Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Windows 10 1903 is supported in Citrix VAD 1903 or newer and 7.15 LTSR CU4 or newer – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Optimizer – v2.5.0.60 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Access Control for SaaS and Web apps in on-premises StoreFront – Preview
  • Access Control for SaaS and web apps from on-prem StoreFront – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix ADC

• Detailed configuration guide for OTP Push Notifications – 24 pages – Srinivasan Shanmugam on LinkedIn
• Download Citrix ADC BLX image 13.0 Build 36.27 – Linux RPMs for bare metal deployment of ADC
• Citrix ADC CPX as Sidecar and Istio Support for Service Mesh Architecture – and Service Graphs for Cloud Native Services – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Intelligent Workspace

• Citrix virtual assistant – Synergy Session on YouTube
• New Citrix Workspace intelligence – microapps, workspace assistance, and search – Citrix Blog Post
• Citrix Intelligent Workspace Microapp Data Flow – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Managed Desktops documentation – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud – use G Suite credentials to access Citrix Workspace; Google calendar personalized feeds within Citrix Workspace – Citrix Press Release

VMware

• How Horizon Connections are formed and how the traffic flows – VMware Tech Zone

Other

• What’s new in ControlUp V7.4 – triggers can run script actions, easier to find scripts, email templates

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• How to Build A Virtual Desktop (VDI) Experience Properly Cheat Sheet – CTP Jason Samuel
• Download Citrix License Server for Windows – Version 11.15.0.0 Build 27000 – new Dashboard and Cloud Registration
• Utilizing Local Host Cache for Nondisruptive Database Upgrades in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• “Changing from Windows Server 2016 to 2019 was 18% lower user density and 26% lower user experience” – ICT-R

Citrix HDX

• Download Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.8 for Microsoft Skype® for Business

Citrix Workspace app

• Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Citrix Workspace app for Windows prior to version 1904 and Receiver for Windows to LTSR 4.9 CU6 version earlier than 4.9.6001 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.6001 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 6 – fixes security vulnerability
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1904.1 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 36.27
• Push notification for Citrix Gateway 13.0 Native OTP – uses Cloud Service – Citrix Docs
• Configure the number of OTP devices a user can register with Citrix Gateway 13.0 – Citrix Docs
• What’s new in Citrix ADC 13.0 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 36.27
• What’s new in Citrix ADM 13.0 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Hypervisor

• Download Citrix XenServer 7.1 CU2 hotfix that includes the drivers required to support Windows Server 2019 VMs

Citrix Cloud

• PowerShell to register App-V packages with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Cloud service – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Security Analytics New Features May 09, 2019 – Privileged user monitoring, Custom Reports, Weekly email summary – Citrix Docs

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1904 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Citrix Networking Master Class – May 2019 – What’s new in Citrix ADC 13.0

Citrix ADM

• PowerShell Module for Citrix ADM – Kenny Baldwin

Microsoft

• Microsoft Teams Per-Machine is now available!
  • Detailed explanation by Dale Scriven

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

 

Change Log Excerpt

• 2019 May 3:
  • Citrix ADM – Instance Management – added link to Citrix Application Delivery Management PowerShell Moduleby Kenny Baldwin
  • Citrix StoreFront – Receiver for Web Authentication – added link to Citrix Blog Post Configuring domain pass-through as your default authentication method
  • Citrix Profile Management Profile Container – added link to CTX247569 Citrix Profile Management: Troubleshooting Profile Containers
• 2019 Apr 30:
  • Citrix VDA – Workspace app – updated for Workspace app 1904
• 2019 Apr 27:
  • Citrix Profile Management Registry Exclusions – added Office registry key from Nick Panaccio in the comments.

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR / XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR, Cumulative Update 4 – All Editions

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Hotfix ProfileMgmt_19_03_1000 for CItrix Profile Management 1903 – fix for mounting OutlookSearchIndex.vhdx file – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1904 for HTML5

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC VPX High Availability in AWS is not working due to AWS IAM changes – Citrix team is working with AWS team in releasing an updated AMI – Citrix Discussions

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.1 Build 50.43

Citrix Hypervisor

• Download Citrix Hypervisor 8.0

VMware

• New VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture Incorporates Cloud, On-Prem, and Multi-site Design – 447 pages – VMware Blog Post
• Upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5 – Brandon Lee
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM 1904: Deep Dive – YouTube

Microsoft

• A Practical Guide to FSLogix Containers Capacity Planning and Maintenance – CTP Aaron Parker

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

 

Change Log

Here’s an excerpt of the Change Log from last week:

• 2019 Apr 26:
  • Citrix Application Delivery Management– Upgrade ADM – Updated screenshots for ADM 12.1 build 50.43
• 2019 Apr 24:
  • Citrix VDA 1903– Profile Management 1903 Hotfix 1 – new section – Source = CTX250032
  • Citrix StoreFront– HTML5 Workspace app – updated with Workspace app for HTML5 1904
  • VMware Identity Manager– updated entire article for Identity Manager 19.03.0.0, including:
    • External Windows Connectors instead of embedded connector
    • New instructions for adding Virtual Apps Collection
• 2019 Apr 23:
  • Citrix Delivery Controller 7.15– Updated Install and Upgrade sections for version 7.15.4000 (Cumulative Update 4).
  • Citrix VDA 7.15– updated Install VDA and VDA Port section screenshots for 7.15.4000 (Cumulative Update 4)
• 2019 Apr 14:
  • Citrix App Layering– Updated Upgrade section, Import Appliance section, and PVS Agent section for Layering 1903
• 2019 Apr 13:
  • Citrix StoreFront Socket Pooling – added link to CTX227903 TCP Ports get exhausted on the StoreFront server (h/t Stan Demburg)

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Considerations for running Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Azure – Citrix Docs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) integration with Endpoint Management (CEM) – WEM Agent applies GPOs from CEM; MDM not needed – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 19.4.1 – WEM Integration – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Smart Check (Smart Tools) reaches End of Life on May 31, 2019 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Identity Manager 19.03
• What’s New in VMware Identity Manager 19.03 – VMware Blog Post

Other

• What’s New in NVIDIA vGPU Software R418 (v8.0) – Win10 1809 support, Win2019 support, more vGPU migration support

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Can’t add Citrix Studio Host Connection to vSphere if NSX-T is implemented – fixed in CVAD 1903; fixes for cloud and LTSR are coming – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix VDA

• Leee Jeffries PowerScale – Replacement for Citrix SmartScale – Github

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1903

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app 1903.1 for Mac is back
• Upcoming Citrix Workspace App 1904 for Windows requires .NET Framework Version 4.6.2 or later – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 61.8
• Citrix ADC Classic Policy Expressions won’t be removed until Q2 2020 instead of 2019 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix ADC Web App Firewall Signature update for March 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix NetScaler MAS Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 61.8

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix and Microsoft – 64 page step-by-step Preview Guide to CVAD Service with Windows Virtual Desktop WVD and Windows 10 multi-session

VMware

• Download VMware vSphere 6.7U2
• Download VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5
  • What’s New in vRealize Operations 7.5? A Technical Overview, Part 1 – VMware Blog Post

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Change Log

Here’s an excerpt of the Change Log from last week:

• 2019 Apr 8:
  • VMware Horizon– new DPI GPO setting to change DPI on session reconnect
• 2019 Apr 7:
  • Citrix Profile Management– Folders to Mirror – added info from CTX235698 Issues to synchronize bookmarks of Google Chrome using Citrix UPM on latest LTSR version (7.15 CU2)
  • Group Policy– Lockdown Desktop GPO Settings – added link to CTX250046 Folder Redirection is not working via Studio policies when using Citrix Profile Management
  • Group Policy– Office 2016/365/2019 Group Policy Templates – updated for build 4840
  • VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon– Patch/Upgrade vROps Appliance – updated for VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.0

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• New Citrix Tech Zone Document History and RSS Feed
• Scale Citrix Session Recording to 20K users – CTA Hal Lange and CTP Ryan Revord at CUGC

Citrix MCS

• Impact of new MCS RAM-based write cache capability in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) 1903 – Citrix Daniel Feller

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 1903
• Folder Redirection is not working via Studio policies when using Citrix Profile Management – don’t enable “Prohibit User from manually redirecting Profile Folders” Windows policy – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Mac was removed from downloads due to known issues – Citrix Discussions

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC 12.1 Build 51.19 – replaces build 51.16 – fixes for EDT with AppFlow, and Service Group monitor bindings
• Citrix Networking Master Class April 2019 recording – Intelligent Traffic Management and SD-WAN

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 50.39
• What’s new in Citrix ADM Cloud Service April 01, 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix SD-WAN

• Citrix SD-WAN Reference Architecture at Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix ITM

• Introduction to Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management at Citrix Tech Zone
• GSLB as a service available with Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Endpoint Management

• New Document History and RSS Feed for Citrix Endpoint Management at Citrix Docs

VMware

• Horizon View Design Considerations – René van den Bedem

Microsoft

• Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated 4/2/2019

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Here’s an excerpt of the Detailed Change Log from last week:

• 2019 Apr 4:
  • Citrix Workspace Environment Management – Updated Install sections for version 1903
  • Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent – Optimize Performance – added link to Citrix Blog Post Citrix Optimizer 2.1 – What’s new.
• 2019 Apr 2:
  • Citrix Session Recording – added Broker_PowerShellSnapIn_x64.msi to Recording Policies and upgrade
• 2019 Apr 1:
  • Citrix FAS Configuration – added PowerShell command to show expiration date of Authorization certificate (h/t CTP Carl Webster)
  • Citrix ADC – Upgrade Firmware – updated screenshots for 12.1 build 51.19
• 2019 Mar 31:
  • Upgrade Citrix ADM – Updated screenshots for ADM 12.1 build 50.39
  • Citrix Session Recording – updated Event Logging Policies for version 1903
  • Citrix Workspace app – Administrator vs non-administrator – added link to Citrix article CTX249920 Workspace App for Windows – Your apps are not available at this time – Issue when installing Citrix Receiver in not elevated/per-user install mode
  • Citrix Profile Management – new Profile Container section for version 1903
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – updated all articles for version 1903

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• What’s new in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1903 – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1903, All Editions

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix Session Recording 1903 enhancements – log web browsing activities – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• New Profile container feature in Citrix Profile Management 1903 – Map specified folders to the profile disk that is stored on the network – Citrix Docs

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix StoreFront 1903

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 1903

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Windows
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Mac
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Linux
• How to clean up per-user install of Workspace app after per-machine installation – lots of registry keys – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Network Visualizer in 12.1 51.16 – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• Workspace ONE UEM (AirWatch) 1903: Technical Deep Dive – YouTube
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM (AirWatch) 1903 Release Notes – VMware Docs
• Identity Manager Migration/Backup Tool – VMware Fling

Microsoft

• Getting started with Windows Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Blog

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix VDA versions and Login VSI VSImax value – All Citrix Current Release VDA versions show an improvement in scalability compared to the LTSR versions, but from 1808.2 onward the improvement is massive (30%) – Eltjo van Gulik
• Citrix Optimizer 2.1 has been released – tons of small updates/changes/fixes mostly for UI, much better HTML reports – Citrix KB article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.6000 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 6

Citrix ADC

• ADC 12.1.51.16 removes monitor binding in servicegroups during reboot/failover in an HA pair. restore missing bind points from last known saved config (notepad++ is your friend with bookmark search), wait for .17+ build in downloads and then upgrade! – CTP Thorsten Rood on Twitter
• Citrix AppFW Signature version 27.0 for the vulnerabilities identified in February 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM stylebook with different roles and different configurations on different ADC instances – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Secure Mail 19.3.0 – support for recent Exchange cumulative updates; organize feeds; action buttons moved to bottom of screen – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• FSLogix profile container is free for all RDS CALs and VDA licenses – Microsoft Docs
• New OneDrive per-machine installation option – you can install OneDrive under the “Program Files (x86)” directory, meaning all profiles on the computer will use the same OneDrive.exe binary – Microsoft Docs

Other

• Ad blockers in VDI – VSImax shows a huge 47% improvement when using DNS based ad blocking. Browser based ad blocking is only an 8% improvement – Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1902 for Windows

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Agent 12.1 Build 50.33 – Agent only
  • Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) Agent Security Update – Citrix KB article

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 19.3.0 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Smart Scale End of Life extended to May 31, 2019 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.8.0
  • VMware Horizon 7.8 What’s New Technical Overview – YouTube
  • VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.5 Deep Dive – Azure deployment – YouTube
• Download VMware Tools 10.3.10 – pvscsi and vmxnet3 driver updates are now available through Microsoft’s Windows Update service for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019

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For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.