Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Predicted loss in VDI scalability numbers due to security patching – LoginVSI

Citrix Provisioning

• How to Configure PVS vDisk Update Management Using SCCM – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.1 Build 53.12

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway Endpoint Analysis Libraries dated Jul 25, 2019

Citrix SD-WAN

• What’s New in Citrix SD-WAN 11 – Citrix Docs
• Install Citrix SD-WAN SE VPX on Google Cloud Platform – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10.0 Rolling Patch 3

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Connector -101 – CTP Gareth Carson

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• What’s Fixed in Citrix App Layering 1907 – Citrix Docs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• New Citrix WEM Agent installer – Citrix Docs

Citrix StoreFront

• Configuration Utility for Citrix Workspace app for Chrome and HTML5 – updated July 15

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1907 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• What’s new in Citrix ingress controller 1.2.0 for Kubernetes – Expose services of type LoadBalancer; Establish network connectivity between Kubernetes nodes and Ingress Citrix ADC using Citrix node controller – Github

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix Application Delivery Management Cloud Service July 16, 2019 – Apply virtual server licenses and enable analytics in a single workflow, Logstream for Partitions, BLX support – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• July Ask the Cloud Experts: Citrix Director & Studio – YouTube

VMware

• VMware Workspace ONE UEM™ Powered by AirWatch 1907 Release Notes

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download User Session Disconnect Hotfix – For Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1906.1 VDA
• Download Citrix Connection Quality Indicator Updated: Jul 12, 2019 – Fixed an issue that GPO settings could not control notifications
• Controlling the Starting of the Citrix Desktop Service (BrokerAgent) – updated May 16 – Jeremy Saunders

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app 1904 onwards certain changes were made to the process handling in the installer – Therefore, you might need to update your script
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1906 for Mac

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1907 for HTML5
• StoreFront 1906.1.0.27 upgrade and installation issues – replace StoreFront on CVAD metainstaller with build 1906.1.0.31

Citrix App Layering

• Citrix App Layering – Four common mistakes (and how to avoid them) – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix ADC

• Customizations to make the nFactor logon interface more intuitive for rich user experience – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix NetScaler Gateway: EPA scan slowness on Windows 10 build 1809 – Upgrade NS to 12.0 or 12.1 builds

Citrix Cloud

• What’s new in Citrix Analytics July 11, 2019 – risk events whenever there is a change in Admin or Executive privilege status of a user

Microsoft

• FSLogix Containers – Search Index Considerations and Troubleshooting – FSLogix Blog Post
• Getting started with FSLogix profile containers on Azure Files in Windows Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Blog Post

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Helpdesk Utility fling updated July 11, 2019 – No longer requires a helpdesk license
• Download Horizon Session Recording fling updated July 10, 2019 – now supports Horizon 7.8 and above
• Download VMware Horizon Toolbox fling updated July 12, 2019
• Computer-based Global Policy Objects (GPOs) that require reboot are not applied on instant clones – improved in Horizon 7.8+ – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Horizon Cloud Q2 Release – Learn What’s New – VMware Blog Post

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• We’re aware of some random Disconnect issues with the citrix virtual apps and desktops 1906 VDA and Workspace app. We’ve got support and engineering teams engaged to try to figure out what’s causing this. Can’t promise an ETA, but we’re on it xx – Citrix Phil Wiffen on Twitter
• If a customer uses a Citrix Current Release (CR) VDA with LTSR version Controller, the site is no longer LTSR compliant and not eligible for the benefits of LTSR including extended support – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix Director 7.15 LTSR CU4 Does Not List All Entries Under Session And Machine Filters – private fix – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix StoreFront 1906 (build 3.19.0.31) to resolve upgrade problems

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1906 for Linux

Citrix ADC

• Citrix Networking SSL / TLS Best Practices updated with TLS 1.3 ciphers and Zombie POODLE vulnerability information – Citrix Tech Zone
• How to fix jQuery Object Prototype Pollution Vulnerability on Citrix NetScalers – Manually update JQuery Library on the NetScaler – Jess Martin
• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 11.1 Build 62.8
• Citrix ADC App Firewall Signature update for June 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM 13 Infrastructure Analytics: Visualize the health of your Citrix Networking devices – YouTube

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.9
  • What’s New in VMware Horizon 7.9 and Horizon Client 5.1 – VMware Tech Zone
• Upgrade to VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 3.6 to resolve SACK vulnerability. Or disable SACK – VMware Knowledgebase article
• VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.6: Deep Dive – AirWatch Secure Email Gateway, AirWatch Per-app Tunnel for SDK apps – YouTube
• Download VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 3

Microsoft

• Download and Install Microsoft FSLogix – The FSLogix software no longer requires license keys – Microsoft Docs
• Office365 ProPlus for Server 2019 — plus all fslogix products for (almost) everyone! – Microsoft Blog Post

Other

• Teradici unveiled “PCoIP Ultra.” How is it different from PCoIP and where does it fit in the market? – Rachel Berry

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1906, All Editions
• What’s new in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1906 – Citrix Docs
• Deprecated features in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1906 – Brokering components on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 x86, and Microsoft SQL 2014 and older – Citrix Docs
• Citrix IT Service Management connector (ITSM connector) for ServiceNow User Guide – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• Session Recording 1906 – RBAC policies to place granular rules who can view recorded sessions; tag browser URLs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• How to roam Start menu pinned applications – add AppData\Local\Packages to folders to mirror – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 1906
• History of the Windows user profile in EUC environments (1994-2019) – CTP James Rankin

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 1906
• Powershell SnapIns are not upgraded from PVS 7.15 LTSR CU3 to 7.15 LTSR CU4 after the upgrade is complete – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Designing StoreFront Multi-Site Aggregation – Citrix Tech Zone
• Configure on-prem StoreFront 1906 to send events to Citrix Analytics – Citrix Docs
• Tech Insight – Access Control for StoreFront – YouTube

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.7000 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 7
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1905 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Canary deployment with Citrix ADC – Content Switching with “sys.random” rules – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud can now use on-premises Citrix Gateway 12.1 52.15 or later for end-user authentication into Citrix Workspace – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Using Amazon RDS for the Horizon 7 Events Database – Sean Massey

Microsoft

• As of July 1, 2019, Microsoft will no longer offer MFA Server for new deployments – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU software 9.0 (430.27/430.30/431.02) June 2019 – Win10 1903 support, VMware Horizon 7.9 support

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1906 for HTML5
• The process to disable CEIP in Citrix HTML5 Workspace app changed in version 1906 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.1 Build 52.15
  • Citrix ADC 12.1 build 52.15 has OTP Push
• Citrix Networking Master Class – June 2019 – YouTube

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.1 Build 52.15

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix ADC Native OTP: Securing OTP management – first device registered only from within the premises. Subsequent devices use one of the previously registered devices’ OTP – Citrix Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Software now has Long-Term Support Branch and New-Feature Branch
• Deploy Nutanix Xi Frame AHV On-Premises VDI – Saadallah Chebaro
• iOS 13 MDM User Enrollment – Jack Madden

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Impact of different Windows 10 versions on VDI host density – newer versions = lower density – Go-EUC

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1905
• Citrix App Layering and Office 2019: you must download and run the App Layering OS Machine Tools from this 1905 release
• Citrix Optimizer – App Layering template added to Citrix Community Marketplace – Citrix Rob Zylowski on Twitter

Citrix Provisioning

• vDisk Replicator Utility v3.5 to synchronize PVS images has been released! – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10.0 Rolling Patch 1

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated 6/7/2019

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Performance and scalability tips and tricks from Citrix experts – Current Release has lower CPU than LTSR – Synergy session on YouTube
• PowerScale is now released – similar to Smart Scale – Leee Jeffries

Citrix HDX

• Download Citrix Connection Quality Indicator v19.05.0.24

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1905 for HTML5
• Citrix Workspace app for HTML5 1905 experimental feature: you can now use the Ctrl C and Ctrl V hotkeys to copy and paste text – disabled by default – Citrix Docs
• Citrix MSI Log Analyzer v1.2.0.9 supports StoreFront logs

Citrix ADC

• If your Citrix NetScaler ADC has Cavium SSL Chip, then upgrade the firmware to resolve Zombie POODLE security vulnerability or SSL Labs gives F grade – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix NetScaler 12.0 is end of maintenance on October 1, 2019 – upgrade to 12.1, or downgrade to 11.1 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• What’s New in Citrix Ingress Controller 1.3 for Kubernetes – Red Hat OpenShift support, ADC admin partitions support, Rancher support, Expose services using NodePort – Github

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix Application Delivery Manager (ADM) cloud service May 31, 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix ADC 13 OTP Push Configuration using nFactor Visualizer – carlstalhood.com

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Toolbox 7.8! – supports Horizon View 7.7 & 7.8
• Workspace ONE Intelligence Series – Q1 2019 Releases Update – YouTube
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM™ Powered by AirWatch 1905 Release Notes – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated 5/28/2019

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Windows 10 1903 is supported in Citrix VAD 1903 or newer and 7.15 LTSR CU4 or newer – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Optimizer – v2.5.0.60 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Access Control for SaaS and Web apps in on-premises StoreFront – Preview
  • Access Control for SaaS and web apps from on-prem StoreFront – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix ADC

• Detailed configuration guide for OTP Push Notifications – 24 pages – Srinivasan Shanmugam on LinkedIn
• Download Citrix ADC BLX image 13.0 Build 36.27 – Linux RPMs for bare metal deployment of ADC
• Citrix ADC CPX as Sidecar and Istio Support for Service Mesh Architecture – and Service Graphs for Cloud Native Services – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Intelligent Workspace

• Citrix virtual assistant – Synergy Session on YouTube
• New Citrix Workspace intelligence – microapps, workspace assistance, and search – Citrix Blog Post
• Citrix Intelligent Workspace Microapp Data Flow – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Managed Desktops documentation – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Workspace for Google Cloud – use G Suite credentials to access Citrix Workspace; Google calendar personalized feeds within Citrix Workspace – Citrix Press Release

VMware

• How Horizon Connections are formed and how the traffic flows – VMware Tech Zone

Other

• What’s new in ControlUp V7.4 – triggers can run script actions, easier to find scripts, email templates

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• How to Build A Virtual Desktop (VDI) Experience Properly Cheat Sheet – CTP Jason Samuel
• Download Citrix License Server for Windows – Version 11.15.0.0 Build 27000 – new Dashboard and Cloud Registration
• Utilizing Local Host Cache for Nondisruptive Database Upgrades in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• “Changing from Windows Server 2016 to 2019 was 18% lower user density and 26% lower user experience” – ICT-R

Citrix HDX

• Download Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.8 for Microsoft Skype® for Business

Citrix Workspace app

• Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Citrix Workspace app for Windows prior to version 1904 and Receiver for Windows to LTSR 4.9 CU6 version earlier than 4.9.6001 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.6001 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 6 – fixes security vulnerability
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1904.1 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 36.27
• Push notification for Citrix Gateway 13.0 Native OTP – uses Cloud Service – Citrix Docs
• Configure the number of OTP devices a user can register with Citrix Gateway 13.0 – Citrix Docs
• What’s new in Citrix ADC 13.0 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 36.27
• What’s new in Citrix ADM 13.0 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Hypervisor

• Download Citrix XenServer 7.1 CU2 hotfix that includes the drivers required to support Windows Server 2019 VMs

Citrix Cloud

• PowerShell to register App-V packages with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Cloud service – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Security Analytics New Features May 09, 2019 – Privileged user monitoring, Custom Reports, Weekly email summary – Citrix Docs

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