Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• New Citrix App Protection features – Policy Tampering Detection; Posture Check (only Workspace app with these capabilities is allowed to connect to the VDA) – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer Tool updated Aug 28 – Fixed an issue that unselected items are still executed in the back end.

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2308 for Linux

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler WAF Signatures Update v112 – includes two 9.8 (Critical) CVSS v3 rules, namely CVE-2023-29357 Microsoft SharePoint Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability and CVE-2023-32563 Ivanti Avalanche – NetScaler Community
• NetScaler Connect Webinar August 2023 – Watch on demand – NetScaler Community

NetScaler ADM

• NetScaler ADM Stylebooks support Infoblox DDI as an external IPAM provider – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Analytics for Performance What’s New Aug 2023 – Anomalous Session Disconnects Baseline Insight shows deviation from the baseline value – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Device Posture service is now supported on iOS platforms – the EPA client is built in as part of the Citrix Workspace app for iOS – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Gateway Service Release Notes – configure users to connect to PoPs in a particular region or only through a particular cloud service provider regardless of the users’ location; view performance data related to the Connector-Gateway PoP latency

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 12.3.0 – security fix
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen Release Notes August 2023 – customized client access URL like <custom_subdomain>.vmwhorizon.com; LDAPS for Active Directory domains; Multi-session pool groups rolling maintenance – VMware Docs
• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2306.1
• VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Horizon 2.6.1 is now available – Cameron Fore

Other

• What’s New in NVIDIA vGPU Software R535 16.1

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Profile Management Configuration Checking Tool updated Aug 17

Citrix Provisioning

• New Citrix Provisioning Guidelines – Avoid Modifying the Threads Per Port and Streaming Ports. Do Not Disable Task/TCP/Large Send Offloading – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2308 for HTML5

Citrix XenServer

• https://xenserver.com is live, and along with it the XenServer 8 public preview!
• What’s new in XenServer since Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 – Windows 11 is now supported on XenServer – XenServer Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS: Retrieve a list of orphaned resources in Azure – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Announcing general availability of FSLogix 2210 hotfix 2! – Microsoft Tech Community

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Automated Configuration 3.0.90 for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops updated Aug 14

Citrix App Layering

• Citrix App Layering with FSLogix Cloud Cache: login failures and a frozen logout screen displays logout failures – Exclude the C:\ProgramData\FSLogix\ folder tree from App Layering’s management – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• Indicators of Compromise Scanner for Citrix ADC Zero-Day (CVE-2023-3519) – Mandiant
• Approximately 2000 Citrix NetScalers backdoored in mass-exploitation campaign – Fox-IT
• NetScaler 13.0 filesystem filling up with mastools-xxx files in /var/core/<number>/ – Citrix Discussions

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix DaaS Hosting Connection: To route Azure API requests through Citrix Cloud Connectors, select the Route traffic through Citrix Cloud Connectors check box – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Cloud custom Workspace URL: You can now upload your own TLS certificate – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 12.2.6 – fixes Site Recovery Manager issue
• The VMware Horizon Infrastructure Monitoring feature in Horizon Cloud Service First-Gen is being deprecated. The Infrastructure Tab under Dashboard in the Horizon Universal Console will no longer be available after September 20th, 2023 – VMware Knowledgebase article

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Provisioning

• You must return and reallocate your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Provisioning licenses if you are on Citrix Provisioning 1912 LTSR CU7 and later CUs, 2203 LTSR CU3 and later CUs, 2305 and later – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307.1 for Windows – Teams fix

NetScaler ADC

• Download NetScaler 14.1
• NetScaler 13.1 is not end of life until 15-Sep-27 – Citrix Product Matrix
• How to use the Extended Storefront monitor with NetScaler versions prior to 14.1 – NetScaler Community Article

NetScaler ADM

• NetScaler ADM: File Integrity Monitoring shows NetScaler instances that have any alterations or additions to the original NetScaler build files – NetScaler Docs
• Download NetScaler ADM Release (Feature Phase) 14.1 Build 4.42

Citrix Gateway

• Download NetScaler Gateway Secure Access VPN Client 23.8.1.5
• Download EPA libraries for Windows updated Aug 9

Citrix Cloud

• Several new Citrix Cloud features – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Session Details page from Citrix Analytics for Performance is now integrated in DaaS Monitor – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Search Citrix DaaS Monitor Session Launch Diagnostics starting with the username if you don’t have the transaction id – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Citrix DaaS Monitor probes can be scheduled to run every 15 minutes – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Nerdio v5.2 for AVD release notes

Other

• Critical Vulnerabilities in Zoom VDI Client – Zoom Security Bulletins

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix testing results showed that Windows 10 multi-session instances accommodated 30% fewer users than Windows Server operating systems (Server 2019 or 2022) – Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix Provisioning

• As of Citrix Provisioning v2305, 1912-CU7, and 2203-CU3, the product will always consume a PVS standalone license for each target – get updated license files – Citrix Docs

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307 for Windows

NetScaler ADC

• WAF Signature update version 111 for August 2023 adds 5 rules for Ivanti EndPoint Manager Mobile and Zimbra – NetScaler Docs
• NetScaler Community Articles on the new WAF signatures

Citrix Gateway

• Download EPA Libraries for Mac OS X released Aug 4

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 2212.1
• VMware Horizon Server contains a HTTP request smuggling vulnerability – Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.3 – VMware Security Advisory

Other

• NVIDIA GPU Manager for VMware vCenter Release 1.1 – security update; new dark theme; languages – NVIDIA Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix License Server for Windows – Version 11.17.2.0 Build 44000 – OpenSSL version update

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307 for Mac

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler WAF Signature version 110 for July 2023 adds almost 40 rules – NetScaler Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Python-based vulnerability scanner for detecting the CVE-2023-3519 vulnerability in Citrix Gateways – Github

VMware

• VMware Horizon Cloud next-gen: Help Desk is now available for cloud-connected Horizon 8 Edges – VMware Docs
• Download VMware Horizon 2111.2 ESB

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2022 Update (22H2) – v3.0

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops updated July 21 – Added support for exporting Admin Folders

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent 2305.1 for User launch failures seen when VDA brought up on-demand

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• New in Citrix WEM 2307: Microsoft Edge browser support for WEM Transformer – Citrix Docs

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 2203 LTSR, Cumulative update 3

NetScaler ADC

• Exploitation of Citrix Zero-Day by Possible Espionage Actors (CVE-2023-3519) – Mandiant
• Threat Actors Exploiting Citrix NetScaler CVE-2023-3519 to Implant Webshells – shell commands to check for signs of compromise – CISA
• NetScaler ADC and Citrix Gateway Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability with CVSS score 9.8 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix ADC NetScaler 13.1 and 13.0 fixed firmware – Regular release 12.1 is end of life so no new firmware.

NetScaler ADM

• Download NetScaler Citrix ADM Release 13.1 Build 49.13

Citrix Cloud

• New in Citrix DaaS: persistent multi-session machines – Citrix Docs
• Get a list of orphaned Azure resources that are created by MCS but are no longer used by MCS – Citrix Docs
• New in Citrix Session Recording Service: push Session Recording servers, databases, storage, and load balancer to Azure; recommends VM and storage configurations; predicts costs – Citrix Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 22.03.4000 for Windows, LTSR 2203.1 Cumulative Update 4

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler WAF Signature version 109 for July 2023 has more rules for Progress MOVEit Transfer – NetScaler Docs

NetScaler ADM

• NetScaler WAF Web App Scanner in NetScaler ADM – 30-minute webinar

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access VPN client 23.7.1.1 updated July 14
• Citrix Secure Access (VPN) client for Windows Local Privilege escalation vulnerability – addressed in version 23.5.1.3 and later releases – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Image Portability Service now supports VMware as a target platform, enabling deployment of PVS or MCS master images into VMware from a different on-prem or cloud environment – Citrix Cloud Updates
• Citrix DaaS: Support for deleting stale Azure AD devices – If you do not delete the Azure stale AD devices, then the corresponding non-persistent VM stays in the initializing state until you manually remove it from the Azure AD portal – Citrix Docs
• Device Posture: Contextual access to Citrix DaaS and Citrix Secure Private Access (SPA) resources by using the CrowdStrike Zero Trust Assessment (ZTA) score of an end device  – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• Windows 365: there are significant differences in image quality between the HTML5 web client and the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client – sharpness of text – G0-EUC
• Azure Active Directory is becoming Microsoft Entra ID – Microsoft Tech Community

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2307 for Linux

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler updated the max number of ICA Proxy/SSL VPN concurrent users for many hardware models – NetScaler Data sheet

Citrix XenServer

• XenServer docs moved to docs.xenserver.com
• Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 – Base Installation ISO – updated June 2023 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

VMware

• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2306
• Download VMware Horizon 8 2306
• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 2306 – Support for Windows ARM64 bit devices
• Integrate VMware Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen with Workspace ONE HUB – VMware Docs
• Known Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub App Catalog Gaps with using Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen – VMware Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise/Office LTSC 2021/Office 2019/Office 2016 updated July 3
• Nerdio v5.1 for AVD release notes

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU 16 is Long-Term support

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix VDA Cleanup Utility updated June 2023

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 2306 upgrade package updated June 30

Citrix HDX

• Download Citrix Connection Quality Indicator updated June 2023 – Windows 11/2022 support

Citrix Provisioning

• PVS Catalogs Made Easy with Citrix DaaS MCS Provisioning – Citrix Blog Post
• Cold Starting and/or Hydrating Your Applications To Improve Their Startup Times – Jeremy Saunders

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2305.1 for Windows

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler Connect recorded webinar June 2023
• In NetScaler 13.1 Build 42.47 or higher, cache memLimit must be >= N * 4MB (N is the number of NSPPEs) – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• It is not supported to roam the OneDrive registry hive as part of a non-persistent VDI environment. Do not roam HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive\ – Microsoft Docs

Other

• Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – June 2023 – code execution, information disclosure, and denial of service

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