Interesting EUC items from last week:
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- New Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops LTSR and what’s included – 45-minute video – YouTube
Citrix VDA
- Citrix Webcam Preview Test Application updated Feb 28 – Simple Windows UI application to test and troubleshoot Webcam redirection on VDAs – Citrix Knowledgebase article
Citrix WEM and Profile Management
- Citrix WEM Cloud Service New Features February 2024 – Assignment Groups; WEM health check tool
Citrix Workspace app
- Citrix Workspace App Version 2311 and 2203 CU6 Causing End User Launch Failures – downgrade to 2203 CU5 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
NetScaler ADC
- NetScaler Live Motion support – NetScaler VPX does not support Hyper-V live migration. VMware vMotion is supported starting from NetScaler 13.0. XenServer Live Migration (formerly XenMotion) is supported starting from NetScaler 14.1 build 17.38. – NetScaler Docs
- NetScaler 14.1 supports exporting more than just ns.log to Splunk – shell logs (bash.log) and access logs (httpaccess.log, auth.log) – NetScaler Docs
NetScaler Console (formerly ADM)
- An unlimited number of VIPs are now available in NetScaler Console service. You no longer have to purchase NetScaler Console virtual server licenses – NetScaler Docs
Citrix Cloud
- Starting April 2, the new Citrix UI will be enabled by default for every user leveraging the cloud-based UI – Citrix Blog Post
VMware
- Horizon 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – VMware Tech Zone
- Deploying Horizon 8 and True SSO in Multi-Forest Environments – VMware Tech Zone
- Experience Management for Horizon, Powered by Workspace ONE Intelligence – 7-minute video – YouTube
- Horizon Next-Gen Data Definitions for Workspace ONE Intelligence – data definitions for sessions and infrastructure to add Horizon Next-Gen data to Intelligence dashboards and reports – VMware Docs
- VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Horizon 2.7.1 Updated: 2/29/2024 – VMware Marketplace
Microsoft
- 40% scalability impact with Microsoft Teams Workload (81 users), when compared to Baseline (137 users) – Citrix Docs
Other
- NVIDIA vGPU Security Bulletin February 2024 – Code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering
- What’s New in NVIDIA vGPU Software 17.0 (R550) – vGPUs with different amounts of frame buffer on same physical GPU; NVIDIA vGPU licenses at user login instead of at boot; older GPUs not supported
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Carl, what are your thoughts on the spin-off of the Horizon product? We are trying to plan a move to VDI and Horizon was the lead technology we were interested in, but with the recent sale everything is up in the air on what pricing, product stability, VMware integration and product direction will look like. This is a significant investment and we can’t afford to get it wrong. We have pulled back a bit and are now looking at Citrix App and Virtualization running on Nutanix as a possible route. We are an existing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops customer publishing Windows Server 2016 “desktops” to users, but it is time to move into a true VDI environment. Any learning curve is not a worry with either Horizon or Citrix VDI. Our biggest concern is with the newly presented uncertainty of the Horizon product. Thanks.