Workspace Control 2022.1 (10.8.0.1)

This section includes new features, compatibility updates, improvements and bug fixes from previous Workspace Control versions, starting with Workspace Control 2021.2 (10.7.10.0) and up to version 2022.1 (10.8.0.1).

What's New

Ivanti Ideas Feature Requests

The following user requests have been addressed in this version of Workspace Control:

New Enhancements and Improvements

The following enhancements and/or improvements are part of this version of Workspace Control:

Bug Fixes

The following customer support issues have been resolved in this release:

Problem ID Title

Internal finding

When changing Workspace Control environments and enabling the Cloud Relay feature in the new environment, Workspace Control Agents that have their Datastore connection changed to inherited from any other setting fail to correctly apply the new configuration.

Internal finding

In a specific scenario, the Cloud Relay connection wizard tries to register on the Cloud Relay back-end with an incorrect account ID and registration key.

Internal finding

After upgrading to Workspace Control version 10.7.20.0, the Workspace Designer fails to import DTS sample files.

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Internal finding

A locally authenticated user with low privileges can obtain key information due to an unspecified attack vector.

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Internal finding

In the Workspace Control Console, under Setup > Ivanti Products > Ivanti Neurons for Edge Intelligence > Settings tab, changes made to how Workspace Control downloads and installs the Ivanti Neurons Agent are not saved another Workspace Control node is selected.

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Internal finding

Workspace Control Agents are blocked when connecting to the Datastore using a Relay Server if the Authorized Owners feature is enabled. The feature is found in the Workspace Control Console, under Security > Authorized Owners.

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Internal finding

The Workspace Control Agent service continues to restart when the pwrcache.exe process tries to store encrypted connection information in the Windows registry without knowing what encryption key to use.

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Internal finding

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2022.1 version 10.7.30.1, Building Blocks that include the Ivanti Identity Director integration were sometimes exported with the encrypted Identity Director publication password containing invalid XML characters. Importing these Building Blocks in the Workspace Control Console resulted in an incorrect publication password.

74754

If the Citrix XenApp Publishing integration is enabled in the Workspace Control Console, applications that point to network drives or shares take a long time to remotely publish. The publishing process can time out and generate the following error: Publish remote FAILED for farm '<Farm name>' on <Publishing Server> - Timeout occurred waiting for task ready.

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74895

The Workspace Control splash screen becomes unresponsive for up to 10 seconds while loading license information. This occurs when a user logs both onto a session running Windows Desktop OS and a Microsoft RDS-based session. Both sessions need to be managed by Workspace Control and the machines on which the user logs on must be both connected to the same Datastore.

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76686

Logging into a Workspace Control managed RDP session or Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop session on Microsoft Windows Server machines results in a black screen during the login process.

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76917

Microsoft TS RemoteApp Server Groups are not correctly updated in the Workspace Control Console. They are visible under Setup > Integration > Application Virtualization > Microsoft TS RemoteApp, in the right-side pane, under the Server Groups tab. This occurs in the following conditions:

  • The Microsoft TS RemoteApp Integration is enabled in the Workspace Control Console.

  • Multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host Servers are simultaneously added to a Remote Desktop Service Collection group using the Add RD Session Host Servers task under Server Manager > Remote Desktop Services > Collections in Microsoft Windows Server operating systems.

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76927

Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) to machines that have an active Workspace Control managed session result in failure.

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77179

Sometimes, when opening the Workspace Control Console, the following error occurs: Connection to primary database could not be established. Connection could not be established. Invalid connection string attribute. Login failed for user <username>.
Reopening the Workspace Control Console fixes the issue.

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77668

After configuring Date and Time Access Control restrictions to allow access to websites only during specific time intervals using the Only allow access on option, websites are still accessible outside the defined restrictions until a Workspace Refresh is performed.

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77891

When publishing a new Managed Application to Citrix XenDesktop using the Workspace Control Console, the following error occurs: Workspace Control Console failed to publish the application to the following farms: <farmname> - Unknown error while publishing.

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77963

After creating a new Citrix administrator account with the same Active Directory access and Citrix role as the previous administrator account, and configuring the new administrator in the Workspace Control Console, the following error occurs when publishing a new managed application to Citrix XenDesktop: Workspace Control Console failed to publish the application to the following farms: <farmname> - Unknown error while publishing.

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78258

Logging onto a VMware Horizon View session from a Workspace Control managed session results in the Horizon View session to claim a separate Workspace Control license, instead of using the license present in the Workspace Control session on the local client.

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86093

When Workspace Control is configured to manage Citrix Published Applications using Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, and there are over 150 Citrix Delivery Groups in the environment, results in the Citrix Delivery Groups to go missing after some time elapses.

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86141

After a virtual machine is re-imaged and it keeps its name, setting up a new Workspace Control Agent on the machine can result in duplicate Agent entries in the Workspace Control Console, under Administration > Agents. This occurs if, under the Settings tab, the option Identify Agents by is set to Computer domain name and NetBIOS name.

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86324

When Read-Only Blanketing is enabled in the Workspace Control Console, under Security > Data > Read-Only Blanketing, and Tracing is also enabled, various Workspace Control components are blocked from writing in the trace file by Read-Only Blanketing.

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86332

When Workspace Control is set up to manage Citrix Published Applications in an environment with over 150 Citrix Delivery Groups, if configuration changes within the Workspace Control product required the Citrix Published Application to be unpublished first, the following error occurs: Workspace Control Console failed to unpublish the application. Please remove the published application manually from the following farms: Unknown error while publishing.

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86374

In Workspace Control managed sessions running on Microsoft Windows 10 21H1, if the option Windows Shell shortcut creation is set to Replace all unmanaged shortcuts in the Workspace Control Console, under Composition > Applications > Settings tab, an unmanaged Microsoft Edge icon remains present on the taskbar.

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86669

Starting the Restore User Settings wizard as application from the Start Menu, after another application was already opened and its window maximized, results in the wizard to not launch into focus and remains hidden behind the maximized application. The wizard's icon is visible on the taskbar.

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86855

Workspace Refresh is performed twice if the AdminRefreshWhenOnline registry setting is configured to update the Active Directory group membership of Workspace Control Agents, and a Workspace Refresh is also configured to trigger when the Connection State of Workspace Control Agents changes from Offline to Online.

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87027

When the Windows PowerShell is used to display custom Toast message to end users, the message is not shown if in the Workspace Control Console, under Composition > Applications > Settings tab, option Windows Shell shortcut creation is set to Replace all unmanaged shortcuts. This option can also be configured on Workspace Containers.

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87057

After upgrading to Workspace Control 10.5.10.1, configuring Workspace Control to use Microsoft Active Directory (in the Workspace Control Console, under User Context > Directory Services), can result in session login times to increase. This occurs when configuration items (such as zones, applications, drive and port mappings, and more) are based on Active Directory groups.

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87507

Using Citrix StoreBrowse to start managed published applications in Published Desktop sessions on newly installed Published Desktop hosts, results in the following error: Application can't be started Instant passthrough could not be resolved.

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87563

Workspace Control Reporting Services fail to retrieve data from Workspace Control Agents after an installation or upgrade is done to the Agents.

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87612

When Windows Explorer is configured with any valid parameter as a Workspace Control managed application, a duplicate of the application shortcut is created on the taskbar of the Workspace Control Agent after the end-user signs out and signs in again. This occurs when running Workspace Control version 10.6.0.0 or higher on Microsoft Windows 10 build 20H2 or higher.

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87627

When launching Workspace Control Usage Tracking Viewer, the splash screen displays an incorrect version of the product. The Usage Tracking Viewer is started from the Workspace Control Console, under Diagnostics > Usage Tracking Overview > Settings tab > Start viewer.

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87629

In a specific scenario, RD Broker collections that contains a single RD host are emptied after the RD host is restarted. This impacts application publishing using Workspace Control. Details on the specific scenario are found in the KB article.

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87700

If the Workspace Control Console is configured to use another language than English, navigating to Setup > Ivanti Products > Neurons for Edge Intelligence, results in the following error: Prog: pwrtech.exe Procedure: frm\WSIntelConfig.LoadSettings Error: (383) 'Text' property is read-only Machine: <Machine name>.

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87746

When the user mouse settings are configured to be captured globally using the Mouse Settings template and restored at the start of the Workspace Control session, the mouse settings are applied, but are not active.

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87773

After installing or upgrading to Workspace Control 2021.1 Service Update 1 (10.6.40.0), pwrcache.exe stops working on machines running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7.

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87781

Using Citrix Workspace App version 2109, Citrix published applications that are configured as Workspace Control managed applications fail to start and Workspace Control returns the following error: Application can't be started... (Instant Passthru could not resolved). This occurs if the Citrix StoreBrowse command-line utility is configured to start managed published applications.

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87839

When starting a machine, the first communication between the pfwsmgr.exe and res.exe processes during sign-in results in the following error being logged in the Workspace Control Console, under Diagnostics > Errors: Error (0) — Message could not be parsed (see trace file for details).

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87862

Configuring a Workspace Control managed application with Use the User Settings from the following application, results in the following error during sign-in: Error id = -2146233079 Error description = The collection has been changed. The inventory operation may not be performed.

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87970

When multiple Directory Services are configured in the Workspace Control Console, under User Context > Directory Services, retrieving Workspace Analysis information for user sessions from Diagnostics > User Sessions takes longer than expected.

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87986

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2021.2 version 10.7.20.0, the following error occurs when using a Designated Windows Account to connect to the Datastore: Workspace Control Console - Failed to connect to database.

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88135

In Workspace Control 2021.2 version 10.7.20.0, starting a Citrix Published Applications session results in the session being immediately signed out.

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88201

In a specific scenario, when the Microsoft Remote Assistance integration is configured in the Workspace Control Console, the local security group is not updated with the group(s) configured for Remote Assistance.

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88263

After upgrading to Workspace Control version 10.6.30.0 or higher, the MonitorEndProgram registry setting does not work on Windows operating systems using Norwegian.

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88408

Running PowerShell scripts on Building Blocks XML files that include the Ivanti Identity Director integration and were created using Workspace Control 2021.2 version 10.7.20.0 or higher, results in error.

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88445

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2022.1 version 10.7.30.1, it was possible to start unmanaged applications that were configured as blocked.

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