Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Up to 2000 VDAs for each Citrix Machine Catalog – Citrix KB article
• Citrix GPMC Console 3.0.0 crashing in Win 2K12R2 when editing polices – install Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Download Citrix Health Assistant v1.3.0.17 – released July 15, 2017 – Citrix KB article
• Cropped maximized published application on Windows 2016 VDA? There’s a private fix – Citrix Discussions
• Google Chrome on Citrix deep-dive – Dennis Span

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Citrix App Layering 4.3 is now available at Citrix Downloads
• Citrix App Layering (Unidesk) 4.3 is available at Citrix Cloud
• New lab feature in Citrix App Layering 4.3: Export Layers
• Experimental Gold Tools (Scripts only) for Citrix App Layering 4.x – Citrix Optimizer, removed 2.x/3.x – unidesk.com

Director/Monitoring

• In Citrix Director 7.13/7.14: Trends > Failures > Connection – “Unexpected error” – private fix – Citrix KB article

StoreFront

• Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS) High Availability and Scalability – describes hashing algorithm for load balancing – Citrix KB article

NetScaler

• NetScaler VPX (12.0, 11.1, 11.0) Loses Network Connectivity Intermittently on VMware ESXi – VMXNET3, or upcoming builds – Citrix KB article
• Citrix NetScaler in Microsoft Azure – recorded CUGC webinar
• NetScaler SDX/SVM 11.1-53.11 HDD full or increasing due to large file logs; halting VPX instances – fixed in 53.13 – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Citrix XenMobile announcements for SHA1 certs, SSLv3, iOS11/Android O support & upcoming deprecations – Citrix KB article, source = George Spiers on Twitter

ShareFile

• Download ShareFile StorageZones Controller 5.0.1

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• How Do I for Windows Application Delivery – Links to Citrix KB articles
• Download Citrix Secure Gateway 3.3.5 for Windows – Update SGE3.3.5 – English – Citrix KB article

VDA

• New version of Citrix Optimizer – Beta (v1.0.0.5) – Citrix KB article
• In VDA 7.14, Enable-VdaSSL.ps1 script, CertificateThumbPrint is no longer optional due to cert from In-Product CA – Citrix Docs

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Windows / Office 2016 KMS not activating in Citrix App Layering images – Citrix KB article
• Citrix App Layering w/ PVS & WEM, Netlogon dependencies do not merge. See http://www.jgspiers.com/citrix-workspace-environment-manager/Install-WEM-Agent for w/around.To be fixed in future release – George Spiers on Twitter

Provisioning Services

• We now have the PVS vDisk replicator (version 2) PS tool available on GitHub. Check it out. – John McBride on Twitter
• Citrix PvS 7.14 SOAP Service crashes if Auditing is enabled? – Citrix Discussions

NetScaler

• NetScaler Master Class July 2017 – YouTube
• Exchange 2016 load balancing on NetScaler with pre-authentication and SSON – CLI commands – Simon Lauger

NetScaler MAS

• Installing NetScaler MA Service Agent on AWS and Azure – Citrix Docs

XenMobile

• How to Enable Okta as IDP for Enrollment with XenMobile – OpenID Connect – Citrix KB article

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Security TechTalk: Managing identity and access – 1 hour recorded webinar – FAS, Windows Hello, Intune/NetScaler, Unified Gateway, WorkSpace Service

VDA

• Citrix Desktop Helper Service – delay shutdown after logoff, force gpupdate after boot, delay Citrix service start – Citrix Blog Post
• Remove Ghost devices natively with Powershell – Trentent Tye

MCS

• How to add new AWS region to Citrix XenDesktop MCS – and update AWS defaults – Citrix KB article

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Citrix App Layering 4 documentation is now at Citrix Docs
• Citrix App Layering Best Practices – Citrix KB article

WEM/Profile Management

• Citrix WEM 4.3 Norskale Infrastructure Service crashing? There’s a private fix
• How to prevent Citrix WEM from creating shortcut if app isn’t installed – Citrix Discussions
• To configure Folder Redirection in Citrix WEM, go to Microsoft USV Settings – Citrix Discussions

Provisioning Services

• Preventing Possible PVS Pain Points – 1-hour recorded webinar from two CTPs – scripted builds/configs, pester testing – CUGC
• In-place upgrade of Citrix PvS Device tools, only 50% success. Workarounds for other 50% – Trentent Tye

Receiver

• Citrix Windows 10 Issue 8: black lock screen when Receiver is installed – Microsoft kb4022723 hotfix – Citrix KB article

NetScaler

• NetScaler Essentials, ideal for XA/XD admins wanting to learn Netscaler! – Twitter
• NetScaler SDX 8900 series uses Crypto Units instead of SSL Chips – Citrix Docs
• Download NetScaler Release 11.0 Build 70.112 for the new 59xx & 89xx Platforms Only
• How to properly enable HTTP/2 on NetScaler – Citrix KB article
• Deploy NetScaler CPX Proxy on Google Compute Engine – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix SCOM Management Pack for NetScaler (2017_06_20)

NetScaler MAS

• NetScaler MAS Cloud Service is now available
• NetScaler Management and Analytics Cloud Service documentation – Citrix Docs

NetScaler Gateway

• NetScaler MAC VPN plugin does not support Split DNS – remote only – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Download Updated XenMobile MDX files for Secure Mail & Secure Web for iOS and Android 10.6.5 Released 29 June 2017
• What’s new in XenMobile Cloud Service 10.6.1 – iBooks, register enterprise for Android for Work, new REST APIs – Citrix Docs
• Citrix XenMobile Secure Forms Mobile App is EOL December 31, 2017 – use ShareFile Workflows for XenMobile instead – Citrix Docs

ShareFile

• Download ShareFile Drive Mapper 3.7.110.0 – Favorites folder

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Master Class 101 – Part 1 – 2 hour recorded webinar – YouTube
• How to create custom checks and alerts with Citrix Smart Check – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware Airwatch Windows 10 Unified Endpoint Management Reviewer’s Guide – 74-page guide

Other

• What’s new in ControlUp v7 – VMware hypervisor storage monitoring, VM drives, AWS EC2 (cost metrics, metadata), display IE browser URL, Top Insights dashboard, NetScaler monitor – recorded webinar – CUGC

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Reminder: Citrix XenApp 6.5 is End of Life on 30-Jun-2018, 1 year from now – End of Maintenance on 31-Dec-2017
• Download XenApp 7.6 LTSR Cumulative Update 4 – All Editions
• Several new Premium Citrix articles with TechEdge content – Citrix KB article
• In 7.13 and newer, if hypervisor objects renamed, run Update-HypHypervisorConnection to inform XenDesktop – Citrix KB article
• Scripts to fix Speech_OneCore Citrix Policy issue in XenDesktop 7.14 – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer – Beta (v1.0.0.4)

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.2.1 OS Machine Tools – expand Tools – Reissued after removing some files reported as malware false positives
• The only Citrix Layer you can run the scripts to remove windows 10 apps is the OS layer – Unidesk Forums
• Unidesk Recipe for Office 2016: Using Shared Computer Activation From Office 365 – Citrix KB article
• Citrix App Layering Optimization Guide for App Layering 4.x – Unidesk Forums

Director/Monitoring

• Citrix Director unattended installation with PowerShell – Dennis Span

WEM/Profile Management

• High memory usage in Citrix UPM 5.7 with registry active write back enabled – upgrade to 5.8 – Citrix KB article

Provisioning Services

• Download Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6.5

Receiver

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.8 for Windows
• Download Citrix Receiver 12.6 for Mac
• What’s New in Citrix Receiver for Windows 4.8 – Auto-update – Citrix Docs
• Download Receiver 4.4.5000 for Windows LTSR – Cumulative Update 5

NetScaler

• NetScaler 12 VPX does not support vSphere 5.5 – Citrix Docs
• NetScaler 11.1 build 54 release notes

NetScaler Gateway

• NetScaler 11.1 build 54 supports delegating authentication to StoreFront – Twitter

XenMobile

• Download XenMobile Server 10.6.0.22
• XenMobile Scalability doc updated for 75,000 devices in a 7-node cluster – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.2.0 Standard

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Steps to perform after vCenter certificate change – Set-Item “XDHyp:\Connections\…” -sslthumbprint – Citrix KB article
• Group Policy Failure After Upgrading to XenApp and XenDesktop 7.14 – remove UPM – Software\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Windows 10: Citrix doesn’t support CB (Current Branch). We only support CBB and LTSB – Citrix KB article
• “Connection Interrupted” error message displayed while logging off ICA session – 7.14 registry key, TDI drivers – Citrix KB article
• “wfapi.dll is missing” Error message might appear while launching certain applications – fixed in 7.14 – Citrix KB article

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Windows / Office is not activating on Citrix App Layering images – Run the tool “kmssetup.cmd” – Citrix KB article

Director/Monitoring

• Citrix Director Version Matrix – which feature in which XenDesktop Edition – Citrix KB article
• Citrix Session Recording:Features by Version – Citrix KB article

Provisioning Services

• Download Citrix Provisioning Services 7.14
• What’s new in Provisioning Services 7.14 – Nutanix AHV support, Microsoft Device Guard – Citrix Docs

Receiver

• If Receiver was installed by users in their profiles, it is not supported to system-wide upgrade as administrator – Citrix KB article
• Driving the Citrix Receiver Self-Service Plug-in via Batch Files – Citrix KB article

NetScaler

• Download NetScaler Release 11.1 Build 54.14

XenMobile

• Download XenMobile 10.6 versions of Secure Mail, Secure Web, MDX Toolkit, MDX files for public store distribution
• Mobility Master Class: Citrix Synergy XenMobile Updates and Advanced Authentication – YouTube
• Per App VPN with XenMobile 10.6 and Citrix VPN Client for Android (Non-AfW) – Citrix KB article
• XenMobile One Time Enrollment Invitation for MacOS – disable mac.otae.enabled – Citrix KB article
• VPP & Deploying XenMobile Secure Apps: Current Limitations and Workarounds – two app icons – MDX and VPP – Citrix KB article

VMware

• Download VMware vCenter Server 6.5.0e
• Download VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.6

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Download XenApp 7.14.1 / XenDesktop 7.14.1
• Upgrading to Citrix 7.14.1 might require you to fix the Trust database connection – Citrix Docs
• Issues while installing or upgrading XenApp / XenDesktop 7.14 – Citrix KB article

WEM/Profile Management

• Profile pruning with XenDesktop UPM 5.8 seems not to honour subordinate inclusions within excluded folders when LogonExclusionCheck=1/2 – René Bigler on Twitter

Provisioning Services

• Citrix Provisioning Services Feature Deprecation – cache on hard disk – Citrix Docs

App Layering / Unidesk

• Unidesk App Layer: can join the domain while packaging, but must remove it from domain before finalization – Citrix KB article
• Citrix App Layering does not yet support vSphere Datacenters inside of Folders – Citrix KB article

Receiver

• Citrix Receiver for iOS 7.2.2 and later introduce a new, stricter, validation policy for server certificates – Citrix Docs

NetScaler

• NetScaler Master Class June 2017 – YouTube
• In NetScaler 11.1 build 53, wildcard geo locations stopped working – CLI command reverts old behavior – Stan Demburg

NetScaler MAS

• NetScaler MAS Troubleshooting Guide – lots of links – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• XML External Entity (XXE) Processing Vulnerability in Citrix XenMobile Server 10.x and 9.x – fixed in 10.5 RP3 – Citrix KB article
• On-premises XenMobile interaction with Active Directory – e.g. group sync job runs every 5 hours – Citrix Docs
• How to Insert Inline Images into Message Using Citrix Secure Mail 10.5.20 for iOS – Citrix KB article

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client 4.5 for Windows
• Download VMware OS Optimization Tool version b1092 released June 05, 2017
• Roam the Windows 10 Start Menu 100%! with VMware User Environment Manager – Start Menu Layout is now in the registry – VMware KB Article

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

Citrix

• Updated Citrix Visio stencils! – This round of updates include NetScaler MAS, SD-WAN, Gateway, & XenMobile Cloud – Daniel Feller

XenApp/XenDesktop

• XenApp/XenDesktop 7.14 pulled from downloads – in-place upgrade issues
• No. 1 reason for support calls: VDA registrations in XenApp and XenDesktop – Citrix Docs

Director/Monitoring

• After upgrade to @XenDesktop 7.14 Director gives a “Configuration Service” warning. Here is the script to mitigate – Citrix Discussions

WEM/Profile Management

• Start Menu Becomes Unresponsive After Using Profile Roaming Among Multiple Windows 10 RS1/ Server 2016 Clients – Citrix KB article
• On Windows 10 1703, UPM sets !CTX_OSNAME! to Win10RS2. This is different than Windows 10 1607 – Twitter

NetScaler MAS

• How to use NetScaler MAS to upload files (e.g. certificate) to an instance – Citrix Docs

XenMobile

• Download XenMobile Server 10.5.0 Rolling Patch 3 – NetScaler Connector TLSv1 fix – Citrix KB article

XenServer

• How to Create Scheduled Snapshots in XenServer 7.2 – Citrix KB article

Citrix Cloud

• NetScaler Web App Security Service is a cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) service – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• How to create mandatory profiles in Windows 10 Creators Update (1703) – James Rankin

Other

• Comprehensive NVIDIA vGPU Deployment Guide updated for M60 and XenDesktop 7.12

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

Citrix

• Many Citrix Synergy sessions (keynotes, breakouts) are available on demand

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Download XenApp 7.14 / XenDesktop 7.14, All Editions
• What’s new in XenApp and XenDesktop 7.14 – Citrix Docs
• How to Configure Multiple License Types within a Single XenApp and XenDesktop 7.14 Site – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Office 2016 VL activation issues on Citrix? Add sppsvc to UviProcessExcludes – Citrix Discussions
• Microsoft OneNote printer and XPS Document Writer printer are no longer auto-created in 7.14 – Citrix KB article

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Don’t use Citrix App Layering (Unidesk) with Windows 10 1703 – Citrix Discussions
• Unidesk 4 Layer Priority Utility — Experimental – updated 5-23-2017 – Unidesk forums

Director/Monitoring

• How to use Director 7.14 to monitor storage performance – Citrix KB article
• How to use Director 7.14 to monitor NVIDIA GPU usage – Citrix KB article
• How to use Citrix Director 7.14 to troubleshoot application launch errors – Citrix KB article
• What’s new in Citrix SCOM Management Pack 3.12 for XenApp and XenDesktop – better performance – Citrix docs

WEM/Profile Management

• What’s New in Citrix Profile Management 5.8 – Citrix Docs
• What’s new in Citrix Workspace Environment Management 4.3 – Citrix Docs

StoreFront

• 415-line PowerShell script simulates Domain Passthrough authentication to StoreFront – Trentent Tye

Receiver

• Citrix Receiver 1.0 for Universal Windows Platform (Windows Store) Documentation – Citrix Docs

XenApp 6.5

• Hotfix XA650R07W2K8R2X64011 – For Citrix XenApp 6.5 Rollup Pack 7 – cpsvc (printing) hotfix – Citrix KB article

NetScaler

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release 12.0 Build 41.22 (replaces 41.16) – XenMobile fix
• Download NetScaler SDX Bundle 11.1-53.11/53.13 – SDX XenServer runs out of disk space
• How to Configure Pre-Authentication EPA Scan as a Factor in nFactor Authentication – Citrix KB article
• NetScaler nFactor advanced policies no longer bound after reboot – fixed in 11.1 build 53 – Citrix Discussions
• Random Session Disconnection with RST Code 9952 when Using AES-GCM Ciphers on NetScaler 11.1 – fixed in build 53 – Citrix KB article
• NetScaler high management CPU when compressing log files in /var/log – fixed in 11.1 build 53, and 10.5 build 66 – Citrix KB article
• Customize NetScaler nFactor Logon Form to Show or Hide Fields Based on Drop-Down Selection – Citrix KB article

NetScaler Gateway

• How to Perform Gateway Authorization Using Advanced Policy Expressions in NetScaler 12 – Citrix KB article
• How to Configure Radius Accounting for NetScaler Gateway ICA Start/Stop – Citrix KB article
• New NetScaler Deployment Guides! – Oracle and Unified Gateway focused – CUGC

XenServer

• Download Citrix XenServer 7.2
• XenServer 7.2 contains a technical preview of AMD’s multi-user GPU technology, MxGPU – Citrix KB article

Citrix Cloud

• What’s new in Citrix Smart Check – custom checks, alerts, reports – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Identity Manager 2.9.1

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

 

Citrix

• Citrix Technology Advocate (CTA) applications for 2017-2018 now open – Citrix Blog Post

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Citrix LTSR Assistant updated – files dated May 9 – Citrix KB article
• Download Citrix Supportability Pack 1.4 – 54 tools to help diagnose and troubleshoot – Citrix KB article

App Layering / Unidesk

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.2 from Citrix Downloads

HDX

• Citrix RTOP Capability Checker: checks support for Hardware Acceleration of H.264 Video, and camera for UVC 1.1 or UVC – Citrix KB article

Provisioning Services

• Citrix Provisioning Server unattended installation – Install script is 247 lines, PvS configuration script is 955 lines – Dennis Span

StoreFront

• Download Receiver 2.4 for HTML5

NetScaler

• Popular articles for configuration and troubleshooting authentication through NetScaler – more links – Citrix KB article
• NetScaler Validated Reference Designs – Azure, AWS, SDX Clustering, Partitions
• Download NetScaler 10.5 Build 66.6
• How to decrypt a NetScaler trace – Mark Brilman

NetScaler Gateway

• How to Collect Client VPN Logs for NetScaler Gateway – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• What’s New in XenMobile Service 10.5.4 – derived credentials (smart card), Windows Information Protection, more… – Citrix Docs
• XenMobile Device limit per user in Enrollment profiles not being enforced MAM-only – number.of.mam.devices.per.user – Citrix KB article

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 10.1.7 – vmxnet3 RSS fix
• Download VMware OS Optimization Tool updated May 16, 2017
• Download VMware Horizon Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 3.0
• Release Notes for VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.0 – Hyper-V support for VMware Tunnel, Import .pfx
• Download VMware User Environment Manager 9.2.0

Microsoft

• Deployment guide for Windows Defender Antivirus in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment – Microsoft Docs

Other

• Install, Configure and Test FSLogix Office 365 Container on XenApp – OST, Outlook Search, OneDrive – David Wilkinson

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week. For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

 

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

XenApp/XenDesktop VDA

• Implement Internet Explorer Tracking Protection to reduce CPU on Citrix – Julian Mooren
  • James Rankin video on Tracking Protection
  • LoginVSI also details Tracking Protection for Firefox and Ad Blocker for Chrome
• Registry workaround for icons flickering on Windows 2016 published desktop when desktop is redirected – Citrix Discussions
• By default, VDA detects Controller outage every 5 minutes – adjustable through HeartbeatPeriodMs registry value – Citrix KB article
• Tablacus Explorer is an awesome replacement for explorer.exe as a XenApp published Application! – Marco Hofmann

StoreFront

• How to enable/disable Workspace Control based on user’s AD group membership – Trentent Tye

Receiver

• Enable Receiver 4.7 to open Published Content UNC paths – Allow/Prevent user to publish unsafe content – David Prows at CUGC

NetScaler

• Validated Reference Design – NetScaler and Microsoft Azure – 16-page guide

NetScaler MAS

• FAQ: Citrix Command Center – End Of Life – MAS is the replacement – Citrix KB article
• FAQ: NetScaler Insight Center – End Of Life – MAS is the replacement – Citrix KB article
• How to Set New Event Actions on NetScaler MAS 12 – Run Command Action, and Execute Job Action – Citrix KB article

NetScaler Gateway

• NetScaler Theme and Customization Troubleshooting – /var/vpn/vpn/ overwrites /netscaler/ns_gui/ – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Unable to Sync XenMobile Secure Mail (STA Method) when using NetScaler Gateway 12.0 – known issue – Citrix KB article

ShareFile

• Download ShareFile Drive Mapper 3.7.110.0 released May 12, 2017