Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix ADM Cloud Service March 02, 2023 – Improvements to Web Insight; Deletion of inactive Citrix ADM Express accounts; schedule agent upgrades; View the versions of Citrix WAF and bot signatures; and more – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download EPA Libraries for Windows (updated March 3) and Mac (updated March 7)

Citrix Cloud

• New Citrix strategy and product innovations – cloud-only features (autoscale, export/import configs) coming to on-prem; StoreFront updates – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• Self-Service Migration of First-Generation Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Deployments to Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen – VMware Docs
• Download VMware Tools 12.2.0
• Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool – Instant Clone image handling for multiple pods from a single interface – RETOUW.NL
• Evaluation Guide for VMware App Volumes 4 – VMware Tech Zone

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Licensing: To remain compliant, the number of days since the last successful upload must not be greater than 90 days – Citrix Docs

Citrix FAS

• Citrix FAS: Information about Microsoft KB KB5014754: Certificate-based authentication changes on domain controllers – to prevent authentication failures, make sure you have the patch installed on both the Domain Controllers and all the issuing CA(s) – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix NetScaler

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.1 Build 42.47

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix ADM Cloud Service March 02, 2023 – Improvements to Web Insight; Deletion of inactive Citrix ADM Express accounts; schedule agent upgrades; View the versions of Citrix WAF and bot signatures; and more – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 13.1 Build 42.47

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud MCS Supports Windows MAK License Activation – Citrix Cloud Updates

VMware

• Horizon Accelerator add-on for Horizon Cloud Next-gen – provides you with ongoing day-0 to day-2 support – VMware Docs
• Horizon Helpdesk Utility fling is deprecated
• Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture Tools fling – wrapper for lmvutil to only enter password once – VMware Flings

Microsoft

• Announcing general availability of FSLogix 2210 hotfix 1! – Microsoft Tech Community

Other

• Roam settings for WebEx App – ROAMINGENABLED=1 – WebEx Deployment Guild for VDI

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM

• What’s new in Citrix WEM Cloud Service February 2023 – Using the web console, you can now add applications to assign to your users; WEM Tool Hub – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access (VPN) Client for Windows updated Feb 20

Citrix XenServer

• Download Citrix Workload Balancing virtual appliance 8.3.0 – For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix increased the memory recommendation for Cloud Connectors – Citrix Docs
• Videos of the new Citrix Cloud improved virtual apps and desktops launch experience – Citrix Cloud Updates

Microsoft

• FSLogix 2210 Known Issues – Microsoft Docs
• Download GPO Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (Office) updated February 21
• VMware ESXi 7.0 U3k Patch for Windows Server 2022 Secure Boot Issue – Günter Born
• Microsoft resources to help build and deepen your knowledge of Azure – Microsoft Tech Community

Other

• NVIDIA GRID 15.1 Control Panel is now a UWP app – register it for each user – vJonathan

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDA Privilege Escalation vulnerability – fixed in 2212, 2203 CU2, and 1912 CU6 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix MCS

• Get-ProvVmInUnknownPowerState – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2301.1 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app for Windows Security Bulletin – privilege elevation – fixed in 2212, 2203 CU2, and 1912 CU7 Hotfix 2 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2302 for Windows
• Citrix Workspace App installation fails on Windows Server 2012 R2 – Manually install the Edge WebView2 runtime version 109 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Citrix Secure Hub for iOS looks different – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• VMware Tech Zone article named Microsoft Teams Optimization with VMware Horizon updated Feb 17

Microsoft

• FSLogix version 2210 Recycle Bin feature causes long logons – Disable the RoamRecycleBin setting, or wait for Hotfix 1 – Microsoft Q&A

Other

• The NVIDIA VM-based DLS (license) appliance has security vulnerabilities related to options set for file-system partitions and access permissions for some files – workaround provided – NVIDIA Docs
• Liquidware ProfileUnity Release Notes v6.8.5 – e.g., FlexApp Cloaking allows FlexApps on boot to be hidden

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Required Citrix License Server Update – enables automatic license telemetry reporting to Citrix, or manually report licensing telemetry data to Citrix – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• What’s new in Citrix Workspace app 2302 – the new version will be released first to the customers who are subscribed to automatic updates – Citrix Docs

Citrix NetScaler

• End of sale (EoS) NetScaler (Citrix ADC) perpetually licensed hardware (MPX, SDX) and perpetual software (VPX/BLX) – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix NetScaler WAF Signature version 102 contains new signatures rules for the vulnerabilities identified in the week 2023-02-03 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access VPN Client for Windows updated February 7
• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries updated Feb 7

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud DaaS New Features February 2023 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 2212.1 (8.8.1) – multimonitor fix

Microsoft

• Nerdio for AVD upcoming version 4.7 release notes – e.g., Nerdio Advisor will provide cost modeling and optimization recommendations
• Microsoft FSLogix Release 2210 VHDX Disk Compaction in a Citrix environment with 22,000 users – CTP Matthias Schlimm

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix License Server for Windows – Version 11.17.2.0 Build 42000

Citrix HDX

• Citrix Teams Optimization updates – Intel graphics driver fixed; background blurring on Mac and Linux – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2301 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2302 for Linux

Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix ADC/NetScaler Standard Edition is End-of-sale in March 2023 – VPX 10 and VPX 25 are end-of-sale – all perpetual VPXs are end-of-sale – Citrix Product Matrix
• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 13.0 Build 90.7
• Show NetScaler SSL Profiles in one dashboard – Mick Hilhorst at Github

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix NetScaler – Advanced Clientless VPN – Julian Jakob

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Workspace Browser extension helps detect local Citrix Workspace app. Includes Service Continuity – Citrix Blog Post
• Download Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops updated Feb 3

Microsoft

• Microsoft Teams 1.6 – update history – Microsoft Docs
• Administrative template for Azure Virtual Desktop – watermarking, screen capture protection, RDP shortpath for managed networks – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix NetScaler ADC 13.0 is End-of-Maintenance in July 2023 – Citrix Product Matrix
• Citrix NetScaler ADC WAF Signature version 101 adds 12 rules – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud DaaS: A new option, Enable storage cost saving, is now available on the Disk Settings page when you create or update Azure catalogs. Downgrades to Standard HDD. – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Cloud DaaS: Some action names are changing in January 2023 – e.g., Update Machines renamed to Change Master Image  – Citrix Cloud Updates

VMware

• vMotion of VMware UAG is not supported? – VMware Communities
• In VMware Horizon 2212, the Administrators role does not include the Manage Certificates privilege

Microsoft

• Azure Compute Gallery best practices – For every 20 VMs that you create concurrently, we recommend you keep one replica. For example, if you create 1000 VM’s concurrently, you should keep 50 replicas – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Software 15.1 adds support for latest versions of Citrix, Horizon, and Windows – NVIDIA Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix HDX

• How to configure browser content redirection (BCR) for all the websites – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace App for macOS – Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 Series) Version: 23.01.0.53 (2301)
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2301 for Mac

Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix NetScaler ADC WAF Signature version 100 adds 16 rules – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries for Windows updated Jan 10

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud DaaS Delivery Groups now have a Block List option – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops updated Jan 13 – bugfixes

VMware

• VMware Horizon 7 is End of General Support after April 30 – VMware Lifecycle Matrix
• Download VMware Horizon 2212 – VMware Horizon 2212 is an ESB (Extended Service Branch) release
• VMware Horizon 8 2212 new features – e.g., Certificate Management from Horizon Console – VMware Blog Post
• Starting with the VMware Horizon 2212 release, Media Optimization for Teams is enabled if the group policy is not configured – VMware Docs
• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2212

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 Apps updated Jan 9

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer Tool updated Jan 5 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix ADC versions on the Internet show that thousands are still vulnerable to two critical security flaws – Fox IT

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Gateway design considerations: e.g., Direct Workload Connections don’t work during outages when Service Continuity is enabled – Citrix Blog Post

Microsoft

• Microsoft 365 Apps (Version 2302 or later) is supported on Windows Server 2022 – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix License Server for Windows – Version 11.17.2.0 Build 41000
• What’s new with Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops — December 2022 – Citrix Blog Post
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2212

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2211

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2212

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2212 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2212 for Windows – new features: Client App Management manages Secure Access Agent, End Point Analysis (EPA) plug-in, and Zoom plug-in; Anti-DLL Injection; reduce the Desktop Viewer launch time by 5 seconds

Citrix NetScaler

• Download Citrix ADC Release 13.0 Build 89.7

VMware

• VMware Horizon 8 Pods can now be connected to Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen to consume licensing – VMware Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU drivers updated in December with a security update

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