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The new current releases of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Workspace Environament Management & Citrix Provisioning are now available. They contains many new features compared to the last LTSR.
In the past months, I have had to deploy Microsoft Teams and OneDrive from the Office365 portfolio in Citrix environments, in addition to the standard office applications in numerous projects.
The standard installation, that the user can perform through the Office365 portal, is a user-based installation. In a Citrix environment, this is only recommended for desktop operating systems (pooled or personal desktop).
A user-based installation can be detected very quickly in the User Profile, since data is then located under AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams.
This type of installation in a worker with server operating system has many disadvantages:
A few days ago, Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Version 1912 was published. Below an introduction to WEM and a guide to upgrade to version 1912.
Workspace Environment Management is a Performance Management and UEM (User Environment Management) tool from Citrix. It is licensed to all customers with Virtual Apps/Virtual Desktop Advanced and Premium (formerly XenApp/XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum) Versions, as well as an active customer success services.
The new Long Term Service Release of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is now available. It contains many new features compared to the last Current Release and of course more regarding the last LTSR.
The following new features have been added compared to the last current release.
Update of the article to the Workspace Environment Management Version 1906.
In the fourth (and last) part of the series about the WEM Administration Console, I give you an insight into the menu items Administration & Monitoring.
These settings control administrative functions such as delegation, user statistics, and change logging.
