Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix 2203 is detecting public cloud VDAs during registration: “This public cloud VM VDA is not supported in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on-premises deployments” – Citrix Discussions
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2206, All Editions – Bidirectional content redirection supports wildcards and protocols other than HTTP/HTTPS; independent virtual display layouts on each session monitor; Multi-session VDA timer settings in Citrix Policy

Citrix VDA

• Citrix VDA Cleanup Utility updated June 2022 – Added support for cleanup of VDA 2203
• CVAD 2203: Termsrv.exe Intermittently Crashes Due To rpm.dll – private fix, or wait for Cumulative Update 1 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Script to upgrade VDA – Kris Davis CTA

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Profile Management 2206 new features – OneDrive Container preview, Concurrent session support for Outlook search roaming – Citrix Docs
  • The Evolution of Citrix Profile Management – CTP James Kindon
• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2206

Citrix Provisioning

• Citrix Provisioning 2206 supports Windows Server 2022 and SCVMM 2022 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2206 for Windows – Background blurring for Microsoft Teams optimization; Anti-code Injection; DPI matching is enabled by default
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2206.1 for Mac

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC SDX Bundle 13.1-24.40 – it has a fix for the SSL problem

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries (OPSWAT) for Windows updated Jun 28, 2022

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud now supports using Google as an identity provider to authenticate subscribers signing in to their workspaces – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Workspace ONE Intelligence for VMware Horizon is now available – prebuilt Horizon dashboards – VMware Blog Post
• List of VMware Product Resources – VMware Tech Zone

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 is set to reach End of Life on August 15, 2022 – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix VDA

• Citrix Host to Client (URL) redirection is now deprecated – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix VDA Hotfix for Teams not working with Error “Still connecting to remote devices. Calling is not available yet”

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2206 for HTML5
• Intermittent Session Launch Failure with Active/Active StoreFront Server Groups – ADC rewrite policies – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2206 for Mac
• Citrix Docs: for domain pass-through, these tables describe the different scenarios and whether you can achieve domain pass-through for each scenario or not.

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release 13.0 Build 86.17

Citrix Cloud

• Download Citrix Cloud migration tool Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops 3.0.52

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix VDA Hotfix for Teams not working with Error “Still connecting to remote devices. Calling is not available yet” – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2206 – Silverlight removed

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC SDX appliance release 13.1 build 21.50 or later, SSL decryption might fail – SSL handshake failures, VPX status flapping, unavailability of the VPX instance GUI, and virtual servers and application going down – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• On-prem Citrix ADM vulnerability – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Gateway

• In recent builds of Citrix Gateway, if you see login looping back to login page, then set session timeout on the Client Experience tab in session profiles to 720 – Citrix Discussions
• Download Citrix Secure Access Client (VPN) for Windows version -22.6.1.5

Citrix Cloud

• New features in Citrix Cloud June 2022 – upgrade VDA on MCS-provisioned persistent machines; display the region name information for Azure objects; restart schedule for single-OS machines; and more – Citrix Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix HDX

• Teams: Background blurring tech preview is now available with CWA for Windows 2206 EAR – Citrix Downloads
• Teams: MultiWindow (a.k.a pop-out chat) is available in Ring 4 (GA) – requires CWA for Win 2112.1, Mac/Linux 2203, VDA 2112 and Teams 1.5.00.11865 – Tweet from Citrix Product Manager

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2205.6.1 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• DPI matching is enabled by default in Citrix Workspace app 2206 but Citrix 7.15 does not support it – If 7.15, use older CWA, or disable DPI matching. – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC WAF Signature version 87 adds 16 rules including VMware Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• Download Citrix ADC Release 13.1 Build 24.38

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release 13.1 Build 24.38

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries (OPSWAT) for Mac OS X updated June 9

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Docs article Size and scale considerations for Cloud Connectors has been rewritten.
• Citrix Cloud June 2022: Support for organizing machine catalogs using folders – Citrix Docs
• Citrix is developing: Automatically release cloud licenses within Licensing console for users who haven’t used the service for more than 30 days – Citrix Cloud Updates
• July 3, 2023 is End of Life (EOL) for Microapps service – Microapps entitlement will be removed from #Citrix Workspace Service plans and customers will no longer have access to the Microapps service or functionality. – Citrix Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix HDX

• Microsoft Teams impact on Citrix user density – 40% scalability impact with Microsoft Teams Workload (81 users), when compared to Baseline (137 users); ~50% increase in IOPS write; 20% extra memory required – Citrix Docs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• What’s new in Citrix WEM Cloud service May 2022 – enroll WEM Agents on physical machines without Cloud Connector – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace App for macOS – Native support for Apple Silicon – Tech Preview – Citrix will soon deprecate the Citrix Workspace app for Mac that uses Rosetta emulation

Citrix ADC

• High severity DoS vulnerability in Citrix ADC 12.1-64.16; also, medium severity in HDX Insight for EDT/DTLS
• Citrix ADC WAF Signature version 86 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware Tools Medium Severity vulnerability – fixed in version 12.0.5
• VMware App Volumes Multi-Instance Management now added to VMware Tech Zone articles

Microsoft

• Announcing FSLogix 2201 hotfix 1 (2.9.8171.14983) has been released! – Cloud Cache fix; VM crash fixed – Microsoft Tech Community
• Keep the Microsoft Teams desktop app in your VDI environment up to date. Teams versions more than 90 days older than the current version aren’t supported and show a blocking page to users that request that they update their app.  – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Software 14.1 – security fix; support for latest Citrix and VMware Horizon

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2205 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Web App Firewall (WAF) signature version 85 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Citrix Application Delivery Management April 2022 Monthly Webinar recording – 46-minute YouTube video

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway OPSWAT EPA Libraries for Windows updated May 17, 2022

VMware

• VMware Horizon 7.13 End of Support is now 2023, April 30 – VMware Product Lifecycle Matrix
• VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager have Critical severity range vulnerability
• CISA Issues Emergency Directive Related to VMware Access (Identity Manager) Vulnerabilities
• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2203.1

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Software 13.3 and 11.8 released May 2022
• Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – May 2022

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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 39000 – Apache version update

Citrix VDA

• The Citrix VDA Cleanup Utility is UNSUPPORTED with VDA Versions beyond 1912. DO NOT run the VDA Cleanup Utility on a VDA Machine that has a newer version of the VDA Software installed. – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2204

Citrix HDX

• Give and Take control is now enabled in Microsoft Teams and Citrix HDX – tweet from Citrix Product Manager

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2205 for Linux

Citrix ADC

• From Citrix ADC release 13.1 build 21.x onwards, you have the option to increase disk space on the Citrix ADC VPX instance by adding a second disk. – Citrix Docs
• Citrix ADC WAF Signatures versions 83 and 84 block the VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager vulnerabilities – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download EPA Libraries (OPSWAT) for Mac OS X updated May 10

VMware

• Horizon Cloud on Azure version 2204 Release Notes – Windows 11 support; AMD GPU support; resize individual dedicated machines – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Nerdio version v4.1 release notes

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2204 for Mac

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release 12.1 Build 65.15
• Citrix ADC WAF Signature version 82 blocks Microsoft HTTP Protocol Stack (including IIS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-21907)

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM March 2022 Monthly Webinar – 1-hour YouTube video

Citrix Cloud

• Many new features released in Citrix Cloud during April 2022 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• New VMware Horizon Editions – Help Desk tool in all editions; vSAN in Enterprise Plus and Universal; VMware Workspace ONE Access in all editions

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Session Recording 2204 – bug fixes

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix StoreFront 2203.1 (3.23.1) – fix for callback and STA issue

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway Opswat EPA Libraries for Windows updated Apr 21, 2022

Citrix Cloud

• Several Azure enhancements in Citrix Cloud – e.g., Support for provisioning Azure AD joined VMs and Microsoft Intune auto enrollment
• Citrix Cloud now supports 10,000 single-session machines and 1,000 multi-session machines per resource location – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client for macOS 2203.1

Other

• ControlUp 8.6.5 release notes

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix HDX

• Roadmap for Citrix HDX Optimization for Microsoft Teams – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix StoreFront

• Reflected Cross Site Scripting vulnerability fixed in Citrix StoreFront 2203 LTSR and StoreFront 1912 LTSR CU5 – Citrix Security Bulletin
• Download Citrix StoreFront 3.12.9000- For XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR – security fix – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1912 LTSR CU7 Hotfix 1 (19.12.7001) – Teams fix – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Release Notes for Citrix ADC 13.1–21.50 – VMware ESXi 7.0 update 3c support; View details of the SSL chip utilization – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix ADC Release 13.1 Build 21.50
• Citrix ADC MPX 9100 – 1U appliance with eight 25 Gbps ports – 30 Gbps max throughput – SDX option too – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM On-Prem 13.1 build 12 and newer Express edition Vserver entitlement has been reduced to 2 from previously supported 30 Vservers – Citrix Downloads

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Connector supports Windows Server 2022 – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Cloud Updates – Stay up to date on new and upcoming Citrix technologies and features – citrix.com

VMware

• VMware DEM 2203 and newer move FlexEngine licensing to the DEM Console – VMware Docs
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service Next-Generation DaaS Architecture – VMware Tech Zone

Microsoft

• Windows versions and Office versions support matrix – no Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows Serer 2022; Office LTSC is supported – microsoft.com
• Azure Virtual Desktop RDP UDP Shortpath for public networks – similar to Citrix Cloud Rendezvous Protocol and EDT? – Microsoft Tech Community

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