EUC Weekly Digest – September 23, 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

• CTA Rory Monaghan compares the experience of working with XenApp 7.x with XenApp 6.5

VDA

• Script to add users to StateRepository to avoid default browser popup on Win16 – Christoph Kolbicz

App Layering (Unidesk)

• Download Citrix App Layering 4.5
• Deploy anti-virus software in Citrix App Layering – McAfee, AVG, Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro, etc. – Citrix Docs

WEM/Profile Management

• Download Application Security Preview for Citrix Workspace Environment Management

StoreFront

• Download Receiver 2.5.1 for HTML5 – suppress Continue button when printing PDF
• Citrix StoreFront restart of RDSH Session logs off active sessions, but not disconnected – private fix – Citrix KB article

Receiver

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9 and HDX RealTime Media Engine 2.3 for Windows bundle
• Future release of Receiver for Windows will allow cursor scaling based on the endpoint DPI scaling – Citrix KB article
• Receiver for Mac Updates Troubleshooting Guide – Citrix KB article
• Download Receiver 13.7 for Linux

NetScaler

• Secure Deployment Guide for NetScaler MPX, VPX, and SDX Appliances – updated September 2017 – 26 page whitepaper

XenMobile

• Citrix Mobility Master Class: XenMobile Security focus and the latest feature updates – YouTube
• In XenMobile 10.7.0.20, last access times for devices are (dd/mm/yyyy) instead of (mm/dd/yyyy) – intentional – Citrix KB article

Citrix Cloud

• An examination of Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop service components – James Kindon

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.3
• Download VMware Horizon client for Windows 4.6
• Download VMware User Environment Manager 9.2.1
• Download VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.5.0
• Download VMware Identity Manager 3.0
• Download VMware OS Optimization Tool September 20, 2017 version b1094
• Release Notes for VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.1 – KCD, Endpoint Compliance, Helpdesk integration
• VMware VMworld 2017 End User Computing and Digital Workspace Announcements Cheat Sheet! – Bryan Zanoli

Other

• NVIDIA GRID 5.0 released – CTP Thomas Poppelgaard
• Hotfix XA650R07W2K8R2X64015 – For Citrix XenApp 6.5 – client drive mapping fixes
• Script to compact FSLogix VHD/VHDX files – CTA David Ott