Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Recent Citrix graphics recommendations – enable CitrixIDD, enable UseMultiGPUs, 22 fps bug. IDD will be default provider in an upcoming CVAD release – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer Tool Updated Sept 22, 2022 – Added support for Windows 11 version 22H2 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix Known Issues for Windows 11 22H2 Update – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix Session Recording Cloud Service can archive and delete recordings automatically – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2209 for Mac

Citrix ADC

• New rules in Citrix ADC WAF Signature update for September 2022 (version 92) – Citrix Docs
• New appliance Citrix ADC MPX 16000 – eight 25G SFP+ ports and four 100G QSFP28 Ethernet ports

VMware

• Windows 11 version 2H22 now contains the VMware PVSCSI driver and VMware VMXNET3 driver as inbox drivers. – VMware Tech Zone

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2209 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Bot signature update 13 for August 2022 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download EPA Libraries for Windows updated Sep 12
• Download EPA Libraries for Mac OS X updated Sep 12
• Post about Citrix ADC Always On VPN with Machine & User Tunnel Configuration – CTA Julian Jakob

Citrix Cloud

• Download Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops (Citrix Cloud migration tool) updated September 6

VMware

• VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen Architecture – VMware Tech Zone

Microsoft

• From Microsoft Program Manager: “we do intend to support M365 on Windows Server 2022” – Microsoft Tech Community
• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office updated Sep 15
• Nerdio for AVD v4.3 release notes – e.g., Automatically remove desktops from personal host pool when these desktops have not been used for an extended period

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download VDA 2203 Cumulative Update 1 re-released to fix upgrade issue
• Shellbridge is available in VDA 2203 CU1 – Shellbridge fixes: missing password field in published Office apps, Outlook notifications, File Explorer not refreshing – Citrix Knowledgebase articles

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• WEM Administration Console – Part 2 (System Optimization, Policies & Profiles and Security) – CTP Manuel Winkel

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC firmware 13.1 Build 30.52
• Citrix ADC WAF Signature version 91 update for August 2022 adds 20 rules

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release 13.1 Build 30.52

VMware

• New builds of VMware App Volumes – e.g. 2111.4
• What’s New in vSphere 8
• Download Unified Access Gateway 2207.1 – fix for Tunnel Server (Workspace ONE)

Microsoft

• Windows Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool (VDOT) updated Aug 29 – GitHub

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2208

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2208.1 for Mac

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 12.1.0 – fixes security vulnerability
• VMware Horizon As Built Report PowerShell module – Github

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix Profile Management configuration for fastest logon – Solution 1:  Profile streaming + Profile streaming for folders + Accelerate folder mirroring. Solution 2:  Profile container for the entire user profile – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2208 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app LTSR 22.03.1000 for Windows
• The Citrix Workspace app for Mac 2208 has been rolled back due to a bug – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries for Windows updated Aug 19, 2022

VMware

• VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen documentation

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2203 LTSR, Cumulative Update 1

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 2203 LTSR, Cumulative update 1

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC 13.0 Build 87.9
• Citrix ADC 13.1-27.x onwards supports VMware ESXi 7.0 update 3d – Citrix Docs

Other

• Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – August 2022 – 7.8 CVSS score

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning Services 7.15.45 (in 7.15 LTSR CU9)

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2207 for Windows – Background blurring or effects for Microsoft Teams optimization with HDX

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Security Vulnerability: Unauthenticated redirection to a malicious website – fixed in recent builds – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Cloud

• Upcoming Citrix Cloud features – e.g., change the Azure VDA storage type to a lower tier at shutdown and restore the storage tier when the VM is powered on; SAML group-based administration within Citrix Cloud – Citrix Cloud Updates

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• What’s new in Citrix WEM Cloud Service July 2022 – Configure Windows GPOs by using Group Policy Administrative Templates

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2207 for HTML5

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release 13.1 Build 27.62

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Licensing APIs to release expired licenses are now available – Citrix Developer Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 2206

Microsoft

• Download FSLogix 2201 hotfix 2 (2.9.8228.50276)

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Antivirus best practices changed for VDA and PVS – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix VDA

• Citrix 1912 CU5, 2112, 2203 and 2206: Session may appear to start, but the user is never connected – Support has a fix – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix App Layering

• WMI applications (e.g., SSMS) no longer work after upgrading to App Layering 2206. Specifically, anything that uses the GAC_MSIL directory – Citrix Support has a fix – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• New report added to App Layering Reporting blog to list all image templates with layers, layer priority and layer version information – Citrix Rob Zylowski

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.1 Build 27.59
• Citrix ADC WAF Signature version 89 adds 16 rules – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2207
• VMware Horizon 7.13.2 cannot be upgraded to Horizon 2111 – Wait for next 8.x release – VMware Knowledgebase article

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR / XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR, Cumulative Update 9 – All Editions

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2207 for Linux

VMware

• Download VMware App Volumes 4, version 2203.1 – bug fixes

Microsoft

• Nerdio v4.2 release notes – 23 new features – e.g., report on precise per-individual-user AVD costs

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