Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR Cumulative Update 1

The first Cumulative Update (CU1) for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR released in May 2020.

Citrix released the first of Cumulative Update (CU1) in the maintenance lifecycle of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR.

Long Term Service Release (LTSR) Lifecycle Dates
Long Term Service Release (LTSR) Lifecycle Dates

Customer Success Services / Software Maintenance eligibility date: April 15, 2020

Important quote from the release notes: Continue reading “Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR Cumulative Update 1”

Release of FSLogix Apps release 2004 (2.9.7349.30108)

Today Microsoft released FSlogix Apps release 2004 (2.9.7349.30108)

You can find the source of the announcement here, including the Release Notes. A copy of the original release notes are quoted below.

Source: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e82cb114-2459-4a99-bcbf-50b7d314b5b9/release-notes-for-fslogix-apps-release-2004-29734930108?forum=FSLogix

Release Notes: Continue reading “Release of FSLogix Apps release 2004 (2.9.7349.30108)”

Integrate the VcRedist PowerShell Module with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

The VcRedist PowerShell Module by Aaron Parker provides an easy to use evergreen module to integrate the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtimes into your MDT Reference Images.

If you are using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to build your Reference Images and Citrix Master Images, you are most certainly trying to include the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables for Visual Studio into your Reference Images. Recently I switched to the VcRedist PowerShell Module by Aaron Parker to achieve this task and with this blog post I’m going to show you how to do this yourself. Continue reading “Integrate the VcRedist PowerShell Module with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)”

New Citrix Software as of December 2019: CVAD 1912 (LTSR), WEM 1912 and Workspace app 1911

In December Citrix released a new LTSR branch of Virtual apps and desktops

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 (formerly XenApp)

Download: https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops/product-software/citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops-1912.html
What’s new: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new.html

Customer Success Services eligibility date: November 15, 2019

Examples of new features:
  • LTSR release

Continue reading “New Citrix Software as of December 2019: CVAD 1912 (LTSR), WEM 1912 and Workspace app 1911”

Office 365 ProPlus now officially supported on Windows Server 2019 + release of FSLogix

Today Microsoft made a huge announcement for the EUC community: Office 365 ProPlus now officially supported on Windows Server 2019 and FSLogix is now available for everyone who is entitled!

You can find the official announcement from Microsoft here: Improving the Office app experience in virtual environments

Additionally Microsoft finally releases a slightly rebranded version of the FSLogix Full suite which is now called Microsoft FSLogix and doesn’t need a license key anymore. Also the versioning has been changed, to reflect the style of several other Microsoft of Citrix products with now 4 digits,the first 2 digits refer to the year, and the last 2 digits refer to the month. The version being now is called 1907. Check out if you’re eligible. You must be licensed for one of the following Microsoft products: Continue reading “Office 365 ProPlus now officially supported on Windows Server 2019 + release of FSLogix”