EUC Weekly Digest – December 9, 2017

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

 

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Download Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR / XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR, Cumulative Update 1 (7.15.1000)
  • Fixed issues in XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) – Citrix Docs
  • Citrix LTSR Assistant v1.6.0.97 updated with support for XenApp and XenDesktop Long Term Service Release (LTSR) 7.15 CU1 – Citrix KB article
• Rasmus Raun-Nielsen performs some CPU analysis of XenDesktop 7.16 Browser Content Redirection, including client-side GPU – LinkedIn
• Citrix In-session Watermark Technical Preview – Citrix Blog Post

 VDA

• Download Citrix Optimizer v1.1.0.32 – Citrix KB article
• VDA optimization is by default included on VDA upgrades – can’t uncheck the optimization option – Maximum Event Log size will reduce to 1.028MB – Citrix KB article

App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.7 – Windows 10 1703 support

WEM/Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 4.5 – App Security (AppLocker), SDK PowerShell modules, SQL AlwaysOn support, user-centric Process optimization history
• On Windows 10 1709, Citrix Profile Management 7.16 resolves !CTX_OSNAME! to Win10RS2 instead of Win10RS3

 Receiver

• New Citrix Receiver virtual channel to help with AppFlow processing – Citrix KB article
• Download Citrix Receiver 13.8 for Linux

 NetScaler Gateway

• Newer NetScaler 12.x builds in Q4 2017 will have DTLS = On by default – 11.1.55.10 or 12.0.53.6 builds contain some important DTLS fixes – Citrix KB article

NetScaler MAS

• What’s new in NetScaler MA Cloud Service December 07, 2017 – stylebook dependency viewer, YAML editor – Citrix Docs

 NetScaler SD-WAN

• NetScaler Master Class December 2017 – SD-WAN – YouTube

 XenMobile

• Download XenMobile Server 10.7 Rolling Patch 2 – Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL – Citrix KB article
• Order of XenMobile timeouts – Forced Time Out (NetScaler Gateway Session policies) > Background Service Ticket > Session Timeout (NetScaler Gateway OS session policies) > Max Offline Period (MDX app) > Inactivity Timer (Client Properties on XMS) – Citrix KB article

 Citrix Cloud

• Building Citrix Cloud Workspace Solutions in Microsoft Azure – 1.5 hour recorded webinar at CUGC

VMware

• VMware Horizon 7.x/6.x Windows 10 Semi Annual Channel support FAQ – VMware Knowledgebase Article
• Download VMware Identity Manager (Workspace ONE) 3.1