Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Citrix License Server for Windows – vulnerabilities have been addressed in Citrix License Server for Windows version 11.16.3 build 28000 and newer – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix VDA

• No Audio on Google Chrome version 77.x inside ICA session – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Windows Server 2019, Citrix VDA and the Broken, Not-so-Fast Reconnect – CUGC

Citrix Workspace app

• If Citrix Receiver/StoreFront’s external beacon is citrix.com (not ping.citrix.com), “With immediate effect, all requests to citrix.com will be blocked.” – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Best practices for Citrix ADC network configurations – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.1 Build 54.13

Citrix ADM

• Intelligent Application Analytics – 5 minute YouTube video

VMware

• Download VMware OS Optimization Tool version b1110 released September 21, 2019 – Windows 10 1809+ support – OSOT removes calculator
• Download VMware App Volumes 2.17.1
• VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.7: What’s New – YouTube 8-minute video
• Overview of Opswat MetaAccess and how it integrates with VMware Unified Access Gateway – 7 minute YouTube video
• What’s New with the Workspace ONE Secure Productivity Apps – VMware Blog Post
• High availability, enhanced alerting, and more: What’s new in Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure – VMware Blog Post
• Automation of the Recompose/Push Image Process – Script does the following: Software installs based on SCCM and/or Windows updates, shut down the VM, take a snapshot, clean out the old snaps, power it back on all while updating ServiceNow Incident and Change – Chris Hildebrandt

Other

• Zoom application can be used with Citrix or VMWare VDI solutions and can be delivered to a thin client

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1909, All Editions
• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Disaster Recovery Planning – Stretched farms is not a DR design – Citrix Tech Zone
• Citrix Health Check checklist – carlstalhood.com

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 1909

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1909 for Windows

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 41.20 – Bot Management mitigates automated threats and unwanted bot traffic
• Citrix ADC 13.0 Bot Management documentation – Citrix Docs
• Citrix ADC Web App Firewall Signature update version 35 for September 2019 – Rails and WordPress vulnerabilities – Citrix Docs
• Store OTP secret data in an encrypted format – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 13.0 Build 41.20

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix Gateway AlwaysOn VPN before logon with a user persona – machine tunnel is replaced by user tunnel – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

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

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.10
  • What’s New in Horizon 7.10, Horizon Client 5.2, Dynamic Environment Manager 9.9 and App Volumes 2.18 – VMware Blog Post
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service Release Notes – v2.1 – September 2019 – VMware Docs
• Managing User Experience with VMware Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition – persistent vs non-persistent vs semi-persistent, application integration, profiles, provisioning options, etc. – 44-page guide on VMware Tech Zone
• VMware Horizon 7 Deployment Guide for Healthcare – VMware Tech Zone
• Download VMware Tools 11.0.0

Microsoft

• FSLogix: Capacity decrease of at least 27%. Also degradation in responsiveness, resulting in a slower user experience – G0-EUC

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Applications are open for the Citrix CTP and CTA classes of 2020! – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Path changes in Citrix WEM 1909 (on-prem) Agent require modification of Start-Up Scripts – CTP James Kindon

Citrix ADC

• Citrix Networking Master Class – September 2019 – 1 hour 45 minutes video on YouTube

Citrix Gateway

• How to publish a RemoteApp through Citrix Gateway RDP Proxy – Citrix Discussions

VMware

• Download VMware ThinApp 5.2.6 – Support for Windows 10 1903, security updates

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix supported hypervisors – Added support for vSphere 6.7 Update 3

Citrix StoreFront

• How to land on the categories view in StoreFront 1811+ – Citrix Blog Post
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1909 for HTML5 – support for DPI scaling

Citrix ADM

• ADC Application migration using Citrix ADM StyleBooks – YouTube
• Kubernetes Service Graph in Citrix ADM Cloud Service – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.11.0.10 – Released 4-Sep-2019

Citrix Cloud

• Connect Okta as an identity provider to Citrix Cloud – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware ESXi 6.7 U3 is now supported by Horizon 7.8 – VMware Interoperability Matrix
• VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8.1 supports Horizon 7.9 and vSphere 6.7 Update 3 – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• FSLogix Profile Compacting Tool – David Ott
• FSLogix Application Masking – Advanced Hiding of Project and Visio – CTP Jim Moyle at YouTube
• OneDrive sync client now supports Windows Server 2019 with Files On-Demand – Microsoft Blog

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 LTSR Cumulative Update 8 – All Editions

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1908 – Windows 10 version 1903 is now supported; user layer repair

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix WEM Cloud Service documentation has some info on upcoming Profile Management 1909 features – Citrix Docs
• Some considerations around @fslogix containers and high availability with Azure Files, Cloud Cache and more – CTP James Kindon

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.8000 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 8
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1908 for Linux
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1909 Technology Preview for macOS – Support for macOS Catalina 10.15

Citrix ADC

• Citrix Web App Firewall Signature version 34 applicable for NetScaler VPX 11.1, NetScaler 12.0, Citrix ADC 12.1, and Citrix ADC 13.0 platform – more WordPress rules
• How To Choose Right Proxy Architecture For Micro-Services Based Application Delivery – YouTube

VMware

• Horizon announcements at VMworld 2019 – VMware Blog Post
• Workspace ONE VMworld 2019 Announcements – VMware Blog Post
• Project Pacific – Technical Overview – Kubernetes control of vSphere
• VMware Workspace ONE Hub Services Release Notification – August 2019 – VMware Docs

Other

• NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Release 9.1 – security updates; support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops version 7 1906

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix StoreFront

• XML External Entity (XXE) Processing Vulnerability in Citrix StoreFront Server – fixed in 7.6 CU8, 7.15 CU4, or 1903+

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Web App Firewall Signature version 32 – new rules for WordPress – Citrix Docs
• Citrix ADC Security: create system KEK files to encrypt ns.conf passwords – Michael Shuster
• Citrix Networking Master Class – August 2019 – ADC BLX – YouTube

VMware

• Only VMware Horizon version 7.9 is supported with vSphere 6.7 U3 – VMware Interoperability Matrix
• Download VMware vSphere 6.7U3
• VMware User Environment Manager renamed to Dynamic Environment Manager?
• SRM support for Identity Manager Disaster Recovery – VMware Tech Zone
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM™ Powered by AirWatch 1908 Release Notes – VMware Docs

Other

• ControlUp v7.5.1.1 Release Notes

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix VDA Cleanup Utility v1.6.0.6 – removes browser content redirection, supports Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrades, 2016 support – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• If favorites exist, go to favorites tab. If favorites do not exist, go to the store tab – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 62.8

Citrix ADM

• New Citrix ADM Cloud feature – migrate VIP config from one ADC to a different ADC – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Location analysis using vROPs for Horizon – Cameron Fore

Other

• Use ControlUp Automation to speed up Citrix Local Host Cache failover – YouTube

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Schedule periodic logging data deletion – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• Updated Microsoft licensing terms for cloud dedicated hosts (e.g. AWS) – only license mobility allowed – Windows Server doesn’t have license mobility so must purchase new; Windows 10 Enterprise requires VDA E3/E5 (per user)’t have license mobility so must purchase new; Windows 10 Enterprise requires VDA E3/E5 (per user) – Microsoft Licensing
• Bye SmartScale, Hello PowerScale! – CUGC recorded webinar

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Migrating GPO settings to WEM Cloud Service – CTP James Kindon

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1908 for HTML5

Citrix ADC

• Citrix Networking Master Class – July 2019 – Private Cloud (e.g. OpenStack), Public Cloud – YouTube

Citrix Content Collaboration

• What’s new in Citrix storage zones controller 5.8 – Checkin and checkout for files from Network Shares Connector, create MS Office documents in on-premises folders – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Horizon Cloud Services – August 2019 updates and feature enhancements – YouTube

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1906.2 – respin to include hotfixes

Citrix App Layering

• Citrix App Layering Reference Architecture in Tech Zone – Citrix Docs
• VDAs are not registering using a published image – Use GPO/GPP to add the proper accounts and services – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Analytics now supports the European Union region – Citrix Docs
• Tech Insight – Citrix Workspace cloud with on-prem Citrix Gateway as IdP – YouTube

VMware

• Workspace ONE Intelligence: What’s New – August 2019 – YouTube

Microsoft

• How to open an FSLogix Support Request – Microsoft Forums

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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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