Author: Carl Stalhood

Interesting EUC items from last week:

NetScaler ADC

• Download NetScaler 14.1 Build 43.50
• NetScaler SDX: add disk space to a VPX – NetScaler Docs

NetScaler Console (formerly ADM)

• Download NetScaler Console 14.1 Build 43.50 – 2FA for management logon; upgrade agents from GUI

Citrix Gateway

• NetScaler Citrix Gateway has a new theme – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Device Posture event-driven posture checks – external USB storage device is inserted or removed; switch between an open network and a protected network; Windows Defender Firewall is enabled or disabled – Citrix Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2402 LTSR, Cumulative Update 2

Citrix StoreFront

• It is not possible to upgrade Citrix StoreFront from 2402 CU2 to 2407 or 2411 – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler 13.1 Build 57.26 – binary signing and verification to enhance security; General Availability (GA) of NetScaler Next-Gen API

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access (VPN Client) for Windows version 25.1.1.11

Microsoft

• Microsoft FSLogix 25.02 (3.25.202.4223) – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Download Omnissa Horizon 2412 – new license keys; Omnissa branding
• The Omnissa Windows OS Optimization Tool for Horizon executable is not currently compatible with Windows 11 24H2 and later, and Server 2025 – Omnissa Tech Zone
• Download Windows OS Optimization Tool for Omnissa Horizon 2412

Microsoft

• Nerdio v6.7.0 Release Notes – AI generated scripts; End users can create their own VMs from the end user portal; Auto-Scaling for Azure NetApp Files; Patch Orchestration

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix WEM Cloud What’s New January 2025 – Run WEM Tool Hub Windows Logon Analysis as non-administrator; optimizations for Windows 11 2009 and Windows Server 2025 2009 machines – Citrix Docs
• Troubleshoot Login Time Issues Using Citrix WEM Tool Hub – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2409.10 for Windows

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Horizon Cloud January 16 Release Notes – Amazon Workspaces Core; Access Conditional Access policies on individual apps and desktops and App Volumes; License consumption metrics for Horizon 8 concurrent user licenses – Omnissa Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Vulnerability – NVIDIA Security Bulletin
• NVIDIA License System 3.4.1 Release Notes – Added validity of 3 years to the license file downloaded for the DLS license server; security updates

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2203 LTSR, Cumulative Update 6

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler SSL/TLS Best Practices (Q1 2025 Edition) – Citrix Tech Zone
• What’s new with NetScaler – signed binaries for detection of unauthorized files; Encrypted WAF signatures delivered by NetScaler Console; HTTP/3; SDX extra management CPU – YouTube video

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Horizon Client for macOS 2412 addresses local privilege escalation vulnerabilities – Omnissa security advisory
• Download Omnissa Horizon Client 2412 (8.14.0) – The Horizon Client user interface, configuration strings, and file paths have been updated to reflect the new Omnissa brand
• Download Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager 2412 – visual updates across all DEM suite components; Configuration versioning and restore

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

NetScaler ADC

• Citrix Demo: NetScaler VPX HA failover on Azure without an Azure Load Balancer – secondary private IP addresses of the primary node are migrated to the secondary node; faster on new Azure control plane – YouTube video

NetScaler Console (formerly ADM)

• NetScaler Console on-prem has the new GUI – NetScaler Docs
• Download Citrix NetScaler Console (ADM) 14.1 Build 38.53
• Download Citrix NetScaler ADC Release (Feature Phase) 14.1 Build 38.53

Citrix Gateway

• Detecting and Mitigating Password Spraying Attacks on NetScaler Gateway – Citrix Tech Zone
• Download Citrix Secure Access for Windows 24.11.1.17

Citrix Cloud

• Demo of upcoming Citrix Cloud navigation changes – YouTube video

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Omnissa Access On Premises 24.12 Release Notes – new option: Enable Horizon Client with Omnissa URL – Omnissa Docs
• Omnissa App Volumes 2412 Release Notes – new visual elements and icons – Omnissa Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• While upgrading from previous Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops versions to version 2411 or deploying a new site on version 2411, the site creation fails when using a SQL Server 2016 database – Citrix Docs

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2411 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app for Windows LTSR 2402 Cumulative Update 2
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2411 for Mac
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2409.1 for Windows – fix for printer mapping

Citrix Cloud

• Eight new features in Citrix Monitor – view the resource location for machines; Session Topology includes new endpoint metrics; Cloud Connector health monitoring – Citrix Docs
• Citrix DaaS new features – Support for creating Citrix Provisioning catalogs in VMware environments using Studio; Delivery of app attach disks as CimFS – Citrix Docs
• Citrix DaaS 12/2024 – storage load balancing with least load method – If you select two or more OS data storage locations during catalog creation, disks can be allocated to the least loaded storage repository – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Teams VDI SlimCore optimization in Citrix is Generally available – Microsoft has started the General Availability rollout for Citrix customers starting December 09, 2024 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2411 – Starting with 2411, MMC-based Studio is deprecated; independent release of Director for LTSR deployments provides access to the latest Director features; Bulk alert dismissal
• Citrix License Activation Service (LAS) is alternative to traditional Citrix legacy licensing – no longer license files to generate; licenses activated automatically – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix License Server for Windows – Version 11.17.2.0 Build 51000

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2409 for Windows

Citrix XenServer

• XenCenter 2024.4.0 – Connect XenCenter to the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment to see information about Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops machines and sessions hosted in your XenServer pool – XenServer Docs
• Download XenServer Conversion Manager 8.4.0 – now automatically uninstalls VMware Tools from your VMs and provides the option to install XenServer VM Tools

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS: Image management is now Generally Available – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Microsoft Teams VDI: SlimCore features vs WebRTC – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• New entitlement for current Citrix customers to integrate Citrix with an unlimited number of Windows 365 Cloud PCs at no additional cost – Citrix Blog post

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• uberAgent for VDI – new entitlement added to all Universal Hybrid Multi-Cloud, legacy Universal, and legacy DaaS subscriptions, with entitlements to deploy across Citrix VDI and DaaS workloads as well as Citrix connected endpoints – Citrix Blog Post

NetScaler ADC

• Deploy a NetScaler VPX HA pair in Azure using secondary IP configurations – eliminates the need for the Azure Load Balancer (ALB); secondary private IP addresses are migrated to the secondary node – NetScaler Docs

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Windows Server 2025 is not yet supported with Horizon Connection Server – Omnissa Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• Microsoft AVD Dynamic autoscaling – creates and deletes session hosts to adjust to the available capacity in a host pool; requires pooled host pools with session host configuration – Microsoft Docs
• Windows 365 Frontline in shared mode – When a user signs out from the Cloud PC, all user data is deleted and the Cloud PC is released for another user to start using – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA Delegated Licensing Service vulnerability: partial denial of service and confidential information disclosure – High severity; fixed in version 3.4 – NVIDIA Answers
• NVIDIA GPU Manager for VMware vCenter 1.6 – security updates – NVIDIA Docs

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