EUC Weekly Digest – March 4, 2017

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

For a list of updates at carlstalhood.com, see the Detailed Change Log.

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Updated Visio Stencils for @citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.13 – Citrix Daniel Feller
• Restart Schedule Does Not Work If We Send Any Notification Message In XenApp 7.12 – fixed in 7.13 – Citrix KB article
• Citrix XenDesktop Reboot Schedule Internals – technical detail on how these schedules operate in the 7.x products – Citrix Blog Post
• The application layering technology cheat sheet, version 3.0!– CTP Bas van Kaam
• Download Citrix DesktopPlayer for Windows and Mac 2.3

VDA

• LoginVSI Windows 2016 tuning template for VMware OS Optimization Tool

MCS

• XenDesktop 7.12 MCS Newly Created XenServer VMs Are Reporting “XenTools Not Installed” – fixed in 7.13 – Citrix KB article

HDX

• How to Confirm HDX Enlightened Data Transport Protocol is Active – Citrix KB article
• Citrix HDX 3D Pro now supports AMD GPUs for Desktop OS VDAs, AMD Multiuser GPU (MxGPU) on the AMD FirePro S-series – Citrix KB article
• How to Enable Hardware Encoding of Citrix H.264 streams using Intel Iris Pro Hardware – install drivers – Citrix KB article
• Can’t left click volume control in Citrix published desktop? – Adjust registry permissions – Citrix Discussions

WEM/Profile Management

• Roaming File Type Associations on Windows 10 with Citrix Profile Management 5.7 – 3 minute YouTube video
• Using the layout modification XML to configure Start is not supported with roaming user profiles – Microsoft TechNet
• How To Review Citrix Profile Management Log Files using Microsoft Excel – Citrix KB article

StoreFront

• Enable RfWeb to use Citrix Receiver Launcher for Edge and remove prompt on each launch – client-side registry – Citrix Blog Post
• How to rewrite the Client Name in Citrix StoreFront 3.9 using the StoreFront SDK – CTP Jason Samuel

NetScaler

• Download NetScaler 11.1 Build 52.13
• NetScaler Master Class March 2017 – HA, GSLB, Clustering – 2 hour YouTube video
• NetScaler AppFW does not detect double encoded cross site scripting by default – enable recursion – Citrix KB article
• How to configure NetScaler AppQoE to protect against DDOS – Johannes Norz
• Use NetScaler to provide user-friendly FQDNs to Office 365 – CTP Simon Gottschlag

NetScaler MAS

• Download NetScaler MAS 11.1 Build 52.13

NetScaler Gateway

• Create NetScaler EPA Scan to Detect Receiver on Clients – registry key – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.5.0.24
• Download Citrix XenMobile Public MDX files v10.5.0 for iOS/Android
• To access the XenMobile 10.5 mgmt console, use only the XenMobile public FQDN, or the IP address of the node – Citrix KB article
• XenMobile Server 10.5 and SmartAccess FAQ – SmartAccess headers, certificate – Citrix KB article
• XenMobile 10.5 can provide connection to StorageZone Connectors without needing ShareFile – Citrix Docs
• As of XenMobile Secure Mail 10.5, Exchange 2007 is supported until June 30 2017, Notes 8.5.3 until Sep 30 2018 – Citrix Docs

XenServer

• Citrix LTSR Assistant new version – Introduces support for XenServer LTSR compliance checking – Citrix KB article
• How to Configure XenServer 7.1 PVS-Accelerator – supplemental pack, CLI/GUI, PvS – Citrix KB article
• How to change Control Domain memory using XenCenter in XenServer 7.1 and higher – Citrix KB article
• CLI Commands and logs for XenServer 7.1 Live Patching – Citrix KB article

VMware

• Download VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.5 – compatible with vROPs for Horizon
• VMware Validated Designs 4.0 – updated March 2
• Reference Architecture for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.12 on VMware vSAN 6.5 all-flash – VMware Blog Post

Microsoft

• App-V 5.1 is approaching end of Mainstream Support – Simon Dettling