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

• 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

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

• What Data is Smart Check Collecting? And Smart Check vs Citrix Insight Services – Citrix Blog Post
• Verify and Set vCenter role permissions for XenDesktop\PVS service accounts – Ryan Butler

Director/Monitoring

• Reduce Citrix Director Interactive Session Time to 3 seconds – George Spiers

WEM/Profile Management

• Citrix WEM on PvS? Run AgentCacheUtility.exe -refreshcache at target device boot – Julian Mooren

Provisioning Services

• Lab it Up! With Citrix Unidesk and PVS – 2:37 recorded webinar – PVS content starts around 1:06

NetScaler

• NetScaler Master Class May 2017 – AppFirewall – YouTube
• EPA added as an action that can be used with nFactor in Citrix NetScaler 12 – Source = George Spiers
• Validated Reference Design – NetScaler and Microsoft Azure – 16 page PDF
• How to configure NetScaler in AWS as a NAT Gateway – 12 minute YouTube video

NetScaler Gateway

• AD FS 4.0, Server 2016, MFA, FAS, Single FQDN, & SSO with Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway – CTP Jason Samuel

XenMobile

• Download XenMobile Server 10.5.0 Rolling Patch 2 – Citrix KB article
• Download MDX files for ShareFile 5.3.1 and QuickEdit 6.8.1 for Android Released 04 May 2017
• How to use Installed Apps Widget in XenMobile dashboard – Citrix KB article

ShareFile

• Download ShareFile StorageZones Controller 5.0

Microsoft

• Want to customize the WinX menu for different sets of users on the same devices? – James Rankin

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

• Guidelines for adding KEYWORDS to Citrix Published App description – spaces, case insensitive, etc. – Citrix KB article

Director/Monitoring

• Citrix Feature Matrix – Citrix Director Platinum Edition – lists the Director features that require Platinum Licensing
• Download Citrix agent for Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)

WEM/Profile Management

• New Workspace Environment Management (WEM) forum at Citrix Discussions

NetScaler

• Download NetScaler Release 12.0 Build 41.16
• Release Notes for Build 41.16 of NetScaler 12.0 – what’s new
• How to Configure GSLB Active-Passive Topology on NetScaler Using the New GSLB wizard – Citrix KB article
• Secure Web Gateway with Citrix NetScaler – CTP Marius Sandbu
• How to add EULA functionality to NetScaler nFactor Login Schema – CustomCredentialHandler JavaScript function – Citrix KB article
• In NetScaler 11.1 build 51 and later, logging for Kerberos has moved to ns.log instead of nskrb.debug – Citrix KB article

NetScaler MAS

• Download NetScaler MAS Release 12.0 Build 41.16
• List of NetScaler MAS features that are free, or require licenses for more than 30 vServers – Citrix Docs

NetScaler Gateway

• How to Configure NetScaler Gateway Enabled PCoIP Proxy Support for VMware – Citrix KB article
• Gateway nFactor Authentication, from NetScaler 11.1 build 52, Login Schema is adjusted for Receiver – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Download Secure Mail MDX files for App Store & Google Play Released 26 Apr 2017
• What’s new in XenMobile Service 10.5.3 – Windows 10 1703 support, Win10 device properties, push iOS updates
• For XenMobile Apps sending traffic through NetScaler, allow SNIP to reach Launch Darkly servers – Citrix KB article

ShareFile

• Citrix StorageZones Controller 5.0 – Migrate ShareFile Data from one on-prem zone to another – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware OS Optimization Tool b1090 failing antivirus scans? Download version b1090b instead.
• PCoIP Zero Clients: “View Connection Server communication error.” alert with View Connection Server 6.2.4 – Teradici Communities

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

• Script that creates a direct desktop icon for each of your XenApp servers – Citrix Blog Post
• XenApp and XenDesktop 7.11+: Latency and SQL Blocking Query Improvements – Citrix Docs
• Zone Preference Internals – Citrix Blog Post
• Download Hotfix GPCSExt170W2K8R2X64009 – For Citrix Group Policy Client side Extension in XenApp 6.5 – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Download Citrix Health Assistant v1.2.0.34 for VDA troubleshooting – updated April 18 – new UI – Citrix KB article
• Base Image Script Framework (BIS-F) – Version 6.0.1 – seal your Base Image for MCS, PvS, etc.

App Layering

• HA/DR recommendations for Elastic Layers file share – Citrix Discussions
• Citrix App Layering script to convert published PvS VHD image to VHDX, or add image as a version – Unidesk.com
• VDA in Platform Layer is missing local groups – Citrix Discussions
• Elastic Layers reduces disk free space to 20 GB – Unidesk.com
• Setkmsversion.exe instead of unattend.exe – Unidesk.com

Provisioning Services

• Accurately determining the PvS RAM cache size when using RAM cache with overflow to disk – Citrix Docs

Receiver

• Receiver 4.7 issues on Windows 10 Creators Update? high DPI only? – small mouse – Citrix Discussions

NetScaler

• Performance Issues with NetScaler MPX SSL – custom TCP Profile – Citrix KB article
• NetScaler policy extension (Lua) to filter a list – CTP Simon Gottschlag
• Citrix NetScaler Automation – AWS Lambda functions and Terraform configs to manage VPX instances in AWS – Github from Citrix Chiradeep Vittal

NetScaler MAS

• How to Add a Static Route on Netscaler MAS – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Mobility Master Class: What’s new with Citrix XenMobile Service and Microsoft – YouTube video
• Download Updated MDX files for QuickEdit and Sharefile
• How Apple VPP synchronization works for Citrix XenMobile – Citrix KB article
• Enable XenMobile Enrollment of iOS and Android Devices with Azure AD as Identify Provider – Citrix KB article
• XenMobile Rest API – example Node.JS script to search a device by serial number and then lock that device – Citrix KB article

VMware

• VMware OS Optimization Tool updated again – version b1090 – April 20
• Download VMware vCenter Server 6.5.0d – vSAN 6.6
• Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5.0d – vSAN 6.6

Microsoft

• Windows 10 1703 comes with 31 UWP apps. Daniel Feller lists which ones should be removed
• Recording of webinar by James Rankin: Windows 10 on XenDesktop – Universal Apps Platform & FTAs – 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

• Windows 10 Creators Update (v1703) – Citrix Known Issues – four issues fixed from 1607, printing remains – Citrix KB article
• Citrix added support for vSphere 6 Update 3 – Citrix KB article
• Script to find XenDesktop desktops not used in last 30 days, and notify users – CTP Kees Baggerman
• Citrix CDFControl updated – files dated April 1 – Citrix KB article

HDX

• Citrix Connection Quality Indicator updated – files dated March 31 – customize notifications – Citrix KB article

WEM/Profile Management

• Private fix for Citrix roaming of File Type Associations – Citrix Discussions

Provisioning Services

• Citrix PvS vDisk Replicator Tool – Citrix Blog Post

Receiver

• Generic Client Input Method Editors (IME) in Citrix Receiver 4.7 uses SHIFT + F4 hotkey – Citrix KB article
• Receiver for Mac 12.5: Connections may fail if Gateway config includes a cross-signed intermediate certificate – Citrix Docs
• In Citrix Receiver for Mac 12.0 and later, only secure (HTTPS) stores are allowed by default – see KB article for override

NetScaler

• Download NetScaler Release 11.1 Build 53.11
• NetScaler policy extension (Lua) to filter a list – CTP Simon Gottschlag
• NetScaler MPX/SDX 11515 through 11542 End-of-sale October 2017 – Citrix Product Matrix

NetScaler MAS

• Download NetScaler MAS Release 11.1 Build 53.11

NetScaler Gateway

• Heap Overflow Vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler Gateway Could Result in Arbitrary Code Execution – Citrix KB article
• How to setup NetScaler Gateway SSL VPN in Azure as Point-to-Site VPN replacement, using multiple network interfaces – Christiaan Brinkhoff

XenMobile

• Curated resources that address common issues with XenMobile deployments – auth, security, wrapping, etc. – Citrix KB article
• XenMobile On-Premise to Cloud Transition – long Premium KB Article

ShareFile

• Citrix Desktop Master Class – XenDesktop with ShareFile – April 2017 – 2 hr video
• ShareFile for Windows 10 UWP – KB article with more info

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix XenApp Essentials Service Deployment Guide – 30-page PDF – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware App Volumes 2.12.1
• Download VMware vCenter Server 6.5 c
• Download VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U3b

Microsoft

• Windows 10, version 1703 and version 1607 both use the .V6 profile version – TechNet
• Download ADMX for Windows 10 Creator Updates

Other

• ControlUp – Realtime Troubleshooting Example – 5 minute video – Trentent Tye
• Goliath Technologies introduces a VMware Logon Simulator, a quick introduction – Rob Beekmans