Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2006.1 for Windows
• Workspace for Web Not Detecting Citrix Workspace App for Windows 2006 Client – fixed in 2006.1 – Knowledgebase article

Citrix Gateway

• Integrating Okta with Citrix NetScaler Gateway without Citrix Federated Authentication Service – Alchemist Pascal P.
• HowTo: Okta SAML at Citrix Gateway with SSO Without FAS – Michael Shuster
• HowTo: Azure MFA SAML and Citrix Gateway with SSO Without FAS – Michael Shuster

VMware

• VMware OS Optimization Tool updated June 2 – easier to re-enable Windows Update on a Windows image that has previously been optimized and had this disabled.
• Interoperability of VMware Carbon Black and Horizon – VMware Knowledgebase article

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Allowing multiple server sessions with FSLogix Profile Containers by using Citrix UPM – CTP James Rankin
• You can now also import Group Policy settings (registry-based settings) into Citrix Cloud WEM Service – no edit, just import and view – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2005 for Mac

VMware

• Win 10 2004 requires VMware Horizon Agent 7.12 or Horizon Agent 7.10.2 – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Download VMware App Volumes 2.18.4

Microsoft

• Navigating Azure Storage options for FSLogix Containers – CTP James Kindon

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix HDX

• Download Citrix HDX RealTime Connector 2.9.100 for Microsoft Skype® for Business

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2005 for HTML5 – security improvements

Citrix Cloud

• You can now indicate whether a restart schedule affects machines that are in maintenance mode – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.10.2 – bug fixes and security fixes
• VMware Horizon Session Recording fling updated May 21 – web service now supports high availability
• VMware Horizon Helpdesk Utility fling updated May 21

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Deprecation of Citrix License Administration Console – instead Use the Citrix Licensing Manager – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app for Mac: Graphical distortions: random Black rows, columns and cells. incomplete characters – Upgrade VDA to 1912 Cumulative Update 1 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC 13.0 build 52.24: Workspace app for iOS: error “No Apps available at this time” – add rewrite policy to insert pwcount cookie – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix Networking Master Class – May 2020 – API Gateway; ADC Service

Citrix ADM

• WAF learning in Citrix ADM Service (cloud) – can Auto Deploy relaxation rules – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download XenMobile Server 10.12.0 Rolling Patch 2

VMware

• Bulk convert existing shortcuts to Dynamic Environment Manager – Ivan de Mes
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM™ Powered by AirWatch 2005 Release Notes – VMware Docs
• Free 182 days of 24/7 access to VMware Learning Zone Premium
• Getting started with the Horizon REST api – Wouter Kursten

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR, Cumulative Update 1 – All Editions
• SQL 2019 is supported with CU1 and higher for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 1912 LTSR, Cumulative update 1

Citrix StoreFront

• Download StoreFront 1912 LTSR, Cumulative Update 1

Citrix ADC

• WAF Signature version 44 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• EPA libraries for Mac updated May 4

VMware

• Best Practices for Published Applications and Desktops in VMware Horizon and VMware Horizon Apps – VMware Tech Zone
• Download VMware Tools 11.1.0 – VMware Tools 11.1.0 fails to install on a VM with VMware Horizon Agent 7.7 or earlier installed

Microsoft

• Microsoft recommends excluding Team’s Media-Stack folder from profile roaming.
• Onboarding and servicing non-persistent VDI machines with Microsoft Defender ATP – Microsoft Blog

Other

• ControlUp v8.1.5 Release Notes – shows the name of the application (and window title) currently running in the foreground
• NVIDIA vGPU software 10.2(440.87/440.87/443.05) May 2020 – security fix; vSphere 7.0 support; Horizon 7.12 support; CVAD 2003 support

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• CVAD 1912 hotfix and CVAD 2003 hotfix – In a double-hop scenario, a single user might consume two Citrix Concurrent User (CCU) licenses.

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Firmware Release Cycle is now longer – next ADC version not until 2021; ADC 13.0 gets two years of new features; maintenance versions not until 2021 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

VMware

• Persona is deprecated and will be removed in Horizon 8 – VMware comment
• Download VMware Open Virtualization Format Tool 4.3.0 Patch 2
• Download VMware vCenter Server 6.7U3g

Microsoft

• FSLogix version 2004 is now release a General release

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Activate the GPO setting “Show clear logon Background” to improve multi-monitor logon durations in Windows 10 1903 and newer – Citrix Discussions

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2004 for HTML5 – Brazilian Portuguese support

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix App Protection Policies POC Guide – Citrix Tech Zone
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2004 for Linux

Citrix ADC/Gateway

• Download EPA libraries (Opswat) updated April 20

Citrix ADM

• Use Citrix ADM built-in IPAM provider (or Infoblox) in ADM StyleBooks – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware is proactively extending support for Horizon 7.5.x by another 6 months until Nov 30th, 2020 – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Script to Report all VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes with low disk space – Aresh Sarkari
• Script to Report all VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes with Status Disabled and Orphaned – Aresh Sarkari
• VMware UAG cannot resolve DNS names ending in .local – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Supported Operating Systems and MSFT Active Directory Domain Functional Levels for VMware Horizon 8 2006 – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Supported Non-Windows 10 Guest Operating Systems for Horizon Agent and Remote Experience, for Horizon 8 version 2006 – Windows 7 not supported – VMware Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• Office documentation updated to rename Office to Microsoft 365 Apps – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Presently, vSphere 7.0 is not supported with Citrix Provisioning and Virtual Apps and Desktops – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download App Protection Policies 2003

Citrix ADC

• With release 84, Chrome is going to disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and only TLS 1.2 and above will be supported – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM Cloud Service has a new Security violations dashboard showing HTTP Slow Loris, DNS Slow Loris, HTTP Slow Post, and NXDomain Flood Attack – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Automation of Windows Updates for Templates – VMware Communities

Microsoft

• Invoke-FslShrinkDisk.ps1 – Shrinks FSLogix Profile and O365 dynamically expanding disk(s) – FSLogix Github

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix EDT MTU Discovery prevents EDT packet fragmentation that might result in performance degradation or failure to establish a session – VDA registry value to enable – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Connection Quality Indicator 20.3.0.38 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app for Windows – Quick start guide – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix ADC

• OTPEdit – tool to register OTP devices in AD without using manageotp site – Andreas Nick
• Citrix Networking Master Class – April 2020 – new features in ADC 13.0 latest build – 1.5 hours YouTube video

Citrix Gateway

• Configure Citrix Gateway VPN reverse split tunnel for Office 365 breakout – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download XenMobile Server 10.11.0 Rolling Patch 4

VMware

• vCenter 6.7 vulnerability in Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 10.0 – VMware Security Advisory
• VMware says to upgrade WS1 Access first, then App Volumes, then Horizon – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Unified Access Gateway (UAG) high CPU utilization – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Performance issues for Horizon 7 when using VMware VMTools 11.x – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Physical PC with VMware Horizon 7.8-7.11 is not supported on Win 10 1903 edition and above – fixed in Horizon 7.12 – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Download VMware Tools 11.0.6
• Horizon Client 5.4.1 for Linux fixes issues with PCoIP
• VMware OS Optimization Tool updated April 9 – CLI fixes
• Workspace ONE Access 20.01.0.1 Patch Release Notes – install on old connector; LDAP channel binding

Microsoft

• Spreading users over multiple file shares with FSLogix Profile Containers – CTP James Rankin and CTP Ryan Revord
• User group policies not applying when using FSLogix Profile Containers – don’t exclude AppData\Local\GroupPolicy – CTP James Rankin

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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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