Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix GPO Scanner tool for invalid policy entries causing lost policy data after a CVAD upgrade – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix Delivery Group Functional Levels – required for packages – Citrix Docs

Citrix HDX

• What is Microsoft Teams VDI 2.0? – not GA yet from Microsoft; new media engine (VDI 2.0) on the endpoint – Citrix Knowledgebase article

NetScaler ADC

• Download NetScaler 13.1 Build 53.17 – 13.1 supports Web App Firewall (WAF) protection for Gateway virtual servers; OpenSSH version 9.x; Improved SSL performance for encryption algorithms
• Recommended NetScaler native OTP configurations for device registration – Client IP address restriction; User group membership based restriction; additional factor along with LDAP authentication – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Cloud

• What’s new in Citrix Workspace user interface (UI) – search shows app path; Workspace UI now loads from cache for faster opening; user authentication check runs in the background for quicker opening – Citrix Docs
• Citrix DaaS: Deliver packaged applications in FlexApp format – FlexApp delivery agent installed on VDA machines – Citrix Docs

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Omnissa Horizon Edge Gateway 2.5.0.0 | 17 MAY 2024 – Photon OS has been upgraded from version 3.0 to 4.0 – Omnissa Docs
• Omnissa downloads – Horizon; Workspace ONE

Microsoft

• Download Microsoft FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 (2.9.8884.27471) – Teams fixes

Other

• Zoom Apps – Buffer Overflow – Zoom Security Bulletin
• Zoom Workplace VDI App for Windows – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity – Zoom Security Bulletin

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Policy data may be lost when a CVAD site is upgraded from an older version to 2311 or 2402 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2403.2 Appliance Upgrade Package – Teams fix

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• What’s new in Citrix WEM Cloud Service – Windows event-based triggers for external tasks; Folder redirection settings – Citrix Docs
• Citrix WEM basic agent: CPU Spike Protection, Fast Logoff and logon duration analysis without the need to connect to the infrastructure service – Citrix Docs

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Omnissa EUC and Broadcom have agreed that EUC can continue to sell the “combined offering” versions of Horizon with VVF for VDI – Omnissa Knowledgebase article
• Omnissa URLs are live – Broadcom Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• Nerdio for AVD Version v6.1.0 Release Notes

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR, Cumulative Update 9

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 1912 LTSR, Cumulative update 9

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Windows Logon Duration Analysis with Citrix WEM Tool Hub – Citrix Community Article

Citrix StoreFront

• If you disable NTLM then Citrix StoreFront is unable to synchronize data between StoreFront servers in a server group – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler WAF Signatures Update v128 – A notable CVE with 10.0 score is CVE-2024-4040 which is a server-side template injection vulnerability in CrushFTP – NetScaler Community Article

NetScaler Console (formerly ADM)

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 14.1 Build 21.60 – aka NetScaler Console
• NetScaler Console build 21 has unlimited Analytics VIPs (no more licenses) and WAF Security Violations on Citrix Gateways that have WAF enabled

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access client 24.4.1.7

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS Monitor: Cost Optimization page – Estimated savings and Autoscale savings report
• Identity with Citrix Cloud – Entra ID single sign-on to VDAs without FAS – on-demand recorded webinar

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Horizon Cloud next-gen now supports Windows 11 23H2; track license consumption in the Horizon Universal Console; control plane enhanced to prevent an outage when the VMware Cloud Services becomes unavailable – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Classic Teams for VDI will reach end of service on October 1, 2024, and end of availability on July 1, 2025 – Microsoft Docs
• FSLogix 2210 hotfix 4 is set to become widely available on Tuesday May 14th, 2024 – Microsoft Blog
• Azure costs for single-session vs multi-session – go-euc

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix 1912 End of Life is December 2024 – Citrix Product Matrix

Citrix App Layering

• You can now install Microsoft Teams 2.x and/or OutlookForWindows UWP applications in their own App Layers (or together) using the Citrix App Layering 24.3.2 patch release – Citrix Docs

Citrix HDX

• New Teams enhancements in Citrix 2402 – Citrix will backport the same to CVAD 2203 LTSR CU4 and CVAD 2203 LTSR CU5 (future) – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Citrix Gateway Service for StoreFront – NetScaler still required for authentication – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2403 for Windows

NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 14.1 Build 21.57
• Recent NetScaler webinars are now available on demand – nFactor, Next-Gen API, SSL Profile Converter
• NetScaler SSL Profile Converter Tool in GUI – NetScaler Community Article

Citrix XenServer

• Citrix PVS Accelerator cache is now built into XenServer 8 by default – XenServer Blog

Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC)

• Omnissa EUC can continue to offer the “combined offering” versions of Horizon with VMware vSphere foundation for VDI (vSphere, vCenter and vSAN) – Rob Beekmans at LinkedIn

Microsoft

• New Teams: An updated VDI timeline will be published soon – Microsoft Docs
• Known Issue: New Teams fails to launch for users logging into non-persistent virtual desktops, or the app is not visible in the Start Menu – Microsoft Docs
• What’s new in Windows Server 2025 – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2402 LTSR
• Download Citrix CDFControl Tool updated April 15
• Download Citrix LTSR Assistant updated for CVAD 2402
• Windows 2016 and SQL 2016 are deprecated (not removed) in CVAD 2402 – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• You can upgrade the OS versions when performing an in-place upgrade without uninstalling the Citrix VDA – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix VDA Cleanup Utility Tool updated for VDA 2402
• Citrix VDA for macOS – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix uberAgent vulnerable to escalation of privileges of the attacker – fixed in Citrix uberAgent 7.1.2 and later – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Enable Citrix Profile Management roaming for the new Microsoft Teams – Citrix Docs
• Profile streaming for folders is now enabled by default in Profile Management 2402 LTSR, greatly reduces Windows login time – Wayne Liu at X.com
• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2402
• WEM agent now only sync the configuration set it belongs to, greatly reduces the size of synced data – Wayne Liu at X.com

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 2402 LTSR

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2404 for HTML5

Citrix Cloud

• Deployment Guide: Citrix VDA for macOS – Citrix Tech Zone

VMware

• New Teams as a published app is supported with Horizon Agent 2312.1 and later – set the “Enable UWP support on RDSH platforms” agent GPO to “Enabled” – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Workaround for the VMware DEM FTA and Default Browser issue – VMware Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• Starting from new Teams version 24060.2623.2790.8046, the TMA per-user install folder is changed to AppData\Local\Microsoft\TeamsMeetingAdd-in (an additional ‘-‘) – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops 3.0.100 – bug fixes

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app LTSR 2402 for Windows
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2402 for Mac
• What’s new in Citrix Global App Configuration service – different settings for StoreFront URLs with a common FQDN; GACS discovers associated store URLs and adds all of them; settings based on user group – Citrix Docs

NetScaler Console

• NetScaler Console new features – at Infrastructure > Instances > NetScaler, clicking on the host name now connects to the NetScaler GUI through the host name; during upgrade job, view configuration discrepancies between the primary node and the secondary – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Use NetScaler native WAF to protect Citrix Gateway – available in upcoming NetScaler 14.1 build 21 – 35-minute recorded webinar

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Connector antivirus exclusions updated with script paths and process names – Citrix Tech Zone

VMware

• Starting 6-May-24, VMware Horizon and Workspace ONE End User Computing (EUC) customers should contact EUC support at https://customerconnect.omnissa.com for any technical needs – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Capturing New Teams as a package in VMware App Volumes 4.x (97141) – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Experience Management for Horizon 2404 – App Performance, Application Crash, Application Hang, and Application Usage (Start/Exit/Foreground) telemetry support for Horizon VDI desktop sessions – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• If you have FSLogix installed, you can override the blocking of http, https and .pdf associations (UCPD.sys) with this simple ruleset and SetUserFTA will work again – Christoph Kolbicz at X.com
• New Teams 24060.2623.2790.8046 or higher bundles TeamsMeetingAddIn.msi version 1.24.05401, which has a fix for successful regkeys creation under HKCU – Microsoft Docs
• Microsoft AVD: Monitor Autoscale operations with Insights – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2403

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix WEM Cloud Service New Features – JSON files action for Windows 11 Start Menu layout customization; Profile Management User Store Creation Tool – Citrix Docs
• Citrix WEM Tool Hub updated in Citrix Cloud

Citrix Workspace app

• Push Citrix Workspace app for Android settings through UEM – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler encrypted DNS over TLS – 30-minute video; new DOT protocol on Port 853 – NetScaler Community Event
• NetScaler advanced analytics on Splunk – gain insights into past events and also forecast future trends and potential outcomes – NetScaler Docs

Citrix XenServer

• XenServer 8 is now supported for production use!
• Upgrade to XenServer 8 only from hosts currently running Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 – XenServer Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS What’s New – enrollment tool using tokens to register VDAs using TLS port 443 (instead of 80) to Manual machine catalogs; edit Catalog to change subnet of new machines – Citrix Docs
• Custom Citrix Cloud workspace URLs are now supported with the Device Posture service – Citrix Docs
• Single Page Application (SPA) that shows how to interact with the Citrix Unified Workspace APIs to build a functional web portal – Github
• Citrix DaaS and Terraform – Automatic Deployment of a Resource Location on Amazon EC2 – Citrix Tech Zone

VMware Horizon

• Horizon Agent 2312 provides CPU usage improvements by regulating boosted frames to achieve increased scalability – VMware Docs
• After applying February patch KB5034763 on non-persistent VDIs, the Microsoft Store apps, such as Office 365, Power BI, and Teams stopped working – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Horizon Drag and Drop Feature does not function if RDSH Group Policy “Do not allow drive redirection” is enabled – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Horizon DEM: The Microsoft Windows Updates for February and March 2024 break the roaming of a user’s default browser and .pdf file type association – Currently, there is no resolution – VMware Knowledgebase article
• Download VMware Horizon App Volumes 4, version 2312.2 – vSAN Replication Fix
• Horizon Cloud next-gen new features March 28, 2024 – Service Release 2403 – direct connections (bypass UAG); vCenter image replication; Horizon 8 image tag pool update – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Now, Teams is included with both new and existing installations of Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows. – Not supported on VDI. Use group policy to block it – Microsoft Docs
• What’s new in the AVD Remote Desktop WebRTC Redirector Service – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA® License System release 3.3.0 – Support for in-place upgrade from DLS User Interface; PostgreSQL and Ubuntu security updates – NVIDIA Docs
• NVIDIA GPU Manager for VMware vCenter 1.4 – addresses vulnerabilities CVE-2023-6931, CVE-2023-6932, CVE-2023-51781, and CVE-2024-0646 – NVIDIA Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer Tool – v3.3.0.1 updated Mar 25 – Added support for Windows 11 build 23H2 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Provisioning

• Image Portability Service Automation for Citrix Provisioning – Reverse Image; Convert to UEFI; Upgrade – Citrix Docs

NetScaler Console (formerly ADM)

• NetScaler Console can automate a NetScaler VPX instance deployment in VMware ESX – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Cloud

• New installation prompt for the Citrix Workspace Web extension – helps to open the apps and desktops in the native Citrix Workspace app automatically without the intervention of Workspace detection screen – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 12.4.0
• New Known Issues in VMware App Volumes 4, version 2312 – VMware Docs
• Data Explorer allows you to explore your data within Workspace ONE Intelligence – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Outlook presence integration with New Teams in Windows Server 2019 – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix Stack Monitoring in Director – Infrastructure Dashboard – Citrix Blog Post
• New Citrix features coming in 2024 – Cost Optimization – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix StoreFront

• Citrix DaaS customers with Storefront will be able to use Citrix Gateway Cloud Service for authentication, enumeration, and HDX proxy – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app for iOS, if you have customized store experience, the auto-discovery of store type is supported only for e-mail addresses and not for store URLs – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 13.1 Build 52.19
• Leveraging NetScaler to Mitigate ConnectWise ScreenConnect Authentication Bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-1709) – NetScaler Community Article
• NetScaler Bot signature update 16 for March 2024 – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Common Misconfigurations that Can Negatively Impact Citrix DaaS Resiliency – Local Host Cache; Service Continuity; StoreFront; STAs; Cloud Connectors; Tags – Citrix Tech Zone

VMware

• Horizon Cloud Power Management – guided tour – VMware Tech Zone
• New Microsoft Teams on Horizon VDI – Known Issues and resolutions – Resolution: Utilize Horizon 2312 or later or utilize Teams 1.0 if available – VMware Knowledgebase article

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix

• Free Citrix and NetScaler training at Pluralsight
• Say hello to the new Citrix community!

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Introducing Citrix uberAgent: Best-in-class EUC monitoring – aligned with the new Citrix Platform License – Citrix Blog Posts
• uberAgent brings new insights to the Citrix platform – YouTube video

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 22.03.6001 for Windows, LTSR 2203.1 Cumulative Update 6
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2402 for Linux

NetScaler ADC

• Upcoming builds of NetScaler VPX can increase the size of /var partition by simply increasing the disk size – NetScaler webinar
• NetScaler MPX/SDX Series 9100/16000, GUI LOM access to configuration settings are read-only – System lockdown is a new security feature that Citrix purposely implemented to prevent unintentional system configuration changes while the system is running – Citrix Knowledgebase article

NetScaler Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access client 24.2.1.15 – Support for TLS 1.3; Support for SNI on pre-authentication requests; Details of the Windows OS as part of the HTTP header (user-agent); Bug fixes

XenServer

• XenCenter now alerts you that Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops license is deprecated and prevents you from upgrading to XenServer 8 until you apply a XenServer Premium Edition license to your hosts – XenServer Docs
• Between now and December 1, 2024, Citrix customers can request to participate in a no-cost promotion for 10,000 XenServer Premium Edition socket licenses – XenServer product info

Microsoft

• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Public Preview for configuring the transfer direction of the clipboard and the data types – Microsoft Docs

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