2012 R2 is EOL on October 10, 2023 – I have OS replacement guidance for #Citrix components at https://carlstalhood.com/cvad-upgrades/#deliverycontrollers and the following sections. Citrix does not support in-place OS upgrades. StoreFront does not support mixed OS versions.
• Manage Local Host Cache (LHC) on your Citrix Delivery Controllers using PowerShell commands – Citrix Docs

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2309

Citrix HDX

• Microsoft Teams calls between endpoints with a future release of Citrix Workspace app and endpoints with Citrix Workspace app 2108 or older versions will not be supported – Citrix Docs

Citrix Provisioning

• Citrix Image Portability Service can automate reverse-imaging a PVS vDisk to a native VMware VMDK – Citrix Cloud Updates

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2309 for Mac – Support for macOS 14 Sonoma
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2309 for Linux

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler WAF Signatures v113 includes mitigations for three CISA published vulnerabilities for Ignite Realtime Openfire, Adobe Commerce, and Ivanti MobileIron Sentry – NetScaler Community
• Download NetScaler firmware release 14.1 Build 8.50
• NetScaler Build 14.1-8.50 release notes – bind WAF policy to Gateway; new reducer for HDX; more SmartControl options; no more SSL settings on vServers (SSL Profiles required); no support for MPX 11500 series
• v0.3.0 of Let’s Encrypt integration for NetScaler – CoreLayer – Github

NetScaler ADM

• Download NetScaler ADM Release 14.1 Build 8.50
• NetScaler ADM Build 14.1-8.50 release notes – connect ADM On-Prem to ADM Cloud for Security Advisory feature; GUI rebranded to NetScaler ADM
• NetScaler ADM Agents Best practice deployment and monitoring – NetScaler Community

Citrix XenServer

• Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Rocky Linux 9, CentOS Stream 9, and Debian Bookworm 12 – XenServer Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS Autoscale Insights

VMware

• VMware Horizon Cloud next-gen new features – fault tolerance for Horizon Edge; True SSO (Microsoft CA) support

Microsoft

• Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2026 – Azure Updates
• On 30 September 2025, default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines in Azure will be retired – use explicit outbound connectivity methods such as Azure NAT Gateway – Azure Updates

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Web Studio and StoreFront must be installed on separate machines – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2308 – Support for vSAN 8.0; Auto-expansion policies for profile containers
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR, Cumulative Update 8

Citrix HDX

• On January 31, 2024, Microsoft will retire the Teams support for Single-window UI when using VDI Teams optimization and support only the Multi-Window experience – Customers must upgrade their Citrix VDA to 2203 and CWA to 2203 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Microsoft has enabled Teams Secondary Ringtone 100% for Citrix Workspace app release 2307.1 and greater – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2308 – on-prem web console; Edge browser support for WEM Transformer
• What’s New in Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) cloud service – web console supports registry entries and file system operations; review the privilege elevation logs in the web console – Citrix Docs

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 2308 – Support for provisioning target devices in untrusted domain; Target Device wizard can provide login servers for UEFI target VMs when using BDM boot; Windows 11 on Nutanix AHV 6.5 Long Term Support (LTS)

Citrix StoreFront

• What’s new in Citrix StoreFront 2308 – Advanced Health Check enabled by default; App protection for hybrid launches; XenApp 6.5 removed from console – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2308 for Mac

Citrix Gateway

• Update Citrix Secure Access and SSO apps to 23.09.1 before upgrading OS on Mac and iOS devices – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Licensing domain name truncation:  allows unique users to be counted based on their account name alone, disregarding the domain name portion of the username – reduces license usage – Citrix Cloud Updates

Microsoft

• Nerdio for AVD Version v5.3 Release Notes – VM Right-Sizing for Dedicated Desktops; Scripted Actions can now be delegated to users to run on their own desktop

Other

• Zoom Security bulletin: Improper authentication in Zoom clients (including VDI clients)

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops 3.0.91 updated Sept 7 – Fixed issue with importing Admin Folders

Citrix HDX

• Download Citrix HDX Audio Diagnostic Tool 1.0

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2309 for HTML5

NetScaler ADC

• CISA’s article on NetScaler vulnerability CVE-2023-3519 has been updated
• Download Citrix ADC NetScaler Release 13.0 Build 92.18

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix NetScaler Gateway EPA Libraries for Windows updated Sept 8

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix support for creating MCS machine catalogs in a vSAN 8 environment is “Releasing” – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Citrix Session Recording service What’s new September 2023 – Audio recording for non-optimized HDX audio; Lossy screen recording; Fast seeking through ICA screen recording – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware App Volumes 4, version 2212.7 – bug fixes

Microsoft

• Download Microsoft AVD Remote Desktop WebRTC Redirector Service for Teams updated Sept 7

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• New Citrix App Protection features – Policy Tampering Detection; Posture Check (only Workspace app with these capabilities is allowed to connect to the VDA) – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer Tool updated Aug 28 – Fixed an issue that unselected items are still executed in the back end.

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2308 for Linux

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler WAF Signatures Update v112 – includes two 9.8 (Critical) CVSS v3 rules, namely CVE-2023-29357 Microsoft SharePoint Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability and CVE-2023-32563 Ivanti Avalanche – NetScaler Community
• NetScaler Connect Webinar August 2023 – Watch on demand – NetScaler Community

NetScaler ADM

• NetScaler ADM Stylebooks support Infoblox DDI as an external IPAM provider – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Analytics for Performance What’s New Aug 2023 – Anomalous Session Disconnects Baseline Insight shows deviation from the baseline value – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Device Posture service is now supported on iOS platforms – the EPA client is built in as part of the Citrix Workspace app for iOS – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Gateway Service Release Notes – configure users to connect to PoPs in a particular region or only through a particular cloud service provider regardless of the users’ location; view performance data related to the Connector-Gateway PoP latency

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 12.3.0 – security fix
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen Release Notes August 2023 – customized client access URL like <custom_subdomain>.vmwhorizon.com; LDAPS for Active Directory domains; Multi-session pool groups rolling maintenance – VMware Docs
• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2306.1
• VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Horizon 2.6.1 is now available – Cameron Fore

Other

• What’s New in NVIDIA vGPU Software R535 16.1

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Profile Management Configuration Checking Tool updated Aug 17

Citrix Provisioning

• New Citrix Provisioning Guidelines – Avoid Modifying the Threads Per Port and Streaming Ports. Do Not Disable Task/TCP/Large Send Offloading – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2308 for HTML5

Citrix XenServer

• https://xenserver.com is live, and along with it the XenServer 8 public preview!
• What’s new in XenServer since Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 – Windows 11 is now supported on XenServer – XenServer Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS: Retrieve a list of orphaned resources in Azure – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Announcing general availability of FSLogix 2210 hotfix 2! – Microsoft Tech Community

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Automated Configuration 3.0.90 for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops updated Aug 14

Citrix App Layering

• Citrix App Layering with FSLogix Cloud Cache: login failures and a frozen logout screen displays logout failures – Exclude the C:\ProgramData\FSLogix\ folder tree from App Layering’s management – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• Indicators of Compromise Scanner for Citrix ADC Zero-Day (CVE-2023-3519) – Mandiant
• Approximately 2000 Citrix NetScalers backdoored in mass-exploitation campaign – Fox-IT
• NetScaler 13.0 filesystem filling up with mastools-xxx files in /var/core/<number>/ – Citrix Discussions

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS Hosting Connection: To route Azure API requests through Citrix Cloud Connectors, select the Route traffic through Citrix Cloud Connectors check box – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Cloud custom Workspace URL: You can now upload your own TLS certificate – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 12.2.6 – fixes Site Recovery Manager issue
• The VMware Horizon Infrastructure Monitoring feature in Horizon Cloud Service First-Gen is being deprecated. The Infrastructure Tab under Dashboard in the Horizon Universal Console will no longer be available after September 20th, 2023 – VMware Knowledgebase article

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Provisioning

• You must return and reallocate your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Provisioning licenses if you are on Citrix Provisioning 1912 LTSR CU7 and later CUs, 2203 LTSR CU3 and later CUs, 2305 and later – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307.1 for Windows – Teams fix

NetScaler ADC

• Download NetScaler 14.1
• NetScaler 13.1 is not end of life until 15-Sep-27 – Citrix Product Matrix
• How to use the Extended Storefront monitor with NetScaler versions prior to 14.1 – NetScaler Community Article

NetScaler ADM

• NetScaler ADM: File Integrity Monitoring shows NetScaler instances that have any alterations or additions to the original NetScaler build files – NetScaler Docs
• Download NetScaler ADM Release (Feature Phase) 14.1 Build 4.42

Citrix Gateway

• Download NetScaler Gateway Secure Access VPN Client 23.8.1.5
• Download EPA libraries for Windows updated Aug 9

Citrix Cloud

• Several new Citrix Cloud features – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Session Details page from Citrix Analytics for Performance is now integrated in DaaS Monitor – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Search Citrix DaaS Monitor Session Launch Diagnostics starting with the username if you don’t have the transaction id – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Citrix DaaS Monitor probes can be scheduled to run every 15 minutes – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Nerdio v5.2 for AVD release notes

Other

• Critical Vulnerabilities in Zoom VDI Client – Zoom Security Bulletins

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix testing results showed that Windows 10 multi-session instances accommodated 30% fewer users than Windows Server operating systems (Server 2019 or 2022) – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix Provisioning

• As of Citrix Provisioning v2305, 1912-CU7, and 2203-CU3, the product will always consume a PVS standalone license for each target – get updated license files – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307 for Windows

NetScaler ADC

• WAF Signature update version 111 for August 2023 adds 5 rules for Ivanti EndPoint Manager Mobile and Zimbra – NetScaler Docs
• NetScaler Community Articles on the new WAF signatures

Citrix Gateway

• Download EPA Libraries for Mac OS X released Aug 4

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 2212.1
• VMware Horizon Server contains a HTTP request smuggling vulnerability – Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.3 – VMware Security Advisory

Other

• NVIDIA GPU Manager for VMware vCenter Release 1.1 – security update; new dark theme; languages – NVIDIA Docs

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