Author: Carl Stalhood

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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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) 2407 supports Windows Server 2025 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2405.12 for Windows
• Download Citrix Workspace app for Windows LTSR 2402 Cumulative Update 1 Hotfix 3
• Citrix article on Microsoft Teams optimization using SlimCore updated with Information about Plugin updates – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access client 24.10.1.5

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS What’s New – Support for Windows Server 2025; provision persistent Windows Server OS VMs using Full Copy Clone – Citrix Docs

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Omnissa App Volumes Manager Integration with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – An App Volumes application maps to an App attach package which is an Azure resource in Azure Virtual Desktop – Omnissa Docs

Microsoft

• Microsoft 365 Apps is supported on Windows Server 2025 while it’s in Mainstream Support. Mainstream Support for Windows Server 2025 ends in October 2029 – Microsoft Docs
• Deliver applications from partner solutions to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop with app attach – Liquidware; Numecent; Omnissa – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix

• Citrix Secure Private Access hybrid deployment – on-premises StoreFront and NetScaler Gateway components but Citrix Cloud for managing the configuration – Citrix Docs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix WEM Cloud UI improvements – secondary navigation menu for Monitoring and Enrollment; Navigation breadcrumbs; drop-down menu on the top right for Legacy console, Utilities, or Web console – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• Download NetScaler Release (Feature Phase) 14.1 Build 34.42 – new policy tracing: lists the applied policies and actions taken; Zero Touch Certificate Management from NetScaler Console; HTTP/3 on back-end; XenServer 8 on SDX
• NetScaler Policy tracing using the CLI – NetScaler Docs
• XenServer 8 upgrade is included in NetScaler SDX version 14.1-34.x onwards – all VPXs must be 13.1 or newer; SDX must be 13.0 or higher – NetScaler Docs
• NetScaler Monthly Webinar for October is now available on demand
• Upgrading NetScaler LOM version to 3.11.0 – addresses multiple functional issues – 2 reboots required; run the upgrade_bmc.sh script on Build 14.1- 34.42; reconfigure upgraded LOM – NetScaler Docs

NetScaler Console (formerly ADM)

• Download NetScaler Console (formerly ADM) 14.1 Build 34.43
• Demo of Zero Touch certificate management feature on the NetScaler Console is available as on demand webinar
• NetScaler Console Security Advisory File integrity monitoring is now available on-premises – NetScaler Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2409 – Direct upgrades from previous releases to version 2409 are not supported; deploy new appliance and migrate
• M365 activation fails when Citrix App Layering elastic\user layers are enabled – resolved in ELM 2409; or edit registry in Platform Layer – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2409.10 for Mac

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS new feature Oct 2024: Service accounts for machine identity management – manage computer accounts in on-premises Active Directory without having to enter domain credentials every time – Citrix Docs

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Download Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows 2406.1 – updates to fix critical security vulnerabilities

Microsoft

• New Microsoft AVD Preview Feature: Session host update – update VM disk type, OS image, etc. of all session hosts in a host pool with a session host configuration – Microsoft Docs
• Many new features in Nerdio for Microsoft AVD v6.5.0 – e.g., Nerdio Manager across multiple regions; predictive AI generates recommendations for auto-scale enabled host pools
• Microsoft 365 Unified Domains – *.cloud.microsoft; *.static.microsoft; *.usercontent.microsoft; all on TCP/UDP 443 and TCP 80 – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU software vulnerability: High severity – Code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure – NVIDIA Security Bulletin October 2024

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix VDA 2411 Virtual Channel Plugin Manager – detects specific applications running on the VDA and prompts the user to install the plugin on the endpoint; supports Microsoft Teams SlimCore plugin – Citrix Docs

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 2402 LTSR, Cumulative update 1

Citrix StoreFront

• After upgrading Citrix Storefront from 2402 to 2402 CU1, German language users may experience a spinning wheel during store access – clear browser cache; or rename ctxs.strings.de_EB6A1EA6E3F8036B.js – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2409 for HTML5

Citrix Cloud

• New permissions needed by the Azure Service Principal that Citrix DaaS uses – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Quick Fixes for Teams 2.0 VDI Pain Points – AppX registration; Teams icon missing; Start Menu search doesn’t work; Outlook Plugin not visible – Balint Oberrauch
• New Windows 365 IP subnet for RDP connectivity – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA® License System release 3.4.0 – fixes vulnerabilities – NVIDIA Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix Workspace Environment Management cloud service What’s New October 2024 – Group policy preferences migration to WEM; Profile Management 2411 settings – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app for Windows LTSR 2402 Cumulative Update 1 Hotfix 1 – 24.02.1001
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2405.11 for Windows
• Citrix Workspace app for Mac Security Bulletin: Possible  session hijack of a  user who is authenticated on cloud store – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix Workspace app: the Enable MPR notifications for the System GPO setting must be enabled to support domain pass-through (single sign-on) authentication on Windows 11 24H2 – disabled by default in 24H2 – Citrix Docs
• What’s new in Citrix Workspace app for Linux 2408 – Download – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix software requirements for Endpoint metrics in DaaS Monitor – Wi-Fi Signal Strength – Citrix Docs

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Workspace ONE Access 24.07 patches to fix upgrade issues – Omnissa Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• AVD Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – fixed in updated AVD Clients – Microsoft Docs
• Azure Virtual Desktop Black Screens.  Could be 2 Min long, could be much longer – long thread. Caused by Windows Patch – Microsoft Techcommunity
• Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2024 Update (24H2)

Other

• VMware Tools 12.5.0 What’s New – VMware Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• With Windows 11 version 24H2, Citrix session launches might fail when the anti-keylogging feature of App Protection is enabled – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• New Connection Strength Indicator on desktop viewer toolbar in Citrix Workspace app version 2409 or later – Citrix Blog Post

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler Integration for Cisco Duo Universal Prompt using Oauth – recorded webinar – Citrix Community
• NetScaler-Americas Sep 26 Recorded Webinar – rename GSLB Sites; change GSLB Site IP – Citrix Community
• NetScaler WAF recommendation engine recorded webinar – Citrix Community

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Omnissa Connect: combines Workspace ONE Cloud Admin Hub and Omnissa Cloud Services into a single, unified platform – Omnissa TechZone
• Horizon Agents Installer (HAI) 2406 has been marked as a critical update for all Horizon Cloud customers – for transition to the Omnissa brand – Omnissa Docs
• Horizon Cloud October 03, 2024 – view reason for failed end-user connection; publish installed applications from multi-session; notification for desktop pool’s size not meeting demand; UAG Syslog; improved provisioning time – Omnissa Docs

Microsoft

• FSLogix Teams: TempState folder isn’t properly cleaned up during sign out – Teams icon is missing from the Start Menu; workaround: redirections.xml to exclude the TempState folder – Microsoft Docs

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