EUC Weekly Digest – Page 37

AppSense v10
Comparing the performance impact of application layering technologies – Unidesk, AppDisk, App Volumes – ControlUp Blog
Recorded Unidesk webinar – demo of Publish to PvS, and Elastic Layers for XenApp – CUGC
Nvidia Tesla M10 – new mid-range GPU coming in August
HopTo recorded webinar – make Citrix HDX on iOS more touch friendly

EUC Weekly Digest – May 14, 2016

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XenApp/XenDesktop

Citrix explains how upgrades are easier and more reliable – includes supported migration paths and upgrade methods – Citrix Blog Post
Download VDA Cleanup Utility – updated May 5 – Citrix KB article
Download Citrix LTSR Assistant – tool to verify LTSR compliance – Citrix KB article
PvD Inventory Fails After Upgrading XenDesktop 7.6.300/7.7 VDA to 7.8 – known issue – Citrix KB article
April 2016 XML core services patch breaks Director? – Citrix Discussions
Director upgrade not showing User Connection Failures on the dashboard – delete one row from database – Citrix Discussions
How to integrate PVS, XenDesktop, Citrix Connector 3.1 and SCCM 1602 to Deploy App-V packages – step-by-step guide – Citrix Blog Post
Citrix is starting to move some Blogs content to Docs. Docs.citrix.com seems to be improving.

Receiver

About Citrix Receiver for Android 3.9 – new X1 theme support – Citrix Docs
How to use Citrix Receiver Diagnostic tool to troubleshoot Single Sign-on – YouTube video

NetScaler

Troubleshooting NetScaler – 270 page book from Raghu Varma Tirumalaraju, a Citrix Escalation engineer – Advanced troubleshooting topics: nsconmsg, WireShark, etc.
NetScaler Management and Analytics System Tech Preview – combines Insight Center with Command Center.
- Multi-tenancy. Record CLI commands and play on other instances. Corrective configuration advice.
- Marius Sandbu’s overview of the product
- Download the virtual appliance – 8 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB disk
- NMAS documentation at docs.citrix.com
NetScaler CLI commands support regex expressions – e.g. disable service /^.*/ – Citrix KB article
Default SSL Profile causes core dump on VPX HA pair? – CUGC forums
No RADIUS Challenge Response in Citrix VPN Client for iOS? – Citrix Discussions
OWA 2013 issues through NetScaler 11.0 Clientless VPN – known issue fixed in upcoming NetScaler 11.0 build – workaround from Citrix KB

XenMobile

Download XenMobile Server 10.3.5 Patch 10.3.5.5002 – VPP fix
Citrix joins AppConfig Community – use MDM to perform mobile application configuration
WorxChat Installation Steps – WorxChat Server, SQL Server, APNS for WorxChat – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

View Agent fails to restart on Windows Server 2012 R2 RDSH Application Server when assigning an AppStack – edit snapvol.cfg to exclude MachineKeys – VMware KB article
Obtain Last Unique Login for All Users from Horizon View Event Database – SQL query – VMware KB article
Location Based Printing is not set as default printer in Windows 10 desktop – turn off Let Windows manage my default printer – VMware KB article
ESXi 6.0 May 2016 Patch – VMXNET3 PSOD fix – Virten.net

Other

Unidesk 4.0 is now available – layers stored in file share instead of VMFS. Export fully composed image to Citrix Provisioning Services on vSphere. Also Azure. 2012 R2 RDSH only.

EUC Weekly Digest – May 7, 2016

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Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week.

Citrix

New Advanced Concepts section at docs.citrix.com.
XenMobile:
- Download MDX Tookit 10.3.5
- Download Worx Apps 10.3.5
- Overview of MAM-centric features in XenMobile 10.3.5 – Citrix Blog Post
- XenMobile 10.3 Certificate Based Authentication for MAM-Only Mode – Citrix Blog Post
- How to configure Touch ID authentication with XenMobile Server for iOS devices – Encrypt secrets using Passcode must be disabled. Citrix KB article
- To wrap MDX apps for Android 6, install Android 6 API 23 – Citrix Discussions. Also edit Android_Settings.txt – Citrix KB article.
- ShareFile Drive Mapper works on XenApp 7.8
NetScaler:
- Download NetScaler VPX for ESX 11.0 Build 65.72 – new VPX models (25 Mb, 5Gb, 8 Gb, 10 Gb, 15 Gb, 25 Gb), VMXNET3 support, SR-IOV support
- NetScaler for Azure updated to 11.0 build 65.31. Future upgrades are possible. More details at Citrix Discussions.
- Citrix NetScaler Master Class – May 2016 – Synergy discount code. Content Switching 101. DataStream (Database Load Balancing). New VPX appliance models. YouTube video
- Overview of GSLB powered zone preference – computer voice? 2 minute YouTube video
- NetScaler Security Insight getting started guide – for App Firewall. Built into Insight Center appliance. Marius Sandbu blog post.
- How to configure NetScaler IP Reputation service (WebRoot) – part of App Firewall. docs.citrix.com
- How to Set up a maintenance page on Netscaler Gateway using Responder Policy. Daniel Ruiz blog post
XenApp/XenDesktop:
- Known performance issue when implementing XenApp 7.6 with more than 4000 concurrent users – Citrix KB article
- Download Citrix Connector 3.1 for System Center Configuration Manager – SCCM 2016 support, XenDesktop 7.8 support
- How to configure RDS, XenApp, StoreFront, and Receiver to allow multiple sessions to the same machine – Citrix Blog Post
- Enabling SSL on VDA prevents Receiver for iOS from connecting – Citrix Discussions
- Exporting and importing VMware dvPortGroups breaks MCS – Citrix Discussions
- ComTrade SCOM Pack for XenDesktop oData troubleshooting guide – Citrix Discussions
- Download Secure Gateway 3.3.4 – TLS 1.2 support
- XenApp 6.5 R06 Hotfix 21 – adds TLS 1.2 for SSL Relay
Profile Management:
- Configure Profile Management to save Google Chrome settings – Citrix Discussions
Provisioning Services:
- PvS 7.8 supports Hyper-V Gen 2 for RDSH only. No VDI. Video driver issue – Citrix Discussions
CloudBridge:
- Download CloudBridge Virtual WAN 9.0 – merges Virtual WAN and WAN Optimization into a new Enterprise Edition.
- Download CloudBridge Virtual WAN Center 9.0 – monitoring, visibility, orchestration. More details at Citrix Blog Post.

VMware

Two+ monitors crashes Horizon Client 4.0+ connecting to desktop on ESX 6.0 Update 2 – uncheck Enable display scaling – VMware KB article
Horizon FLEX 1.8 Deployment Considerations – Word document. VMware communities.
Download vSphere Management Assistant 6.0.0.1

Other

April 2016 hotfix rollup for the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack – App-V and UEV hotfixes
Can’t disable Windows Store in Windows 10 Pro through Group Policy – Can still be disabled in Enterprise. Microsoft KB article
NVIDIA GRID B-Profiles for business – Rachel Berry blog post. Links to NVIDIA documentation.
Control-Up Citrix PvS 7.8 Farm Check Script Based Action
Windows 10 – How to turn off Live Tiles – Technet

EUC Weekly Digest – April 30, 2016

Last Modified: Sep 2, 2018 @ 7:53 am

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Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week.

Citrix

StoreFront:
- Code at Discussions to add featured app groups to categories view and increase # of featured apps
Receiver:
- Download Receiver for Windows 4.4.1000 – new checkbox to suppress Add Account wizard – Citrix KB
- Receiver for HTML5 2.0 re-released to fix some taskbar issues.
- Receiver JSON error when X1 theme is enabled – uncheck “Enable Client Side Measurements” in the AppFlow actions. Citrix Discussions.
NetScaler:
- How to insert Client IP into TCP protocol – Usually only possible for HTTP. Now TCP too. Citrix KB
- NetScaler Clustering Simplified Into 3 Easy Steps – Citrix KB
- Demo NetScaler Datastream with SQL AlwaysOn – monitor to verify SQL replica availability. Content Switching read vs write. Integrated caching. Demo application. Jake Rutski blog post
- Geo Maps don’t work in Insight Center 11.0 build 65 – Citrix Discussions
- Configure NetScaler for DirectAccess load balancing – YouTube video
XenMobile:
- Download ShareFile StorageZones Controller 4.0 – new rights management functionality
  - ShareFile StorageZones Controller 4.0 supports TLS 1.2 – no Mac clients. Windows clients need registry key.
- ShareFile Protected Document Viewers – to view Rights Protected files
- XenMobile Server 10.3 Rolling Patch 2
- Citrix Mobility Master Class: 10.3.5 new features, MAM First, Auto Wipe, Reverse Split Tunnel, Apple DEP (including supervisor mode), VPP (including WorxHome). YouTube video.
- Configure NetScaler as SAML iDP for ShareFile. Internal users do Integrated Windows Auth (Kerberos). If fails, prompt for NTLM instead. LDAP for attribute extraction. Citrix KB.
- How to export WiFi settings from Windows 10 and use XenMobile to push to Windows 10 machines. – Citrix Blog Post
- WorxMail 10.3.5 will support 451 redirection to move mailboxes from on-prem to cloud – Citrix KB
- Node.js code to upload an .mdx file to XenMobile – Citrix Discussions
Upload Access database and connect using HTML5 Receiver – new Citrix Workspace Cloud service. Citrix Blog Post.
Citrix TV is retiring – use YouTube instead
Tools to transfer commands, files, links, and mail to client device – uses Virtual Channel. MQ Technologies.

VMware

Download VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2.1
Known limitations of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v4 series with ESXi – VMware KB
Mirage and MongoDB – Overview, High Availability. VMware blog post
“Your user account is disabled” error in VMware Horizon – known issue in 6.2.0/.1 – Terence Luk

Other

Windows Subsystem for Linux: Architectural Overview – 20 minute video, unmodified Bash doing Linux system calls on Windows
Download Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
- What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
- What’s new with System Center 2016 – Shielded VMs, Storage Spaces Direct, SCOM MP Recommendations, tune SCOM MPs to reduce alerts. 15 minute video
MAM and Conditional Access for Skype for Business – no enrollment needed

EUC Weekly Digest – April 23, 2016

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Here are some EUC items that interested me last week.

Citrix

Citrix License Server 11.13.1 has historical usage reporting
NetScaler:
- Download NetScaler Release 10.5 Build 62.9
- NetScaler 11.0 build 65.31 is re-released as 65.35
- Harden SSHD ciphers/MAC to prevent inaccurate vulnerability scans. Citrix KB
- Suppress Command Center Alarm Related Actions For a Particular Time Period – schedule disable/enable filters. Citrix KB
- Monitor and Manage Changes on NetScaler Using Command Center – Audit Policy. Citrix KB
- Setup Netscaler as ADFS Proxy – XenAppBlog
- Content Switch XenMobile and NetScaler Gateway – Dave Bretty blog post
XenMobile:
- How to configure Citrix VPN for iOS Per App VPN – XenMobile VPN policy, XenMobile App Attribute, NetScaler Session Policy
StoreFront:
- Auto launch desktop setting in StoreFront 3.5 is not accurate? – Citrix KB
Receiver:
- Receiver 4.3.100 doesn’t create stubs anymore. Registry key to re-enable. Citrix KB
- New Toolbar in HTML5 and Chrome Receiver – at top of screen. Citrix Blog Post
- Experience of HTML5 Receiver on mobile browser – gestures, multi-touch, soft keyboard, Continuum. Citrix Blog Post
- Experience of HTML5 Receiver new App Switcher
Company:
- How to renew Citrix certifications – Citrix Blog Post
- Introducing the new Citrix – interview with CEO Kirill Tatarinov
- Citrix Revenue up 9% YoY – seems like good numbers
VDA:
- How to make logon disclaimer window bigger – David Ball blog post

VMware

What’s New in VMware Identity Manager 2.6: Technical Deep Dive – 46 minute YouTube video from VMware
Use VMware UEM to launch and configure BGInfo – VMware Communities
Can’t search vSphere inventory when logged on using session credentials – VMware KB
App Volumes – Office 365 32-bit has problems on 64-bit Windows – edit snapvol.cfg – VMware KB
Download VMware Tools 10.0.8 – resolves NSX issue
Download VMware Workstation 12.1.1 Pro for Windows
Download VMware Fusion 8.1.1 for Mac OS X
It Architect: Foundation in the Art of Infrastructure Design: A Practical Guide for It Architects – book written by VCDXs. vSphere and Horizon. I have not read it yet.

Other

Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition is now free
Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials – free subscription to Azure, free Azure training, free Pluralsight, free exam. More at Microsoft Blog.
NVIDIA M60 / M6 cards are shipped to OEMs in “compute” mode. Don’t forget to change to “graphics” mode. – Rachel Berry blog post
RDS redirected resources showing degraded performance Windows Server 2012 R2 – get hotfix form Windows Update
Lots of Windows 10 UI changes in Insider build

EUC Weekly Digest – April 9, 2016

Last Modified: Sep 2, 2018 @ 7:53 am

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Here are some EUC items that interested me last week.

Citrix

Citrix Blog Post on how to prevent MCS from doing a rearm.
Download XenMobile Server 10.3.5 – more MAM-centric (e.g. cert deployment), restrict # of enrolled devices (enrollment profiles).
- Configure > Actions > App wipe or App lock.
- MAM features require Worx Home 10.3.5.
- NTP Server can now be configured.
XenMobile Worx Home APNS cert expires 4/13. Upgrade to 10.3.5. Or install patch. Only for Worx Home notifications.
ShareFile On-Demand Sync 2.15.108.1 – Windows 10 support
New Product-specific support pages at Citrix. Example – http://support.citrix.com/en/products/xendesktop. The PM wants feedback.
Contribute Exam Questions to Citrix from the comfort of your home.
Citrix SmartHub – user-facing tool that runs in virtual desktops. Alerts, App Requests. System Info.
VDA Cleanup Utility – cleans up files/registry left by VDA uninstaller.
AppDisks Diagnostic Tool – collects AppDisks log files, seems to be newer than the one in the 7.8 VDA.
Sacha Thomet’s script to notify when # of free desktops is low – uses Director
Reverse Image Windows 10 PvS vDisk using XenConvert – I get winload.exe error when booting. Any ideas?
NetScaler:
- EPA OPSWAT Packet flow and Troubleshooting – registry key to enable client-side logging. NetScaler Assassin blog.
- NetScaler SDX update bundle does not update LOM firmware. Do that separately.
- Demo NetScaler App Firewall – basically a getting started guide. Jake Rutski.
- NetScaler 11 has a built-in Geo Location Database
- Citrix NetScaler Master Class April 2016 – intro to GSLB, multi-subnet configuration, intro to HA, virtual MAC. YouTube video.
Citrix Discussions:
- Citrix Telemetry Service prevents VDA 7.8 installation
- Outlook 2013/2016 on Win12R2 doesn’t display notifications
- Clipboard issues in VDA 7.8
- Receiver 4.4 hang issue – works in 4.3.100
- NetScaler EPA reg scan bug – fixed in 11.0 build 66
- StoreFront 3.5 Delegated Authentication bug – confirmed by Citrix
- PVS 7.8 -> BOOTMGR image is corrupted. The system cannot boot – XenServer only?
- On Receiver for iOS, drop-down menus lose background

VMware

Earl Gay from Sirius Computer Solutions awarded VMware EUC Champion
Download Horizon Clients 4.0.1 – re-enables TLS 1.0
VMware Horizon 7 True SSO: Setting Up In a Lab – VMware Blog Post
VMware Horizon Sizing Estimator 1.1
VDI Calculator v7 – Andre Leibovici
App Volumes:
- How to do AppToggle in App Volumes 3.0. VMware Communities.
- VMware App Volumes Backup Utility Fling – needed in AppVolumes 3? It adds .vmdks to a VM, which can then be backed up.
- Using the VMware App Volumes snapvol.cfg File to Customize Writable Volumes – what’s saved and not saved. VMware Blog Post.
- Learning VMware App Volumes – book from Peter von Oven.
VMware Performance and Capacity Management – Second Edition – book from Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok

Other

Improving Windows 10 logon time – Remove Modern Apps, use default user profile. James Rankin.
LoginVSI OS Tuning Template for Windows 10 – increase density 44%
Unidesk 4.0 Tech Preview – I like storing layers in file share. And pushes to PvS.
HopTo is making Citrix more touch-friendly on iOS.
GPOs not applying on Windows 10 – could be UNC Hardening. Technet forums.
UEM Smackdown v16.01 – Rob Beekmans.

EUC Weekly Digest – April 16, 2016

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Citrix

Download Receiver for HTML5 2.0 – client-side app switching, new toolbar, mobile support
- Receiver for Chrome OS new features – seamless apps, multi-monitor, connection center. Citrix Blog Post.
Updated StoreFront code to default the Apps tab to the Categories view. Citrix Discussions.
StoreFront code to default iOS and Android to HTML5 Receiver. Citrix Discussions.
XenMobile:
- XenMobile 10.3 How To: Configure Google Cloud Messaging Service – Google API. Citrix Blog Post.
- Worx Home 10.3 user interface – Includes certificate pinning using Auto Discovery Services. Citrix Docs.
- Make ShareFile logon page look like Receiver X1 – Download theme files, edit, upload. Jason Samuel Blog Post.
- ShareFile Enterprise vs Platinum – There are SKUs to add ShareFile Platinum to XenMobile Enterprise. Citrix Product Page.
Start Menu Icons Set to Blank Document After Update to Receiver 4.3.100 – Windows 8+, set GPO to allow UNC shortcut icons. Citrix KB.
Errors when starting published Microsoft Office applications – create iNetCache folder. Tenera Blog.
Citrix Director Custom Reports – Director plug-in. Citrix Blog
Marius Sandbu’s NetScaler Gateway eBook
The new 40Gig NetScaler models don’t support the newest firmware – Citrix KB
Citrix Discussions:
- Receiver for Chrome 2.0 taskbar issues
- StoreFront 3.5 – if delete store and re-add, Auth doesn’t work?
- IE11 bug causes web sessions to logout – invalidates cookie persistence
Videos:

VMware

True SSO requires Identity Manager. Identity Manager is essentially VMware’s version of ADFS. You can add any iDP to Identity Manager and it will use True SSO (SAML + dynamic smart cert certificates) to login to Horizon.
VMware Boxer Is Here (AirWatch) – video, reminds me of WorxMail
VSphere Design Pocketbook 3.0 – Pernixdata
Load Balancing VMware Identity Manager with F5 BIG-IP – F5 PDF document. VMware Blog Post.
Download VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3d
View Persona is not going anywhere – developer confirmed development is still happening

Other

NVIDIA GRID Licensing Changes – no more Virtual Workstation Extended, new XenApp licensing. Sean Massey blog post.
Disable Windows 10 1st logon animation – GPO setting. Lars Lohmann blog post.
Click-by-click – Creating load balanced VMs using Azure Resource Manager in the Azure portal – 1 hr video. MSDN Channel 9.
What Is AppLocker? – comparison with Software Restriction Policies. TechNet.
Chrome/Firefox can log SSL keys to a file. Use in WireShark. SANS ISC blog post.
PowerShell script to display session idle time across multiple servers. Technet gallery.
Dell vWorkspace discontinued. Brian Madden blog post.
Architecting EUC Solutions – Kindle book from Brian Suhr (Nutanix). Good overview of the EUC design process.