Workspace Control 2022.1 (10.8.10.0)

This section covers new features, enhancements, improvements, compatibility updates and bug fixes included in this version of Workspace Control.

What's New

Ivanti Ideas Feature Requests

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

The Audit Trail now displays details regarding configuration changes made to the Workspace Control environment. For example, when new environment variables or managed applications are created, when the configuration of an already existing Workspace Container is modified, or when deleting Website Rules. These changes are shown in different colors depending on their nature.

Audit Trail details are found in the Workspace Control Console, under Diagnostics > Audit Trail. Open an entry by double-clicking on it. In the Properties window, select Show details.

In the Audit Trail Details window, newly added items or settings are displayed using green text. Settings that have been changed are displayed using blue text and their previous value is shown in parentheses. Removed items or settings are displayed using red text.

From the Audit Trail Details window, export the item's previous configuration to a Building Block by selecting Export original configuration to building block. A previous configuration is the configuration that was before the changes currently listed in the Audit Trails Details window were made.

More details about this User Voice Feature Request are found on Ivanti Ideas.

User session event logs now show logoff events. When the Workspace Control managed session is closed on a Workspace Control Agent, the events associated with the session logoff process are written to the event log for that session.

Event logs are found in the Workspace Control Console, under Diagnostics > User Sessions. The right-side pane displays on overview of the currently active Workspace Control managed user sessions. Open a user session by double-clicking on it. In the Workspace Analysis window for the selected user session, navigate to Diagnostics > Event Log and select a log.

More details about this User Voice Feature Request are found on Ivanti Ideas.

New Enhancements and Improvements

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

Logon Performance displays statistics regarding Workspace Control session logons. If the feature is enabled, Workspace Control Agents send logon information to the Datastore when a Workspace Control managed session is started. The feature is found in the Workspace Control Console, under Diagnostics > Logon Performance.

Logon performance information can now be exported to a CSV file, either using the Workspace Control Console, or using the pwrtech command line. For more details, see the Workspace Control Administration Guide.

In the Workspace Control Console, under Administration > Relay Servers, you can configure the default behavior of Relay Servers and you can see what Relay Servers are installed and connected to the current Workspace Control environment.

Relay Server information found under the Relay Servers tab can now be exported to a CSV file. For more details, see the Workspace Control Administration Guide.

Datastore maintenance must be performed at regular intervals. This default maintenance allows you to remove references in the Datastore, to remove users that no longer exist, to check license locks and to clean up or clear log files. Datastore maintenance can be done from the Workspace Control Console, under Administration > Maintenance.

The results for the following maintenance tasks can now be exported as TXT files:

  • Search for non-existing users

  • Verify SIDs for groups and users

For more details, see the Workspace Control Administration Guide.

In the latest versions of the Microsoft operating systems, the feature Fast Connect might not work as expected. In multi-tenant environments, this can result in the locking of the User Accounts. This is resolved by configuring the AddDeferFlagsDuringFastConnect registry setting.

Create the following string value to set the value of the DeferFlags registry setting to 4 during session sign-in. This applies only to mapped drives configured with the Fast Connect option.

Key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\RES\Workspace Manager

Value

AddDeferFlagsDuringFastConnect

Type

REG_SZ

Data

Yes

For more details, see the Workspace Control Administration Guide.

Minor translation improvements were made to the Workspace Control Console for the following languages:

  • Danish

  • Dutch

  • German

The default name of the RESTracelog log file was changed to IWCTracelog. The default name can be changed to something else, as desired by the Workspace Control administrator.

Bug Fixes

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

Problem ID Title

Internal finding

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2021.2 version 10.7.10.0 or higher, the Object column of the Audit Trail did not show details for events where the Website Security setting was changed. Website Security is configured in the Workspace Control Console, under Security > Applications > Websites > Settings tab.

Internal finding

Sometimes, when the Cloud Relay feature is first enabled, or disabled and then re-enabled, the following error may occur after receiving the Ivanti Cloud Relay has been enabled confirmation message: Failed to retrieve account settings. After navigating to another node and then back to the Administration > Cloud Relay node, everything works as expected.

86109

User settings synchronization does not start when User Settings caching is set to Cache locally at sign-in, during the session, and at sign-out, unless otherwise specified, and the UserSettingsSyncIntervalOnly registry setting is configured. User Setting caching is configured in the Workspace Control Console, under Composition > User Settings > Settings tab.

More details in the following KB article.

86995

Shutting down Workspace Control managed sessions running on Microsoft Windows 10 sometimes, under rare circumstances, results in a restart instead.

More details in the following KB article.

87223

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2021.1 version 10.6.40.0 or higher, changes to the icon size of desktop items are not saved between Workspace Control managed sessions. In the Workspace Control Console, under Composition > User Settings, the following template is used to capture and restore desktop icon size settings: Windows > 10/2016/2019 > Control Panel > Desktop and Start Menu Layout.

More details in the following KB article.

88362

When an E-mail Setting is used to provide e-mail configuration for Microsoft Outlook, starting a Workspace Control managed instance of Outlook in a Workspace Control managed session, results in the following SetMAPI error: Access to path: C:\users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\RES\WM\Session#\pwmXXXX.tmp has been denied.

More details in the following KB article.

88407

Sometimes, the Workspace Control Agent cache is not updated immediately, if configured, on machines running Remote Desktop Services 2019. The Agent cache update interval is configured using Update agent cache on change, found in the Workspace Control Console, under Administration > Agents > Settings tab.

More details in the following KB article.

88489

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2021.1 version 10.6.30.2 or higher, Workspace ControlFile Types associations are applied during user sign-in, but are then overwritten by the operating system which applies its default file associations.

More details in the following KB article.

88540

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2021.1 version 10.6.20.0 or higher, triggering a Relay ServerForce Cache Update results in the following error: Failed to force cache update on these Workspace Control Relay Servers: <name of Relay Server>.

More details in the following KB article.

88606

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2022.1 version 10.8.0.0, not all translations are applied in Workspace Preferences or Printing Preferences. These settings are found in end-user sessions, in the Start Menu, under Workspace Control settings.

More details in the following KB article.

88732

After upgrading to Workspace Control 2020.0 version 10.5.20.0 or higher, if the Citrix Receiver is configured for two or more Citrix Sites, then Citrix Published Applications cannot be enumerated for the second site onward when Citrix StoreBrowse is used.

More details in the following KB article.

88777

Citrix Published Applications set to Autolaunch at session start trigger several errors during session logon, followed by the logoff of the Workspace Control managed session. Autolaunch at session start is configured under Properties > Settings tab when editing application properties.

More details in the following KB article.