Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix supports SQL 2019 in CVAD 2003 (and PVS 2003) and newer. No support in CVAD 1912 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer v2.7.0.125 – Added support for Windows 10 build 1909

Citrix MCS

• AWS instance property capturing – tags and roles – requires more IAM permissions – Citrix Docs

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Director in Citrix Cloud can show PVS Target Device metrics – Citrix Docs

Citrix StoreFront

• CVAD 2003 includes StoreFront 1912. No StoreFront update.

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app Commandline Tool updated Mar 30 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix Receiver Clean-Up Utility updated March 31 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.1 Build 56.22

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 5.4.2
• VMware OS Optimization Tool updated April 2 – Support for Windows 10 version 2004; new optimizations for Windows features and applications; UI changes
• VMware Blast Extreme Optimization Guide – updated 3-26 with Blast Codec information – VMware Tech Zone
• vSphere 7 is listed on the VMware Horizon 7.12 download page so I’m guessing Horizon 7.12 is supported on vSphere 7.
• Download vSphere 7
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM Powered by AirWatch 2004 Release Notes – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Office 365 ProPlus is being renamed to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise – Microsoft Blog

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix CVAD 2003 OS/SQL compatibility: Windows Server 2012 R2 is no longer supported for Controllers or VDAs; SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 are no longer supported for Site database or LHC; cloud VDAs are not supported – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2003, All Editions

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2003
• Citrix App Layering 2003: use the OS import script (ImportOsLayer.ps1) to import UEFI machines from vSphere – Citrix Docs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2003
• Enable multi-session write-back for FSLogix Profile Container – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app support for Windows 7 is deprecated (but still available) as of version 2002 – Citrix Docs
• Embedded browser is not included in Citrix Workspace app 1912 LTSR for Windows – Browser Content Redirection feature will not work; Teams redirection does work – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2002 for Windows
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1912 LTSR for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 52.24 – Citrix Gateway Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR
• Download Citrix NetScaler 11.1 Build 64.11

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 52.24

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client 5.4.1
• VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.9.1 – AirWatch fixes
• Deploying VMware Workspace ONE Tunnel: VMware Workspace ONE Operational Tutorial – VMware Tech Zone
• Quick-Start Tutorial for VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure – VMware Tech Zone
• Horizon View Events Database Export Utility Fling v2.2

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Logon process to VDAs is extremely slow when Citrix UPM is enabled – Sophos registry key – Citrix Knowledgebase article

VMware

• Horizon Client 5.4 addresses privilege escalation and denial-of- service vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3950, CVE-2020-3951) – VMware Security Announcement
• VMware Horizon 7.12 and VMware Horizon Client 5.4 – What’s New – 4-minute YouTube video
• VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.9: What’s New – 23-minute YouTube video
• VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 9.11: What’s New – 3-minute YouTube video
• Download VMware Horizon 7.12
• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 5.4
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service Release Notes March 2020 – Image Lifecycle Management (ILM) Service is now available for Horizon 7 On-Premises pods; WVD multi-session support – VMware Docs
• horizon-physical-machines – App to quickly add Physical Machines into a VMware Horizon Manual Pool and entitle users – Chris Halstead’s Github

Microsoft

• Microsoft Teams Machine-wide install: ALLUSER=1 ALLUSERS=1 – ALLUSERS=1 adds Teams to Apps & Features so all admins can uninstall – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Deprecation and end-of-support for cloud-hosted workloads (VDAs) in our Current Release (CR) of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops starting with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2003 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Studio 7.15.5000 Hotfix 1 – Resolved issue: after upgrade from 7.6, the time it takes to open some wizards (such as Machine Catalog and Delivery Group) might increase – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix HDX

• Microsoft Teams version 1.3.00.4461 fixes a critical bug where new users do not end up optimized when first launching Teams, and have to quit and relaunch – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix HDX RTOP 2.9 is a Long Term Service Release (LTSR). It is also the last version of RTOP that will be released and will be supported until October 14, 2025 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• HDX Graphics Overview – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix Profile Management

• Outlook Search Indexing Fails on Windows Server 2019 Citrix VDA with UPM Search Index roaming enabled – set EnablePerUserCatalog = 0 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Enhancements in Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer in CIC – BGP Route Host Injection (RHI) for multiple Kubernetes Zones – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix Gateway Endpoint Analysis (EPA) library for Windows updated Mar 8, 2020

VMware

• VMware Horizon Client privilege escalation vulnerability – CVSSv3 base score of 7.3 – fixed in Horizon Client 5.3 – VMware Security Advisory
• Download VMware App Volumes 4 Update 1 – Resolved Issues: Chrome fails with the “Aw,Snap!” error; login process spans a few minutes
• VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Deployment Utility (fling) – assists the deployment of UAG appliances
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM 2003: What’s New – YouTube

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• How to replace an installed Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB version on a Citrix Delivery Controller with a newer version – 1912 installer does not do this – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.9 LTSR for Microsoft Skype® for Business
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2002 for Mac

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC 12.1 Build 55.24 – replaces build 55.18 – High Availability fixes
• Proof of Concept deployment guide for Citrix Web Application Firewall – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix ADM Service (cloud) March 03, 2020 – 15 new features – ANZ region; licensing policies; View the ADC capacity issues in ADM; and more… – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Running RSA SecurID/Azure MFA side-by-side using an AD group on NetScaler Gateway – Mark DePalma

Citrix Endpoint Management

• XenMobile Server 10.12.0 Rolling Patch 1 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Assistant documentation – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware Horizon Desktop Watermark Fling updated March 02, 2020

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix VDA Commandline Helper Tool updated Feb 2020 for LTSR 1912 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Microsoft Server 2019: No window border/allwhite issue – Geir Dybbugt
• Citrix Quick Launch Tool v4.1 – supports Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) 1912 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix App Layering

• Supported upgrade paths for pre-19.1 versions – Citrix Docs

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix Director DismissAlerts.ps1 – PowerShell script to dismiss all the alerts generated by the Hypervisor at one go – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix WEM

• What’s new in Citrix Workspace Environment Management service (cloud) – faster logons, file type associations, new external task triggers – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC and ADM Cheat Sheets – Citrix Tech Zone

VMware

• Download VMware App Volumes 2.18.1 (ESB Release) – fix for Writable Volume Regular Backups feature
• VMware App Volumes 4 Migration Utility updated Feb 28 – VMware Flings
• VMware App Volumes Entitlement Sync fling Version 2.4 – VMware Flings
• Download VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.7.1 – addresses multiple security vulnerabilities

Microsoft

• Install Teams & OneDrive in Citrix (Machine-Based) – Manuel Winkel

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Proof of Concept guide for Microsoft Teams optimization in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2002 for HTML5 – USB device mapping
• Citrix FAS – Notes from the Field – Julian Mooren

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2001 for Mac – app protection support

Citrix ADC

• In March 2020 Microsoft is releasing a security update (ADV190023) with LDAP security changes – to avoid problems, Citrix ADC/Gateway LDAP must be configured for SSL/636 or TLS/389, not Plaintext 389 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Impact of SameSite cookie on Citrix ADC after Chrome upgrade – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix ADC K8S Ingress Controller 1.7.6 – Canary support, SSL passthrough, ConfigMap support, TLS client authentication support, Route health injection (RHI) – GitHub

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM Ports and URL’s That Need To Be Opened for Communication – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix Gateway RfWebUI based custom portal theme not working after upgrade to 13.0.47.22 and 13.0.47.24 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.12.0.8 – Released 6-Feb-2020

VMware

• Introducing Horizon + VMware Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) – VMware Blog Post
• Workspace ONE Intelligence January 2020 Update – 4-minute YouTube video

Microsoft

• Windows Virtual Desktop scaling tool: Schedule VMs to start and stop based on Peak and Off-Peak business hours; Scale out VMs based on number of sessions per CPU core – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Software 10.1 – bug fixes

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

VMware

• VMware OS Optimization Tool updated January 28 – new Finalize (aka Sealing) tasks
• Download VMware Workspace ONE Access 20.01 – formerly known as VMware Identity Manager – for Horizon, leave connector at version 19.03
• VMware Workspace ONE Access 20.01 Technical Overview and Connector Architecture – 13-minute YouTube video
• Workspace ONE UEM 2001: What’s New – 8-minute YouTube video

Microsoft

• Roaming Edge Chromium in Citrix UPM, Ivanti EM, and VMware DEM – Avanite

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2001 – supports Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912; supports Win10 1909; supports the VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controller
• Citrix App Layering 4: LayerPriority Utility updated January 2020

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC 13.0 Build 47.24 – security fix
• Download Citrix ADC 12.1 Build 55.18 – security fix
• Download Citrix NetScaler 12.0 Build 63.13 – security fix
• Download Citrix NetScaler 11.1 Build 63.15 – security fix
• Download Citrix NetScaler 10.5 Build 70.12 – security fix
• FireEye and Citrix worked together to release a new tool that searches ADC for indicators of compromise (IoC) associated with attacker activity

Microsoft

• Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated Jan 22, 2020

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) in Citrix – Kasper Johansen

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Receiver 4.12 reached End-of-life in December 2019 – upgrade to Workspace app. Or downgrade to 4.9 LTSR, which is EOL August 2022

Citrix ADC

• Patched Citrix ADC code expected this month – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix’s CVE-2019-19781 Verification Tool – requires Python
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a utility that tests whether Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway software is susceptible to the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability
• Citrix ADC Indicators of compromise – Manuel Kolloff

Citrix Cloud

• Building a simple Citrix microapp that shows blog posts from a WordPress RSS feed – Phil Wiffen

VMware

• What’s New in VMware App Volumes 4 – VMware Tech Zone
• Download VMware App Volumes 4.0
• How to upgrade App Volumes 2.18 to 4.0 – Laurens van Duijn
• App Volumes Migration Utility fling – migrates AppStacks, which are managed by VMware App Volumes 2.18, to the new AppStack format of VMware App Volumes 4.0
• VMware Tools 11.0 addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability – or fix folder ACL
• Download VMware Tools 11.0.5
• VMware Horizon Reach fling updated January 17, 2020
• Documentation for VMware Horizon Universal Broker – alternative to Cloud Pod Architecture – VMware Docs

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