EUC Weekly Digest – October 22, 2016

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

StoreFront/Receiver

• Duplicated Desktop And Start Menu Shortcuts of Published Applications or Desktops Citrix Receiver – Citrix KB article
• Download Receiver 2.2 for HTML5 – Release Notes
• How To Configure Single Sign-on for Receiver for Chromebook – ADFS, FAS, NetScaler Gateway – Citrix KB article
• Users Intermittently unable to authenticate to Web Interface 5.4.2 – private build 5.4.3 – Citrix KB article

XenApp/XenDesktop

• Android devices cannot launch apps after updating to Citrix VDA 7.11 – Session Reliability issue, fix coming – Citrix KB article
• Citrix Director 7.6 Failure Reasons Demystified – details each failure reason / meaning, and lists action items – Citrix Blog Post
• Citrix VDA 7.11 has new graphics memory requirement formula: SumOfAllMons (Width * Height) * 4 / 0.3 – Citrix KB article
• Citrix VDA Configuration Options – Part 2 – ListOfSIDs, load balancing, Controller Groups, Zones – Citrix Blog Post
• Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) Storage Considerations – Citrix KB article
• Published Windows Explorer does not retain icon size and layout settings with Citrix Profile Management enabled – Citrix KB article
• In full screen desktop published from Windows 1607, Smart Card PIN prompt is not visible – Issue 5, no solution – Citrix KB article

NetScaler

• How to Force scriptable monitor to use SNIP in NetScaler – RNAT, for LDAP, StoreFront, and other Perl – Citrix KB article

XenMobile

• Download XenMobile QuickEdit for Android 6.5.1 – updated Oct 20
• Download XenMobile MDX wrappable ShareFile Android client – updated Oct 17

VMware

• VMware is developing a Skype Horizon plug-in similar to Citrix’s RTOP
• What’s New in vSphere 6.5: Host & Resource Management and Operations
• What’s new in vSphere 6.5: Security – VM encryption
• What’s New with VMware Virtual SAN 6.5 – iSCSI Target
• What’s New in vSphere 6.5: vCenter Server – vCenter HA, UI changes
• What’s new in vSphere 6.5 Core Storage – VMFS-6, View Storage Accelerator max += 32 GB
• Nested ESXi Enhancements in vSphere 6.5 – PVSCSI support, will run on 6.0.2 – William Lam
• What’s New in SRM 6.5
• Blast Extreme Does Not Measure up to PCoIP – Teradici explains why PCoIP is better than Blast
  • Blast Extreme Requires GPUs to Deliver a Competitive User Experience – Teradici

Microsoft

• Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 RD Licensing servers will work with Windows Server 2016 deployments – TechNet
• ADMX Version History – Excel spreadsheet details all ADMX changes since Vista – Technet Blog