EUC Weekly Digest – November 3, 2018

November 3, 2018, 6:16 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR / XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR, Cumulative Update 3
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR CU3 supports VMware vSphere 6.7 – no Windows 2019 support – Citrix Docs
• GUI to publish “content” or URLs into your Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.x environments – Citrix Github
• Citrix LTSR Assistant updated with files dates Oct 26 – TLS 1.2 support – Citrix KB article

VDA

• Endpoint Security and Antivirus Best Practices – Citrix Docs

Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning Services 7.15.9 (in 7.15 LTSR CU3)
• PowerShell script to Automate PVS Target Device and VM Creation – Ray Reyes at SageLike

Receiver / Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1810 for Windows

NetScaler ADC

• NetScaler 59XX or 89XX Stops Processing SSL Traffic – upgrade firmware – Citrix KB article
• Deploy Citrix ADC VPX On Nutanix AHV – Magnus Andersson
• Citrix NetScaler 10.5 is End of Maintenance on April 30, 2019 and End of Life on April 30, 2020 – Citrix KB article

Citrix Cloud

• Scale and size considerations for Local Host Cache in Citrix Cloud Connectors – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Tools 10.3.5
• Send messages to end users using the Horizon API – Wouter Kursten
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM Recommended Architecture Guide – VMware Docs

Other

• LoginVSI PowerShell – Automate Tests – Daniel Feller

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EUC Weekly Digest – November 17, 2018

November 17, 2018, 5:43 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix

• This week, Citrix announced the acquisition of Sapho – Citrix Blog Post

VDA

• Known issues for Citrix CVAD 1808 on Windows Server 2019 – Citrix KB article

StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1811.2 for HTML5

Receiver/Workspace app

• Citrix Cloud Workspace Brand Personalization Service (Tech Preview) – Citrix Blog Post

NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 59.9 – replaces build 59.8
• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 11.1 Build 60.13
• Anycast support in Citrix ADC GSLB – Citrix Docs

XenMobile / Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 10.18.19 – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Secure Mail and Secure Web MDX files updated Nov 7

Citrix Cloud

• What’s new in Citrix Application Delivery Manager (cloud) November 16, 2018 – Configure AppFlow on multiple virtual servers – Citrix Docs
• What’s New in Citrix Security Analytics November 16, 2018 – search for Access Control data; provide feedback regarding a risk indicator – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Upcoming VMware Horizon 7.7 new features – built-in HA for UAG appliances (no need for load balancer), Windows 2019 support – VMware Blog Post
• What’s New with Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS – VMware Blog Post
• Download Workspace ONE® Intelligent Hub
• Workspace ONE Intelligence What’s New In Q3 2018 – YouTube
• VMware Identity Manager and Workspace ONE Intelligence Feature Walk-through – YouTube

Microsoft

• Mapped drives may fail to reconnect after starting and logging onto a Windows 10 1809 device – workaround scripts – Microsoft knowledgebase

Other

• Digital Workspace and DaaS Cheat sheet – 22 characteristics of 6 different vendors – CTP  Christiaan Brinkhoff
• SPECviewperf 13 benchmark results  for Citrix XenDesktop on Citrix XenServer with NVIDIA Tesla P4, P6, and P40 cards on Cisco UCS C240 M5 and B200 M5 servers – Cisco White Paper

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EUC Weekly Digest – November 24, 2018

November 24, 2018, 5:21 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Profile Management

• Download Citrix Profile Management Configuration Checking Tool – UPMConfigCheck updated November 22 – added Windows 10 / Windows 2016 / Windows 2019 support

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1811.3 for HTML5

Citrix NetScaler ADC

• Citrix Networking Master Class – November 2018 – Citrix ADM (MAS), Access Control – YouTube

Citrix NetScaler Gateway

• Download Citrix Gateway EPA (endpoint analysis) Libraries for Windows updated Nov 19 2018

Microsoft

• Microsoft has agreed to acquire FSLogix – Microsoft Blog

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

EUC Weekly Digest – December 8, 2018

December 8, 2018, 3:57 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix Optimizer version 2 – Windows 10 1809 – 17% increased VSIMax score – Eltjo van Gulik

Citrix NetScaler ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 50.28
• Release Notes for Build 50.28 of Citrix ADC 12.1 Release – Device Certificate in nFactor as an EPA component, DTLSv1.0 and TLSv1.3 support on 5900/8900
• Deploy a Citrix ADC VPX instance on Google Cloud Platform – Citrix Docs
• Retrieve location details from user IP address using geolocation database and use in Citrix ADC policy expressions – in 12.1 build 50 – Citrix Docs
• Inline device integration with Citrix ADC – Citrix Docs

Citrix NetScaler MAS / ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 50.28
• Citrix ADM 12.1 is supported on vSphere 6.7 – Citrix Docs

Citrix NetScaler Gateway

• HDX Insight Quality Improvement in Gateway 12.1 and VDA 7.17+
• Self-service password request (SSPR) in Citrix Gateway 12.1 build 50 – uses nFactor – Citrix Docs
• Device Certificate in nFactor as an EPA component – Citrix Docs

Citrix XenMobile / Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix MDX files for Secure Mail & Secure Web Released 30 Nov 2018
• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 10.18.20 – new Android features – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.4 – High availability support without load balancer; three editions of UAG
• What’s New VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.4 – YouTube
• HA in VMware UAG 3.4 requires UAG Enterprise Edition – VMware Docs
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM™ Powered by AirWatch 1811 Release Notes – VMware Docs

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 October 2018 Update (1809)

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EUC Weekly Digest – December 15, 2018

December 15, 2018, 5:31 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1811, All Editions
• What’s new in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1811 – Citrix Docs
• Citrix CVAD 1811 has a new Catalog Functional Level 1811 – reboot Controller after upgrading to see it
• mycitrix.com has a new Licensing interface – Citrix Docs

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Browser Content Redirection for 7.15 CU3
• Download Citrix VDA Cleanup Utility updated 12/13
• “Optimizing Windows Server 2019 using the Citrix Optimizer version 2 in combination with the Citrix provided template does not result in a lower resource utilization” – but does help Windows 10 – Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1812

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 1811
• When booting Windows 10 1809/Windows Server 2019 with Citrix PVS using Cache in device RAM with overflow on hard disk, Windows displays a pagefile message or a Performance Options interface. This is a known issue with Windows 1809 – Citrix Docs

Citrix StoreFront

• Citrix StoreFront 1811 has the newer “purple” interface – Citrix Docs
• Citrix CVAD 1811 comes with updated Citrix Application Probe Agent 1811

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1812 for Windows
  • The Citrix Workspace app included in CVAD 1811 is Workspace app 1811. Workspace app 1812 is newer. Download CWA 1812 separately.
• Download Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.7 for Microsoft Skype® for Business
• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.5000 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 5
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1812 for Mac

Citrix ADM

• Infrastructure analytics in Citrix ADM – collates all the data gathered from the Citrix ADC instances and quantifies it into an Instance Score that defines the health of the instances – Citrix Docs

Citrix Hypervisor

• Download Citrix XenServer 7.1 LTSR Enterprise Edition with Cumulative Update 2 – Guest support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Tech Preview)

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Analytics can collect risk indicators from Microsoft Security Graph – Azure AD Identity Protection and Defender ATP – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.7.0 Standard
  • What’s new in VMware Horizon 7.7 – YouTube
• Download VMware Horizon Client for Windows 4.10
• Download VMware User Environment Manager 9.6.0
  • User Environment Manager 9.6 What’s New Overview – configuration changelog – YouTube
• Download VMware App Volumes 2.15.0
  • VMware App Volumes 2.15 What’s New Overview – OneDrive and Box support, AWS support – YouTube
• VMware Horizon Cloud Service Release Notes – v1.8 – December 2018 – VMware Docs
• VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 3.4 is supported with Horizon 7.6 and 7.7, but not Horizon 7.5 – VMware Product Interoperability Matrix

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EUC Weekly Digest – December 22, 2018

December 22, 2018, 4:36 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix Optimizer v2 – Template builder, marketplace, new templates, auto-selection and much more – Citrix KB article

Citrix HDX

• Top 10 Citrix HDX Innovations of the past two years – EDT protocol, HDX Adaptive Throughput, ICA Bandwidth Reductions, Browser Content Redirection (BCR), H.264/H.265 Build to Lossless, Session Watermarking, Progressive Display, and more – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 60.9
• AMD processor is not supported for provisioning Citrix ADC VPX on Hyper-V – Citrix KB article

Citrix Workspace

• Citrix Workspace Master Class: Content Collaboration, Endpoint Management – Sapho too – YouTube

Other

• New Citrix Plug-ins for Nutanix AHV released: Nutanix AHV Plug-In for Citrix Director 1.1.1.0 and new single Plug-in 2.0.0.0 with merged Nutanix CWA, Citrix PVS and XenDesktop MCS for AHV support – René Bigler on Twitter

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EUC Weekly Digest – January 5, 2019

January 5, 2019, 3:17 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix Supportability Pack v1.7.0 updated January 3 – updated 8 tools, removed 19 tools – Citrix KB article
• How to configure Citrix Browser Content Redirection for Google Meet, Google Hangouts, and WebEx Teams – Citrix KB article

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 1811
• Citrix WEM cannot pin apps to taskbar in Windows 10 v1809 – Citrix is investigating this issue – issue 10 – Citrix KB article

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC CPX Deployment Validated Reference Design – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• What’s new in Citrix Analytics January 04, 2019 – Microsoft Security Graph risk indicators, Self-service search, User Trend View and Map View – Citrix Docs

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EUC Weekly Digest – January 12, 2019

January 12, 2019, 5:07 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Citrix LTSR Assistant updated January 7 – Added support for the browser content redirection feature on 7.15 LTSR – Citrix KB article

Citrix VDA

• Fresh install of Citrix VDA 1811 without MCS or PVS does not install Browser Content Redirection (BCR) – install BCR_x64.msi manually – Citrix Discussions

Citrix HDX

• Currently Citrix Browser Content Redirection (BCR) is not able to use Integrated Windows Authentication or display the pop-up Windows Security box – users see blank page – Citrix is aware of this limitation and targeting a fix – Citrix KB article

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Quick start guide – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADC

• Security best practices for Citrix ADC MPX, VPX, and SDX – Citrix Docs
• Get notified of Citrix ADC App Firewall signature updates – Add Product > Application Firewall > Signatures
• Learn how to use Citrix ADC in two tier microservices architecture – Kubernetes Ingress Controller – Citrix Github

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.9.0 Rolling Patch 2 – Citrix KB article
• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 10.19.1 – Connection scheduling policy no longer allows continuous connections (use FCM instead)

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Cloud Success Center – lots of documentation and videos on prerequisites, build guides, validation guides, end user guides, monitoring, and management
• Citrix Cloud Virtual Apps and Desktops Service Reference Architecture and Deployment Methods – Citrix Tech Zone
• Deploy Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on AWS with New Quick Start – also creates Catalog, Delivery Group, and published app in Citrix Cloud – AWS CloudFormation Quick Start

VMware

• VMware Workspace ONE Intelligence Release Notes 19.01.09 – Mobile App Analytics

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EUC Weekly Digest – January 19, 2019

January 19, 2019, 2:51 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Download Citrix Connection Quality Indicator (CQI) updated January 15
• Analyzing system crashes on non-persistent machines – Dennis Span

Citrix MCS

• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Image Management – Tech Zone at Citrix Docs

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1901

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1901 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace App Reference Architecture – Tech Zone at Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM (aka MAS) Release 12.1 Build 50.30 – replaces build 50.28

VMware

• Download VMware View Planner 4.0.0 released Jan 17 – virtual desktop benchmarking

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated Jan 18

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

EUC Weekly Digest – February 2, 2019

February 2, 2019, 5:42 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• How to enable Local Text Echo in Citrix Virtual Apps 1811 – Citrix KB article

Citrix Provisioning

• Citrix Provisioning 1811 documentation updated to indicate support for Windows Server 2019 – Citrix Docs
• Citrix Provisioning: Windows 10 v1803 fails to create pagefile on non-OS volume after installing patch KB4480976 – users are advised to uninstall KB4480976 – Citrix KB article
• New Version 3.2 of vDiskReplicationUtility – Adds ability to limit bandwidth on slower circuits – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix ADC

• TLS Padding Oracle Vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway – fixed in builds released on Jan 23 – Citrix KB article
  • IMPORTANT: This vuln is caused by the underlying TLS hardware, specifically N2\N3 cards. Are VPXs running on 3rd party hypervisors vulnerable (non-SDX)? No. Nor are the appliances using Coleto Creek hardware. Read carefully. – Jake Rutski on Twitter
  • Download new Citrix NetScaler builds for all versions 10.5 and newer
  • Download Citrix ADC Release 12.1 Build 50.31 – replaces Build 50.28
• Citrix ADC Firmware Release Cycle – versions that end in x.1 (e.g 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1 etc.) get three years of maintenance releases. Versions that end in x.0 only get one year of maintenance releases – Citrix KB article
• Citrix Response to DNS Flag Day – impacts GSLB – Configure SOA and NS records for the zones you are authoritative for; configure ADNS_TCP type service also – Citrix KB article
• Citrix ADC Pooled Capacity Validated Reference Design – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) now supports enlightened data transport (EDT) for displaying analytics for HDX Insight – some metrics are not available for EDT sessions since they require the TCP stack – Citrix Docs
• What’s new in Citrix Application Delivery Management Cloud Service – ADM Agent redundancy in each site; export network reports and infrastructure analytics dashboard; scheduled report exports – Citrix Docs

Citrix Gateway

• Self-service password reset via Citrix ADC – CTP George Spiers

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Secure Mail 19.1.0 – Contacts: view manager, direct reports, peers; Export Meeting Time and Location to your native calendar – Citrix Docs

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EUC Weekly Digest – February 9, 2019

February 9, 2019, 4:30 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Download Cumulative Update 7 for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 LTSR

Citrix VDA

• Citrix Health Assistant updated February 2 – Troubleshoot VDA Registration and Session Launch – Citrix KB article

Citrix App Layering

• Caution! If already using or intended for upgrading to Citrix App Layering 1901 – Make sure to replace the kmssetup.cmd in OS Layer with a previous version of the script after upgrading the Machine Tools! Otherwise your KMS Office Activation will not be triggered at startup! – Jonas Braun via Twitter

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Performance difference between user profiles – These results are not as expected and show a roaming user profile is the best profile type to use – Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6.8 for 7.6 LTSR CU7

Citrix StoreFront

• HowTo: Active-Active Multi-Datacenter Citrix FAS – Michael Shuster

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1901 for Mac

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 11.1 Build 61.7
• Citrix Networking Master Class – February 2019 – Cloud Native Networking – YouTube

Other

• Nutanix AHV Plug-In for Citrix 2.2.0.0 released – CTP Alexander Ervik Johnsen

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EUC Weekly Digest – February 16, 2019

February 16, 2019, 4:31 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1902 for HTML5

Citrix Workspace app

• Script to clean up per-user installs of Citrix Receiver when switching to per-machine installs – Mark DePalma

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Troubleshooting GSLB MEP and Sync Cheat Sheet – Citrix KB article

VMware

• Upcoming changes to on-boarding iOS devices to MDM – users must manually switch to Settings to approve the profile – VMware Blog Post
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM™ Powered by AirWatch 1902 Release Notes
  • Workspace ONE 1902 Release Technical Deep Dive – YouTube
• VMware Workspace ONE Intelligence Release Notes 19.02.13
• VMware Workspace ONE Mobile Flows – 5 minute YouTube video

Microsoft

• Download Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated 2/14/2019

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

EUC Weekly Digest – February 23, 2019

February 23, 2019, 4:38 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1902
• In Citrix Layering 1902, to fix Office activation: 1. install the 1902 OS Machine Tools scripts in OS Layer; 2. version Office layer with new OS Layer; 3. rerun Optimizer activation. Details at Citrix Discussions

Citrix Cloud

• What’s new in Citrix Analytics February 19, 2019 – Splunk integration, trigger session recording dynamically on the users’ current Virtual Apps and Desktops sessions, Risky Share Links – Citrix Docs

VMware

• VMware Workspace ONE Intelligence Release Notes 19.02.20
• Download VMware ThinApp 5.2.5 – support for Windows 2019 and Windows 10 1809

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

EUC Weekly Digest – March 9, 2019

March 9, 2019, 3:58 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix

• First words from the 2019 Citrix Technology Professionals – CTP Nicolas Ignoto

Citrix VDA

• Microsoft Teams on Citrix XenApp – CTP James Rankin
• Printers part of Citrix Universal Print Server are no longer mapped after Windows 10 is upgraded to Windows 10 19H1 – known issue 8 – Citrix KB article

Citrix HDX

• Remote Display Analyzer 1902 released!

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1902.1 for HTML5

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 51.16
  • What’s New in Build 51.16 of Citrix ADC 12.1 – AlwaysON VPN tunnel before user login; Display reason for high availability sync failure; EDT support on 59xx/89xx; Two factor authentication for ADC management access
• Two Factor Authentication for Citrix ADC Management – carlstalhood.com
• Tool to convert Maxmind GeoIP City database to Citrix ADC (NetScaler) GSLB format – Citrix github
• Citrix Networking Master Class – April 2019 – YouTube
• New Citrix ADC cleanup script that parses configuration file for Unused Objects and outputs a list of “rm” commands to remove the unused objects – cstalhood Github

Citrix Cloud

• New multi-factor authentication MFA option within Citrix Workspace utilizing TOTP – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.5.2 Standard (ESB Release)
• Download VMware User Environment Manager 9.4.1 (ESB)
• Download VMware App Volumes 2.14.3 (ESB)
• The Horizon Helpdesk Utility fling version 1.3.3.1 has been released – Wouter Kursten
• Manage Secure Notes and Tasks using VMware Workspace ONE Notebook – AirWatch Knowledgebase
• Workspace ONE Notebook – Connect to your Exchange account and manage the notes and tasks associated with that account – VMware Docs

Other

• What’s new in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software 7.2 – Support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1903, and support for VMware Horizon 7.8

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EUC Weekly Digest – March 16, 2019

March 16, 2019, 4:19 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1902 for Windows

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Agent 12.1 Build 50.33 – Agent only
  • Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) Agent Security Update – Citrix KB article

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 19.3.0 – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Smart Scale End of Life extended to May 31, 2019 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Horizon 7.8.0
  • VMware Horizon 7.8 What’s New Technical Overview – YouTube
  • VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.5 Deep Dive – Azure deployment – YouTube
• Download VMware Tools 10.3.10 – pvscsi and vmxnet3 driver updates are now available through Microsoft’s Windows Update service for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019

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EUC Weekly Digest – March 23, 2019

March 23, 2019, 4:12 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix VDA

• Citrix VDA versions and Login VSI VSImax value – All Citrix Current Release VDA versions show an improvement in scalability compared to the LTSR versions, but from 1808.2 onward the improvement is massive (30%) – Eltjo van Gulik
• Citrix Optimizer 2.1 has been released – tons of small updates/changes/fixes mostly for UI, much better HTML reports – Citrix KB article

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Receiver 4.9.6000 for Windows, LTSR Cumulative Update 6

Citrix ADC

• ADC 12.1.51.16 removes monitor binding in servicegroups during reboot/failover in an HA pair. restore missing bind points from last known saved config (notepad++ is your friend with bookmark search), wait for .17+ build in downloads and then upgrade! – CTP Thorsten Rood on Twitter
• Citrix AppFW Signature version 27.0 for the vulnerabilities identified in February 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM stylebook with different roles and different configurations on different ADC instances – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Secure Mail 19.3.0 – support for recent Exchange cumulative updates; organize feeds; action buttons moved to bottom of screen – Citrix Docs

Microsoft

• FSLogix profile container is free for all RDS CALs and VDA licenses – Microsoft Docs
• New OneDrive per-machine installation option – you can install OneDrive under the “Program Files (x86)” directory, meaning all profiles on the computer will use the same OneDrive.exe binary – Microsoft Docs

Other

• Ad blockers in VDI – VSImax shows a huge 47% improvement when using DNS based ad blocking. Browser based ad blocking is only an 8% improvement – Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk

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

EUC Weekly Digest – March 30, 2019

March 30, 2019, 5:24 am

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• What’s new in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1903 – Citrix Docs
• Download Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1903, All Editions

Citrix Director / Monitoring

• Citrix Session Recording 1903 enhancements – log web browsing activities – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• New Profile container feature in Citrix Profile Management 1903 – Map specified folders to the profile disk that is stored on the network – Citrix Docs

Citrix StoreFront

• Download Citrix StoreFront 1903

Citrix Provisioning

• Download Citrix Provisioning 1903

Citrix Workspace app

• Download Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Windows
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Mac
• Download Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Linux
• How to clean up per-user install of Workspace app after per-machine installation – lots of registry keys – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Citrix ADC Network Visualizer in 12.1 51.16 – Citrix Blog Post

VMware

• Workspace ONE UEM (AirWatch) 1903: Technical Deep Dive – YouTube
• VMware Workspace ONE UEM (AirWatch) 1903 Release Notes – VMware Docs
• Identity Manager Migration/Backup Tool – VMware Fling

Microsoft

• Getting started with Windows Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Blog

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

EUC Weekly Digest – April 6, 2019

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• New Citrix Tech Zone Document History and RSS Feed
• Scale Citrix Session Recording to 20K users – CTA Hal Lange and CTP Ryan Revord at CUGC

Citrix MCS

• Impact of new MCS RAM-based write cache capability in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) 1903 – Citrix Daniel Feller

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Download Citrix Workspace Environment Management 1903
• Folder Redirection is not working via Studio policies when using Citrix Profile Management – don’t enable “Prohibit User from manually redirecting Profile Folders” Windows policy – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app 1903 for Mac was removed from downloads due to known issues – Citrix Discussions

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix ADC 12.1 Build 51.19 – replaces build 51.16 – fixes for EDT with AppFlow, and Service Group monitor bindings
• Citrix Networking Master Class April 2019 recording – Intelligent Traffic Management and SD-WAN

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix ADM Release (Feature Phase) 12.1 Build 50.39
• What’s new in Citrix ADM Cloud Service April 01, 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix SD-WAN

• Citrix SD-WAN Reference Architecture at Citrix Tech Zone

Citrix ITM

• Introduction to Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management at Citrix Tech Zone
• GSLB as a service available with Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management – Citrix Blog Post

Citrix Endpoint Management

• New Document History and RSS Feed for Citrix Endpoint Management at Citrix Docs

VMware

• Horizon View Design Considerations – René van den Bedem

Microsoft

• Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016 updated 4/2/2019

For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

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

Here’s an excerpt of the Detailed Change Log from last week:

• 2019 Apr 4:
  • Citrix Workspace Environment Management – Updated Install sections for version 1903
  • Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent – Optimize Performance – added link to Citrix Blog Post Citrix Optimizer 2.1 – What’s new.
• 2019 Apr 2:
  • Citrix Session Recording – added Broker_PowerShellSnapIn_x64.msi to Recording Policies and upgrade
• 2019 Apr 1:
  • Citrix FAS Configuration – added PowerShell command to show expiration date of Authorization certificate (h/t CTP Carl Webster)
  • Citrix ADC – Upgrade Firmware – updated screenshots for 12.1 build 51.19
• 2019 Mar 31:
  • Upgrade Citrix ADM – Updated screenshots for ADM 12.1 build 50.39
  • Citrix Session Recording – updated Event Logging Policies for version 1903
  • Citrix Workspace app – Administrator vs non-administrator – added link to Citrix article CTX249920 Workspace App for Windows – Your apps are not available at this time – Issue when installing Citrix Receiver in not elevated/per-user install mode
  • Citrix Profile Management – new Profile Container section for version 1903
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – updated all articles for version 1903

EUC Weekly Digest – April 13, 2019

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Can’t add Citrix Studio Host Connection to vSphere if NSX-T is implemented – fixed in CVAD 1903; fixes for cloud and LTSR are coming – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix VDA

• Leee Jeffries PowerScale – Replacement for Citrix SmartScale – Github

Citrix App Layering

• Download Citrix App Layering 1903

Citrix Workspace app

• Citrix Workspace app 1903.1 for Mac is back
• Upcoming Citrix Workspace App 1904 for Windows requires .NET Framework Version 4.6.2 or later – Citrix Knowledgebase article

Citrix ADC

• Download Citrix NetScaler Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 61.8
• Citrix ADC Classic Policy Expressions won’t be removed until Q2 2020 instead of 2019 – Citrix Knowledgebase article
• Citrix ADC Web App Firewall Signature update for March 2019 – Citrix Docs

Citrix ADM

• Download Citrix NetScaler MAS Release (Maintenance Phase) 12.0 Build 61.8

Citrix Endpoint Management

• Download Citrix XenMobile Server 10.10

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix and Microsoft – 64 page step-by-step Preview Guide to CVAD Service with Windows Virtual Desktop WVD and Windows 10 multi-session

VMware

• Download VMware vSphere 6.7U2
• Download VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5
  • What’s New in vRealize Operations 7.5? A Technical Overview, Part 1 – VMware Blog Post

For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

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

Change Log

Here’s an excerpt of the Change Log from last week:

• 2019 Apr 8:
  • VMware Horizon– new DPI GPO setting to change DPI on session reconnect
• 2019 Apr 7:
  • Citrix Profile Management– Folders to Mirror – added info from CTX235698 Issues to synchronize bookmarks of Google Chrome using Citrix UPM on latest LTSR version (7.15 CU2)
  • Group Policy– Lockdown Desktop GPO Settings – added link to CTX250046 Folder Redirection is not working via Studio policies when using Citrix Profile Management
  • Group Policy– Office 2016/365/2019 Group Policy Templates – updated for build 4840
  • VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon– Patch/Upgrade vROps Appliance – updated for VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.0

EUC Weekly Digest – April 20, 2019

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Interesting EUC items from last week:

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Considerations for running Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Azure – Citrix Docs

Citrix WEM and Profile Management

• Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) integration with Endpoint Management (CEM) – WEM Agent applies GPOs from CEM; MDM not needed – Citrix Docs

Citrix Endpoint Management

• What’s new in Citrix Endpoint Management 19.4.1 – WEM Integration – Citrix Docs

Citrix Cloud

• Citrix Smart Check (Smart Tools) reaches End of Life on May 31, 2019 – Citrix Docs

VMware

• Download VMware Identity Manager 19.03
• What’s New in VMware Identity Manager 19.03 – VMware Blog Post

Other

• What’s New in NVIDIA vGPU Software R418 (v8.0) – Win10 1809 support, Win2019 support, more vGPU migration support

For more immediate updates, follow me at http://twitter.com/cstalhood.

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