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”

I did become a CTA – How did that happen?

tl;dr: Create a blog, check out Twitter and follow the community.
Share content, even if you’re no Pro, everybody needs to start somewhere.

A few years ago I was thinking about which path I should take in my IT career. My key competences were clear for some time. During and after my apprenticeship at my employer ANAXCO GmbH, I was on several instructor-led Citrix classroom courses. One of my main tasks in our company is the design and configuration of Citrix virtual apps and Desktops Sites (formerly XenApp & XenDesktop Farms) for the provisioning of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 / 2012 / 365. There is a reason our company’s name is “AN AX COmpany”. So my work with CVAD and Citrix Gateway  (formerly NetScaler Gateway) was already settled. Besides that I had the opportunity to go to a brilliant deep dive classroom course for Microsoft Group Policy at NT-Systems in Germany. Continue reading “I did become a CTA – How did that happen?”

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”

New Citrix Software as of June 2019: CVAD 1906, WEM 1906 and Workspace app 1905

Yesterday Citrix released several new versions of their software

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1906 (formerly XenApp)

Download: https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops/product-software/citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops-1906.html
What’s new: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/whats-new.html

Examples of new features:
  • Several Command-Line changes
  • Citrix Director Session Auto Reconnect Logging
  • Optimization for Microsoft Teams

Continue reading “New Citrix Software as of June 2019: CVAD 1906, WEM 1906 and Workspace app 1905”