Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

WEM/Profile Management

• Google Chrome does not remember user login data – Citrix KB article

NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Feature Phase) 12.0 Build 59.8 – Addition of TLS1.2 ciphers in the DEFAULT_BACKEND cipher group
• How to log SSL Protocols used by clients – Citrix Discussions

NetScaler MAS

• Download Citrix NetScaler MAS Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 59.8

XenMobile / Endpoint Management

• Download Updated Citrix XenMobile (Endpoint Management) MDX files for Secure Mail & Secure Web 10.8.65 V1 Released 19 Sep 2018

ShareFile

• Upgrading from ShareFile Drive Mapper to Citrix Files for Windows – Citrix KB article

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud now supports delegated administration and Config Logging – CTP Christiaan Brinkhoff

VMware

• Download VMware Identity Manager 3.3.0
• Download VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.6.0 – supports Horizon 7.6 and vROps 6.7
• Download VMware ThinApp 5.2.4 – Win10 1803 support
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service: What’s New in the September 2018 Release – VMware Blog Post
• Workspace ONE UEM 9.7 Is Live! – VMware Blog Post
• Troubleshooting Blast through UAG – VMware Communities

Microsoft

• Download Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool updated 9/21/2018

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix

• Citrix CTP and CTA Application Now Open – Apply before Oct 31 – Citrix Blog Post

StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1809 for HTML5 – newer than 1808

Receiver / Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app (aka Receiver) 1809 for Windows – 1809 is newer than 1808
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1809 for Linux – 1809 is newer than 1808
• Download Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.6 for Microsoft Skype® for Business

NetScaler Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries 4.3.204.0 released Sept 14,2018

XenMobile / Endpoint Management

• Download XenMobile Server 10.9
• To continue reliable Android mail sync and notifications, enable push notifications based on Google Firebase Cloud Messaging service (FCM) in Citrix Endpoint Management before November 1, 2018 – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Secure Mail 10.8.65 iOS CallerID using CallKit directly from Secure Mail instead of exporting contacts – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud has added two features that are super important: Access Delegation, and Configuration Logging – Citrix Martin Zugec on Twitter

VMware

• VMware Horizon Session Recording fling – record users activity in Blast Extreme virtual desktop and application sessions
• Deploy and Configure Digital Workspaces via VMware Horizon Cloud and Workspace ONE in the Microsoft Azure Cloud – CTP Christiaan Brinkhoff
• Download VMware Tools 10.3.2

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• What’s New with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – Q3 2018 Update – 1 hour recorded webinar – YouTube
• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1808 is available for download again as version 1808.2
• CTX article to help customers upgrade from -=1808.1 to 1808.2 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 – Citrix KB article
• Citrix Studio shows an error ‘Could not load file or assembly ‘Citrix.Diagnostics.Tracing’ after upgrade to 1808 version – Copy the missing dll (Citrix.Diagnostics.Tracing.dll) to Studio location – Citrix KB article

NetScaler ADC

• Citrix NetScaler crashes constantly after firmware upgrade to 12.0 build 58.15 – upgrade to 12.0-58.18 or 12.1-49.23 – Citrix KB article
• Citrix Networking Master Class – September 2018 – YouTube
• Citrix NetScaler (Citrix ADC) with an Intel Coleto SSL Chip, e.g an MPX 5900, DTLS is not supported means you currently cannot make use of the EDT protocol with this hardware – CTP Sacha Thomet on Twitter

XenMobile/Endpoint Management

• Download Updated Citrix XenMobile MDX files 10.8.60 V1 for Secure Mail & Secure Web

Hypervisor/XenServer

• Download Citrix XenServer 7.6 Enterprise Edition – Thin provisioning for shared block storage

Citrix Partner

• What’s new in Citrix Cloud services – 1 hour recorded webinar

VMware

• VMware Horizon 7.6 Technical What’s New Overview Video – YouTube
• Download VMware Horizon 7.6.0 Standard
• Download VMware User Environment Manager 9.5.0
• Download VMware App Volumes 2.14.2
• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 4.9

Microsoft

• Office 365 ProPlus will also continue to be supported on Windows Server 2016 until October 2025 – Microsoft 365 Blog

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix

• Citrix Downloads is now using the new product names.
• Citrix licenses at mycitrix.com also renamed. Platinum renamed to Premium. Enterprise renamed to Advanced. Virtual Apps Advanced is actually XenApp Enterprise.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1808, All Editions
  • The Delivery Controller installer was pulled to fix an upgrade problem, but the VDA installers are still downloadable
  • What’s new in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1808 – e.g. application limits per machine, Director GPO logon duration breakdown – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Delivery Controller Broker Service 7.15 LTSR CU2 Hotfix BrokerSvcWX64_7_15_2001 – LHC fix – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Download Citrix Health Assistant 1.6 updated Aug 24 – Troubleshoot VDA Registration and Session Launch – Citrix KB article
• Download Citrix VDA Group Policy Client side Extension Hotfix 1 for 7.15 LTSR CU2 – Citrix KB article

Director/Monitoring

• How Citrix Director 1808 collects group policy duration from VDAs – Citrix KB article

WEM/Profile Management

• Google Chrome Preferences and Outlook Signature are not getting saved – A private fix is available

Provisioning

• What’s new in Citrix Provisioning (PVS) 1808 – Improved performance with asynchronous I/O streaming – Citrix Docs

Receiver/Workspace app

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.4000 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 4

NetScaler

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 49.23 – nFactor for VPN plugin, TLS 1.3 support
• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Feature Phase) 12.0 Build 58.18 – replaces build 58.15 – fix for PFX import, several Gateway AppFlow fixes
• Citrix NetScaler ADC 12.1 build 49 has a new search interface. Much easier to use.

NetScaler MAS

• Download Citrix NetScaler MAS Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 49.23

Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile)

• What’s New in Citrix Endpoint Management (formerly XenMobile Service) 10.18.14 – Device policy support for iOS 12, More Chrome OS restrictions, add the package ID of the public store Android app, Screen capture restriction for Android Enterprise – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Analytics Documentation – Citrix Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Download Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 LTSR Cumulative Update 6 (XenApp / XenDesktop 7.6.6000) – All Editions
• What’s new for managing Office 365 on Citrix – recorded webinar

MCS

• It looks like VMware vSphere is now supported for Citrix MCS with Linux VDA VMs – Citrix Docs

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.13
• What’s new in Citrix App Layering 4.13 – clone image templates; supports newer hypervisor versions; Azure premium storage – Citrix Blog Post

NetScaler Gateway

• Citrix NetScaler Master Class August 2018 – new Gateway features (e.g. SAML / nFactor in Gateway VPN Plug-in / Receiver), Gateway Connector for Cloud access to on-prem app
• Citrix HDX Insight 2.0 (NetScaler AppFlow) – Old = 500 ICA AppFlow connections at 90% NetScaler CPU; new = 1200 ICA AppFlow connections at 25% NetScaler CPU – Citrix Blog Post

XenMobile

• Download Updated XenMobile MDX files for Citrix Secure Mail and Secure Web 10.8.55 V1

ShareFile

• Download Citrix ShareFile StorageZones Controller 5.4

VMware

• VMware Performance Impact Statement for ‘L1 Terminal Fault – VMM’ mitigations – “Our tests showed that after enabling the ESXi Side-Channel-Aware Scheduler the maximum performance capacity of the host can diminish by as much as 30%” – Knowledgebase Article
• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.3.1
• Introduction to Workspace ONE Intelligence – 5 minute YouTube video

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

WEM/Profile Management

• In-place upgrades from any of Citrix Workspace Environment Management 4.x to the latest released (current) version are supported – no need to step upgrade – Citrix Docs

Receiver/Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1808 – replaces Receiver
• What’s new in Citrix Workspace app 1808 – Citrix Docs
• New Citrix Workspace app GPO setting for SSON to Gateway

NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 11.1 Build 59.10 released Aug 7

NetScaler MAS

• What’s New in Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics Cloud Service – Github for stylebooks, change Agent nsrecover password – Citrix Docs

NetScaler SD-WAN

• Download Citrix SD-WAN Standard/Premium Appliance Software Release 10.1.0

Citrix Cloud

• Documentation for power cycle of VMs on Google Cloud Platform with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Cloud Service – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 4.8.1 – security fix

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Updated Azure Plug-in for Citrix XenDesktop 7.18 – fix for Azure Government – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Download Citrix Connection Quality Indicator 1.4.0.4 Updated: Aug 02, 2018 – Citrix KB article

App Layering

• Citrix App Layering Platform Layer domain membership broken when adding version – article describes changes to 4.12 connector layer caching – Citrix KB article
• Microsoft Office 365 installations using the Office Deployment Tool fail on Citrix App Layering 4.x – contact Citrix support for patched version of 4.12 which contains the fix. Fix will be included in App Layering 4.13 – Citrix KB article

StoreFront

• Add Safari 12 and later to the list of browsers that Citrix Receiver Launcher will be used from StoreFront – for NPAPI removal – Citrix Blog Post

XenMobile

• Download Citrix XenMobile Mail Manager 10.1.6 Released 2-Aug-2018
• Download Updated XenMobile MDX files for App store 10.8.50 V1 ( updated Secure Mail & Secure Web for iOS and Android)

Citrix Cloud

• Documentation for Citrix Cloud Access Control service – Citrix Docs
• Workspace Environment Management (WEM) is now available from Citrix Cloud – requires cloud service licensing: Citrix Workspace Premium service, XenApp and XenDesktop service, or XenApp Service – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• Download VMware OS Optimization Tool July 30, 2018, b1100
• VMware OS Optimization Tool causes Win10 Start Menu delay – Fling comments
• New Horizon Helpdesk Utility Fling

Other

• Nutanix Announces Intent to Acquire Frame – Frame is Desktop as a Service
• Cisco is buying Duo Security for $2.35B in cash – Duo is two-factor authentication provider

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.12
• What’s new in Citrix App Layering 4.12 – 1803 support, fix for UPM profile streaming, connector cache improvements – still no User Layer – Citrix Docs

WEM/Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 4.7
• In-depth how-to on updating CitrixWEM from 4.x to 4.7! – CTA Marco Hofmann at CUGC

NetScaler

• Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) documentation at Citrix Docs
• NetScaler nFactor Sample Config: Group Extraction, followed by LDAP (Active Directory), or Azure MFA (NPS) – Carlstalhood.com

NetScaler Gateway

• Citrix SSO Client User Guide – next gen iOS VPN client for NetScaler Gateway built using Apple’s Network Extension framework – replaces the legacy Citrix VPN client – Citrix Docs

XenMobile

• Download Updated Citrix XenMobile MDX files for App store 10.8.45 V1 ( Secure Mail and Secure Web) Released 18 July 2018

VMware

• Download VMware OS Optimization Tool July 20, 2018, b1099 – updated templates for Win10/2016, prevent OneDrive
• Download VMware Horizon 7.5.1 – security fix, vGPU instant clone fix

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 April 2018 Update (1803)

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

VDA

• Removing UWP apps on Windows 10 1803 – the easy way! – YouTube video – CTP James Rankin

WEM/Profile Management

• On Win10 1709, Citrix UPM is not syncing signature .htm as well as Chrome Preferences file? – Citrix Discussions

StoreFront

• Citrix Application Probe Agent unattended installation – CTA Dennis Span

NetScaler

• Citrix NetScaler Master Class July 2018 – what’s new in 12.1, and SD-WAN 10.1

NetScaler MAS

• What’s New in NetScaler MA Cloud Service July 12, 2018 – Citrix Docs

NetScaler SD-WAN

• How to configure Citrix SD-WAN on Microsoft Virtual WAN – YouTube
• Azure Virtual WAN announcement

XenMobile

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.8.0 Rolling Patch 4 – renews APNs certificate for XenMobile Server that expires on September 8, 2018
• What’s New in Citrix XenMobile Cloud Service 10.18.11 July 10, 2018 – Citrix Docs

ShareFile

• Download Citrix ShareFile Drive Mapper 3.12.507.3 released Jul 11, 2018

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 10.3.0
• Quick-Start Tutorial for VMware Horizon JMP Integrated Workflow – 96 pages

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

XenApp/XenDesktop

• XenApp & XenDesktop 6.5 – 7.13 are End Of Life
• Citrix Policy Migration Tool -reads Citrix Studio policy configuration information, and then manually creates each policy during the import process – CTA Shane O’Neill

VDA

• How to bring back the disconnect option for Windows 10 running on Citrix XenDesktop – Citrix KB article

Receiver / Workspace App

• Citrix will transition away from Citrix Receiver to Citrix Workspace app, even if you are only using XenApp and XenDesktop on-premises – Citrix Blog Post
• Download Citrix Workspace app Technology Preview for Windows

NetScaler

• Download NetScaler Firmware 12.0 Build 58.15
• NetScaler data formats for Geo Location Database Import – Citrix KB article

NetScaler MAS

• Download NetScaler MAS Release 12.0 Build 58.15

XenMobile

• Download Updated Citrix XenMobile MDX files for App store 10.8.40 V1
• QuickEdit will remain available as a XenMobile App. Citrix is not applying the End of Life (EOL) status on September 1, 2018 that was communicated earlier – Citrix Docs

ShareFile

• Download Citrix ShareFile User Management Tool 1.8.1

VMware

• Supported computer and user assignments combinations for AppStacks and Writable Volumes – VMware Knowledgebase article
• New Release: VMware PowerCLI 10.1.1 – support for Horizon 7.5 – VMware Blog Post
• VMware Windows 10 Policy Builder Feature Walk Through – YouTube

Microsoft

• Download Office Deployment Tool updated June 26
• Outlook OST Cache Size Estimator – Leee Jeffries
• Windows Server 2019 brings new capabilities for Remote Desktop Services – Windows Server Summit

Other

• NVIDIA virtual GPU (GRID) software 6.2 (390.72/391.81) July 2018 – support for VMware Horizon 7.5, Citrix XenDesktop 7.18, and XenServer 7.5; unlicensed vGPUs allow screen resolutions higher than 1280×1024

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