Category: EUC Weekly Digest

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• Citrix App Layering 2211: detailed info on the new Azure connector – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• QuickPost – Citrix UPM VHD compaction feature – CTP James Rankin

Citrix StoreFront

• What’s new in Citrix Workspace app 2303 for HTML5 – multiple audio devices; client drive mapping; Teams background blurring
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2303 for HTML5
• Download Citrix Workspace app for Chrome and HTML5 Configuration Utility updated March 30

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2303 for Windows
• Download Citrix Workspace app 22.03.3000 for Windows, LTSR 2203.1 Cumulative Update 3
• Many new features in Citrix Workspace app 2304 for Mac – Citrix Docs

NetScaler ADC

• docs.netscaler.com – no “Citrix”
• NetScaler Connect Monthly Webinar March 2023 – Observability; GSLB improvements
• NetScaler WAF Signature version 104 adds 24 rules – NetScaler Docs
• Deployment Guide: Citrix Secure Private Access On-Premises – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Don’t upgrade from VMware Horizon 7.13.3 to Horizon 2212.  Upgrade to a version that is released after the Horizon 7.13.3 release date, such as Horizon 2303 – VMware Docs
• Download Windows OS Optimization Tool 1.2 for VMware Horizon
• Download VMware Horizon 2303 – vSphere 7 minimum required
• Horizon Cloud Control Plane Services Next-gen are not supported for Horizon 8 on Azure VMware Solution at this time – VMware Knowledgebase article

Microsoft

• Nerdio Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Modeler – detailed overview of compute costs, disk costs, storage costs, network data egress costs, and even Nerdio licenses on a per-user basis – Nerdio Blog

Other

• Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – March 2023 – 7.8 base score

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2303

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Connection Quality Indicator updated March 22 – Added an option so that individual session users can now turn on/off notifications

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix UPM 2303 App Access Control – CTP James Rankin
  • Citrix’s PowerShell script for configuring App Hiding rules can be found in the separately downloaded Profile Management 2303 but not on the CVAD 2303 ISO
• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2303

Citrix Provisioning

• Join Citrix Provisioning 2303 to Citrix Cloud for database encryption – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Provisioning 2303.1

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2301.1 for Mac
• What’s new in Citrix Workspace app 2303 for Windows – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2303 for Linux

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix NetScaler – OTP Encryption Tool – CTP Julian Jakob
• Download EPA Libraries for Windows updated Mar 21

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.13.3

Microsoft

• Nerdio new version v4.8

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR, Cumulative Update 7

VMware

• Announcing end of support for PCoIP in VMware Horizon – removed after 2025; not supported today in Horizon Cloud next-gen – VMware Blog Post
• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 2303

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix ADM Cloud Service March 02, 2023 – Improvements to Web Insight; Deletion of inactive Citrix ADM Express accounts; schedule agent upgrades; View the versions of Citrix WAF and bot signatures; and more – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download EPA Libraries for Windows (updated March 3) and Mac (updated March 7)

Citrix Cloud

• New Citrix strategy and product innovations – cloud-only features (autoscale, export/import configs) coming to on-prem; StoreFront updates – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• Self-Service Migration of First-Generation Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Deployments to Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen – VMware Docs
• Download VMware Tools 12.2.0
• Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool – Instant Clone image handling for multiple pods from a single interface – RETOUW.NL
• Evaluation Guide for VMware App Volumes 4 – VMware Tech Zone

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Licensing: To remain compliant, the number of days since the last successful upload must not be greater than 90 days – Citrix Docs

Citrix FAS

• Citrix FAS: Information about Microsoft KB KB5014754: Certificate-based authentication changes on domain controllers – to prevent authentication failures, make sure you have the patch installed on both the Domain Controllers and all the issuing CA(s) – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix NetScaler

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 13.1 Build 42.47

Citrix ADM

• What’s new in Citrix ADM Cloud Service March 02, 2023 – Improvements to Web Insight; Deletion of inactive Citrix ADM Express accounts; schedule agent upgrades; View the versions of Citrix WAF and bot signatures; and more – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 13.1 Build 42.47

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud MCS Supports Windows MAK License Activation – Citrix Cloud Updates

VMware

• Horizon Accelerator add-on for Horizon Cloud Next-gen – provides you with ongoing day-0 to day-2 support – VMware Docs
• Horizon Helpdesk Utility fling is deprecated
• Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture Tools fling – wrapper for lmvutil to only enter password once – VMware Flings

Microsoft

• Announcing general availability of FSLogix 2210 hotfix 1! – Microsoft Tech Community

Other

• Roam settings for WebEx App – ROAMINGENABLED=1 – WebEx Deployment Guild for VDI

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix WEM

• What’s new in Citrix WEM Cloud Service February 2023 – Using the web console, you can now add applications to assign to your users; WEM Tool Hub – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access (VPN) Client for Windows updated Feb 20

Citrix XenServer

• Download Citrix Workload Balancing virtual appliance 8.3.0 – For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix increased the memory recommendation for Cloud Connectors – Citrix Docs
• Videos of the new Citrix Cloud improved virtual apps and desktops launch experience – Citrix Cloud Updates

Microsoft

• FSLogix 2210 Known Issues – Microsoft Docs
• Download GPO Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (Office) updated February 21
• VMware ESXi 7.0 U3k Patch for Windows Server 2022 Secure Boot Issue – Günter Born
• Microsoft resources to help build and deepen your knowledge of Azure – Microsoft Tech Community

Other

• NVIDIA GRID 15.1 Control Panel is now a UWP app – register it for each user – vJonathan

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDA Privilege Escalation vulnerability – fixed in 2212, 2203 CU2, and 1912 CU6 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix MCS

• Get-ProvVmInUnknownPowerState – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2301.1 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app for Windows Security Bulletin – privilege elevation – fixed in 2212, 2203 CU2, and 1912 CU7 Hotfix 2 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Download Citrix Workspace app 2302 for Windows
• Citrix Workspace App installation fails on Windows Server 2012 R2 – Manually install the Edge WebView2 runtime version 109 – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Citrix Secure Hub for iOS looks different – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• VMware Tech Zone article named Microsoft Teams Optimization with VMware Horizon updated Feb 17

Microsoft

• FSLogix version 2210 Recycle Bin feature causes long logons – Disable the RoamRecycleBin setting, or wait for Hotfix 1 – Microsoft Q&A

Other

• The NVIDIA VM-based DLS (license) appliance has security vulnerabilities related to options set for file-system partitions and access permissions for some files – workaround provided – NVIDIA Docs
• Liquidware ProfileUnity Release Notes v6.8.5 – e.g., FlexApp Cloaking allows FlexApps on boot to be hidden

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Required Citrix License Server Update – enables automatic license telemetry reporting to Citrix, or manually report licensing telemetry data to Citrix – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• What’s new in Citrix Workspace app 2302 – the new version will be released first to the customers who are subscribed to automatic updates – Citrix Docs

Citrix NetScaler

• End of sale (EoS) NetScaler (Citrix ADC) perpetually licensed hardware (MPX, SDX) and perpetual software (VPX/BLX) – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix NetScaler WAF Signature version 102 contains new signatures rules for the vulnerabilities identified in the week 2023-02-03 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Download Citrix Secure Access VPN Client for Windows updated February 7
• Download Citrix Gateway EPA Libraries updated Feb 7

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud DaaS New Features February 2023 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 2212.1 (8.8.1) – multimonitor fix

Microsoft

• Nerdio for AVD upcoming version 4.7 release notes – e.g., Nerdio Advisor will provide cost modeling and optimization recommendations
• Microsoft FSLogix Release 2210 VHDX Disk Compaction in a Citrix environment with 22,000 users – CTP Matthias Schlimm

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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 42000

Citrix HDX

• Citrix Teams Optimization updates – Intel graphics driver fixed; background blurring on Mac and Linux – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2301 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 2302 for Linux

Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix ADC/NetScaler Standard Edition is End-of-sale in March 2023 – VPX 10 and VPX 25 are end-of-sale – all perpetual VPXs are end-of-sale – Citrix Product Matrix
• Download Citrix ADC Release (Maintenance Phase) 13.0 Build 90.7
• Show NetScaler SSL Profiles in one dashboard – Mick Hilhorst at Github

Citrix Gateway

• Citrix NetScaler – Advanced Clientless VPN – Julian Jakob

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Workspace Browser extension helps detect local Citrix Workspace app. Includes Service Continuity – Citrix Blog Post
• Download Automated Configuration for Virtual Apps and Desktops updated Feb 3

Microsoft

• Microsoft Teams 1.6 – update history – Microsoft Docs
• Administrative template for Azure Virtual Desktop – watermarking, screen capture protection, RDP shortpath for managed networks – Microsoft Docs

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix NetScaler ADC 13.0 is End-of-Maintenance in July 2023 – Citrix Product Matrix
• Citrix NetScaler ADC WAF Signature version 101 adds 12 rules – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud DaaS: A new option, Enable storage cost saving, is now available on the Disk Settings page when you create or update Azure catalogs. Downgrades to Standard HDD. – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Cloud DaaS: Some action names are changing in January 2023 – e.g., Update Machines renamed to Change Master Image  – Citrix Cloud Updates

VMware

• vMotion of VMware UAG is not supported? – VMware Communities
• In VMware Horizon 2212, the Administrators role does not include the Manage Certificates privilege

Microsoft

• Azure Compute Gallery best practices – For every 20 VMs that you create concurrently, we recommend you keep one replica. For example, if you create 1000 VM’s concurrently, you should keep 50 replicas – Microsoft Docs

Other

• NVIDIA vGPU Software 15.1 adds support for latest versions of Citrix, Horizon, and Windows – NVIDIA Docs

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