Update: (1th October 2020) My friend @mbp_netscaler told me he tried with newly released Office 16.43 it fixes the issue with Citrix. So it was not Citrix fault but the bug was with Microsoft, interesting 🙂 but happy to share its working With Citrix Files latest release.
I have today found out a major bug in Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) with OS Windows 10 Multisession version 2004. After helping a client with expanding some FSlogix storage, I saw there was some important patches for OS (CU) and some security patches, its always recommended to apply these patches, as you will gain performance and stability and improve security.
But after applying these CU, I ran into a very strange problem that when you login to the Multisession host from any WVD client, the Windows screen flicker and keep updating in the GUI and you couldn’t do anything not click anything inside the desktop. After some research on the web, I saw other people facing the same issue with as I saw. The interesting part was that Pieter Wigleven from Microsoft, confirm this bug and that the Microsoft Search team will solve this part in future builds of Windows.
UPDATE 22TH SEPTEMBER 2020
FROM PIETER WIGLEVEN, MICROSOFTThis specific issue only impacts Windows 10 Enterprise/multi-session version 2004 and the fix is currently scheduled for release in the third week of October 2020.Â
In that third week of October - if you manually click the “Check for Updates” button you will get it.
If you won't check manually, you’ll receive this bugfix in November's Patch Tuesday (second week of the month).
VMware have released a new version of VMware Horizon 8 (2006), and this release is for now general available from August 2020. This is a major release, so I hope you like this article I put together. VMware have made some huge improvements in this release, which customers/partners are going to benefit from.
HINT – If you are using Nvidia vGPU (on-prem) I highly recommend you upgrade to NVIDIA vGPU 11, as this is supporting VMware Horizon 8 (2006). I have in this article also included the new features of Horizon Cloud service for IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure.
Lets dig into what is new.
What is new in VMware Horizon 8 (2006)
VMware Horizon 8 provides the following new features and enhancements
VMware Horizon Connection Server On-Premises
VMware Horizon Agent for Linux
VMware Horizon Agent for Windows
VMware Horizon GPO Bundle
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager 2006
VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.10
VMware Horizon Clients 2006 for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac, Windows, HTML Access
VMware Horizon Cloud services:
VMware Horizon Cloud Service v3 (Azure, AWS, On-prem)
Hi all, today I presented at the first online Microsoft Meet Community event around Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) which was organised by Christiaan Brinkhoff + Microsoft. Thank you all for participating my session, I understood there was 1.000+ participants so that is awesome, wish I could see you all like the “good old” 2019 conferences way, but hey its Covid times and its better to be safe home. As promised in my session I would share my slides they are available to download here:
I put together 76 slides, so hopefully you learned a lot and can use my slides in your work. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or need help with WVD.
/Thomas Poppelgaard Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in WVD/RDS