EUC Weekly Digest – June 2, 2018

Interesting EUC items from last week:

Receiver

• Starting in Q3, Citrix Receiver will be replaced by Citrix Workspace app – Workspace app will incorporate Receiver, NetScaler plug-ins, XenMobile Secure Hub, ShareFile driver mapper, desktop app and sync – Citrix Blog Post

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Citrix Supported Hypervisors table updated to show no support for vSphere 6.7 – Citrix KB article
• Hotfix DStudioWX86_7_15_2001 – For Citrix Studio 7.15 LTSR CU2 – policies not localized – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Citrix Application Launch Gets Stuck At Welcome Screen For 20-30 Seconds – if large num of groups in multiple domains – Fixed in 7.15 CU2 and 7.17 – Citrix KB article

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.11
• What’s new in Citrix App Layering 4.11 – full support for Windows Store apps, Office 365 layer for Session Host. User Layers are still a Lab feature – Citrix Docs

Director/Monitoring

• Documentation on Citrix Director 7.18 Interactive Session drill-down – Citrix Docs

WEM/Profile Management

• Hotfix ProfileMgmt_7_15_2001- For Citrix Profile Management 7.15.2000 – fix for black screen issue – AppReadiness problem – Citrix KB article

Provisioning Services

• Documentation on Citrix PVS 7.18 XenDesktop Setup Wizard connecting to Citrix Cloud Virtual Apps/Desktops Service – Or Cloud Studio can connect to on-prem PVS 7.18 – Citrix Docs

StoreFront

• Download Citrix Receiver 2.6.8 for HTML5

NetScaler MAS

• Download On-prem Citrix NetScaler MAS 12.1 Agents for scale out deployment
  • Documentation

NetScaler Gateway

• Download Updated OPSWAT v4 EPA Libraries for Citrix NetScaler 12.0 build 57 and newer – NetScaler Gateway > Update Client Components

XenServer

• Download Citrix XenServer 7.5

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.5.0
• Download VMware Horizon Clients 4.8
• Download VMware User Environment Manager 9.4.0
• Download VMware App Volumes 2.14.0
• VMware Horizon 7.5 can publish shortcuts to Desktop. It creates a Desktop folder with the category name.
• New VMware Horizon Performance Tracker – optional component of Horizon Agent 7.5
• New Horizon 7.5 HTML5 Console – JMP is optional. Help Desk User Search is integrated. Not all features supported yet – VMware Docs
• VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition On-premises Reference Architecture – 328 pages – VMware Tech Zone

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