EUC Weekly Digest – April 30, 2016

Here are some EUC items I found interesting last week.

Citrix

• StoreFront:
  • Code at Discussions to add featured app groups to categories view and increase # of featured apps
• Receiver:
  • Download Receiver for Windows 4.4.1000 – new checkbox to suppress Add Account wizard – Citrix KB
  • Receiver for HTML5 2.0 re-released to fix some taskbar issues.
  • Receiver JSON error when X1 theme is enabled – uncheck “Enable Client Side Measurements” in the AppFlow actions. Citrix Discussions.
• NetScaler:
  • How to insert Client IP into TCP protocol – Usually only possible for HTTP. Now TCP too. Citrix KB
  • NetScaler Clustering Simplified Into 3 Easy Steps – Citrix KB
  • Demo NetScaler Datastream with SQL AlwaysOn – monitor to verify SQL replica availability. Content Switching read vs write. Integrated caching. Demo application. Jake Rutski blog post
  • Geo Maps don’t work in Insight Center 11.0 build 65 – Citrix Discussions
  • Configure NetScaler for DirectAccess load balancing – YouTube video
• XenMobile:
  • Download ShareFile StorageZones Controller 4.0 – new rights management functionality
    • ShareFile StorageZones Controller 4.0 supports TLS 1.2 – no Mac clients. Windows clients need registry key.
  • ShareFile Protected Document Viewers – to view Rights Protected files
  • XenMobile Server 10.3 Rolling Patch 2
  • Citrix Mobility Master Class: 10.3.5 new features, MAM First, Auto Wipe, Reverse Split Tunnel, Apple DEP (including supervisor mode), VPP (including WorxHome). YouTube video.
  • Configure NetScaler as SAML iDP for ShareFile. Internal users do Integrated Windows Auth (Kerberos). If fails, prompt for NTLM instead. LDAP for attribute extraction. Citrix KB.
  • How to export WiFi settings from Windows 10 and use XenMobile to push to Windows 10 machines. – Citrix Blog Post
  • WorxMail 10.3.5 will support 451 redirection to move mailboxes from on-prem  to cloud – Citrix KB
  • Node.js code to upload an .mdx file to XenMobile – Citrix Discussions
• Upload Access database and connect using HTML5 Receiver – new Citrix Workspace Cloud service. Citrix Blog Post.
• Citrix TV is retiring – use YouTube instead
• Tools to transfer commands, files, links, and mail to client device – uses Virtual Channel. MQ Technologies.

VMware

• Download VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2.1
• Known limitations of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v4 series with ESXi – VMware KB
• Mirage and MongoDB – Overview, High Availability. VMware blog post
• “Your user account is disabled” error in VMware Horizon – known issue in 6.2.0/.1 – Terence Luk

Other

• Windows Subsystem for Linux: Architectural Overview – 20 minute video, unmodified Bash doing Linux system calls on Windows
• Download Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
  • What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
  • What’s new with System Center 2016 – Shielded VMs, Storage Spaces Direct, SCOM MP Recommendations, tune SCOM MPs to reduce alerts. 15 minute video
• MAM and Conditional Access for Skype for Business – no enrollment needed