Version 4.4.1.1:  All these fixes, features, and/or improvements are included in this version.

What's new:

• Quick Config Setup:
  • Compatible with Windows Server 2019 (physical and virtual servers)
  • Compatible with Citrix CVAD 1912
  • Compatible with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019
  • Compatible with SQL Server 2019
  • Storefront is installed from included CVAD media
  • New look and file on deployment progress bar view

Version 4.4.1:  All these fixes, features, and/or improvements are included in this version.

Improvements

• Quick Config Setup:
  • Improve look and feel of ServicesStatus (progress bar) page

Fixed issues

• 4398 Some elements of the top menu overlap in Quick Config Setup 4.4.0
• 3046 Some deployments in specific Countries show AADSTS50076 error due to Azure security policy

RuntimeException: Cannot connect to Azure. AADSTS50076: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '797f4846-ba00-4fd7-ba43-dac1f8f63013'.

Version 4.4:  All these fixes, features and/or improvements are included in this version.

What's new:

• New firmware (MDT) 4.3 for VMware appliances: link.
• Download a credentials file to import KeePass (before starting deployment).
• Improve Windows Update tasks to use local scripts (no Internet required).
• Use provided NTP, public or private, in both Hypervisors: VMware and HyperV.
• New look and feel:
  • Join both Active Directory views.
  • Show estimated time of execution in validation process.
  • Support feature in Control Panel. Generate log data to create support ticket or send out by email.
  • You can print summary information before start deployment.
  • Define IP address range and QCS use it to assign IP address to Virtual Machines.
  • Allow to change local Administrator password in VCC Roles. Cistec request.
• During deployment you can see current actions and previous steps.

Improvements:

• Improve VMware deployment experience after Marina deployment:
  • Transfer VLAN id from vSwitch to DSwitch during VMware deployment
  • Check HP VID disk in cleanup phase in MDT ESXi
  • Detect storage devices (SD Card, USB, NVMe and Temporary datastore) in HP Model during MDT ESXi
• Clean temporary folders after successful deployment and Quick actions execution.
• Quick Config Setup shows VMM detailed installation error from VMMLogs.
• Modify Control Panel to negotiate with TLS 1.2 by default.
• Upgrade AzureRM PowerShell Module to Az Module. Suite requirement.
• Install Tahoma Windows font. Suite requirement.
• Control Panel:
  • Show vCenter and VMM license expiration
• Quick Config Setup:
  • Split QCS Help articles by views (tabs).
  • Split FEC articles (one article per FEC error).
  • Encrypt QCS configuration files

Fixed issues:

• 784  Cannot see failed step when network check fails (Check remote access): After changing IPs, a network check is triggered. If any step fails, list disappears and only failure message is shown while if it succeeds, list is kept and a message is added. 
• 1921 When reboot secondary compute node S2D volume is detached
• 2653 QCS show password in form if it is updated from previous 4.X version
• 2176 Add tag VMs fails because scvmm role is not started: During deployment VMM cluster role didn’t start randomly and some VMM actions failed.
• 2177 XenDesktop Licensing Snapin installation fails randomly
• 2717 VMware deployment fails if only has one infrastructure NIC Quick Config Setup validate that there are two Infrastructure NICs up and at least one Storage NIC up.
• 2720 Switch off first node in VMware shows inaccessible Control Panel
• 2721 Do not allow switch off vCenter from Control Panel
• 2724 VM uptime is not reset after a reboot in VMware environments
• 2729 Deployment fails because failover cluster on flxvmm01 is stopped
• 2754 Deployment fails to link GPOs in Mixed deplyoment if BaseOU name is repeated in Active Directory
• 2770 Power actions to physical appliances failes in VMware
• 2771 Cannot Restart/Shutdown a paused node in vmware If there are two or less appliance (alive) Control Panel doesn’t allow to reboot or shutdown an appliance.
• 2784  Sometimes deploy does not start or deployment progress hangs and never finishes
• 2786  Some special characters in password induce deployment error with not clear information Created a whitelist character supported by 3rd party solutions used by Quick Config Setup (included Infra software)
• 2801 Control Panel updated successfully but reported both OK and KO
• 2821 Timezone detection does not work on IExplore
• 2822 Deployment fails with WinRMAuthentication error
• 2859 Configuring vSAN step fails if disks are not clean
• 2922 Drain compute nodes could never finish if state is not 'Paused'
• 2930 Boolean values are not preloaded
• 2931 Image MimeTypes forces a specific extension
• 2937 Validate DevModeValues before writing file (Internal)
• 2938 Check if Updater succeeded in Quick Config Setup
• 2942 SSL3 in enabled by default in Quick Config Setup
• 2949 If Quick Config Setup deployment page is not opened, deployment never ends
• 2980 Enable customerdc01 hostname for Full Deployment
• 2995 Increase timeout for Active Directory Full Integration validation After feedback provided in lasts deployments we increase Active Directory validations and therefore timeout
• 3014 Delegate Organization Unit fails if there are more than 1 OU with same name
• 3023 CNAME records are not created in VMware
• 3047  When Release Notes are not available Contol Panel does not work
• 3166  Deployments with Hyper-V HA fails because SQLNative Client is not installed
• 3414 vCenter DNS register does not show error if fails with Limited permissions.
• 3447  Control panel shows blank page after deployment

Version 4.3:  All these fixes, features and/or improvements are included in this version.

What's new:

• Deployment with non-Admin rights: in that version, you can deploy QCS with a user with limited permissions (Domain Admins right is not required). See the following articles for more information:
  • Required limited permissions for Full Integration deployments: link.
  • Required limited permissions for Mixed Deployments: link.
• Hardware compatibility: new compatible hardware. Please, see HCL article in the help portal.
• Allow to use private DNS instead of public DNS: required for networks with provided public DNS queries.
• Allow to use private NTP: required to sync time and date with Azure.
• New NetScaler version is deployed with Quick Action: apply the new Citrix NetScaler (ADC) version with patch CVE-2019-19781.

Improvements:

• Quick Config Setup:
  • Improve look and feel.
  • Non-Admin rights validations:
    • Validate the trusted relationships.
    • Validate DNS records
  • Control Panel:
    • Quick Action NetScaler: Adapt to new Let’s Encrypt version.
    • Quick Action Inform password allows to update credentials with all kind of AD integrations.

Fixed issues:

• DNS records creation process does not show an error when action fails.
• Deployment fails when try to configure max memory consumption in SQL Server.
• Quick Actions layout is broken after execution.
• Quick Action download log process fails randomly.
• Restart Deployment triggered after Service restart.
• Local Administrator password (in VCC roles) is not provided in Full Integration deployments.
• QCS deployment progress hangs and never finishes.
• AD Integration validation fails if the provided user doesn't have rights in an Active Directory forest with different domains.
• Resume always fails when trying to resume the 'Configuring vSAN' step.
• SQL Servers doesn't install Windows update task.

Version 4.2.1: All these fixes, features and/or improvements are included in this version. 

New features:

• Installing and configuring VMware 6.7 U2 automatically: including vCenter (VCSA) and vSAN.
• Firmware new version: install and configure ESXi automatically.
  • SSH service is disabled by default.
• Quick Config Setup:
  • Prompt for prefix+suffix to generate hostnames automatically.

Improvements:

• Quick Config Setup:
  • Hostname in XenDesktop license validation.
  • Add a reference to Postrequeriments after deploy succeeded.
• Control Panel:
  • Add "What's new" in Control Panel to check all previous release notes.
  • Add additional information in the 'General information' tab in Control Panel:
    • General information view:
      • Listeners
      • Active Directory groups
      • Hypervisor & storage
      • Network definition
      • Include Release notes
    • Dissolve Infrastructure clusters into existing tabs
• Infrastructure:
  • Upgrade VMware Tools during VM creation.
  • Register the SUITE web server on the auto-update component.

Fixed issues:

• Quick actions:
  • Quick actions Netscaler fails with error 'Validate DNS failed'.
  • Quick actions Storefront Cannot show 'favorites' after hiding it.
  • The execution process does not download quick action execution error content.
  • Quick action ends with an error when synchronizing data bags
• Quick Config Setup:
  • Quick Config Setup suggests some invalid hostnames when upgrading from     3.2.0.29.
  • Active Directory validations fail if two Domain Controllers are specified (AD Integration tab).
  • Account Lockout Threshold is not enabled if Mixed deployment is specified.
  • Configuration summary email shows incorrect information about Database listeners.
  • Deploy shows error in "Configuring Flexxible|Suite DB" when changing DNS Name default value.
  • Deployment fails when import GPOs if specified Domain Controller is not Primary Domain Controller (PDC).
  • Deployment creates duplicate WMI filters if they exist.
  • User cannot choose to reuse AD groups when integrating an existing AD
  • SQL maintenance creation task fails if previously exist.
  • Upgrade VMware Tools step fails randomly.
  • Add new required checkbox to confirm prerequisites are met
  • VCC Roles cannot load in MD/FI due to NullReferenceException
  • Control Panel shows "The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure"
  • Proposed delivery controller hostname is incorrect and read-only
• Infrastructure:
  • Email configured in SQL maintenance tasks is incorrect.
  • Randomly deployment fails connecting to the SCVMM cluster due to CredSSP error.
  • Get SD Card Allocated Size can Fail in VMware Appliances
  • Install SCVMM Console (+ RollUp) on Flexxible|Orchestrators (Workers)
  • Deployment fails during the flxvmm02 install when configuring Logical Networks.
  • Deployment fails during the VDIClientService install because the resource is not found.
  • Randomly deployment fails when trying to add an additional disk to VM
  • SCVMM requirements are not installed (SQL Native Client)

Known issues:

• Post-Deployment tasks are updated with last changes (Post-Deployment Tasks).

Version 4.1: All these fixes, features and/or improvements are included in this version. 

New features:

• During Quick Config Setup (QCS) you can select import or not Flexxible GPOs.
• Now you can rename Group Managed Service Accounts(GMSA) and Active Directory groups and accounts.
• Full Integration deployment can deploy second roles from scratch including SQL Server Std Cluster (Quick action Second roles is deprecated).
• SQL Server maintenance plans (backup) are configured automatically.
• Quick Config Setup (QCS) can deploy infrastructure over VMware 6.7 U1. *Only for FI deployments.
• Update VCC Roles previews for VMWare in Control Panel.
• QCS notification emails are sent through the Web App to avoid firewall blocking traffic.
• Setup Active Directory DNS to Control Panel VM instead of public DNS to resolve DNS records.
• Create maintenance plans in SQLServer.
• Quick actions:
  • ‘Modify General information’.
  • Fix Control Panel hostname: solve the issue with Control Panel 3.2.0.28 or earlier.

Improvements:

• Quick Config Setup:
  • Timezone is automatically detected.
  • Deploy two or more QCS in same Active Directory.
• Control Panel:
  • Control Panel doesn't allow restart compute nodes if the node is in draining state o S2D volume is not healthy.
  • Add EULA data in General information.
  • Add Netscaler data provided by Quick action in General Information.
• Secure RDP to avoid Ransomware.
• Improve Active Directory validations (GMSA, GPOs, groups, accounts, etc).
• Validate NTP configuration on ESXi and vCenter in ‘Check appliance’ section.
• Install SCVMM Rollup 6 by default on HyperV deployments.
• Detect if Storage Spaces Direct cluster nodes have a pending reboot before creating the cluster.
• Validate WMI authentication in compute nodes before creating Storage Spaces Direct cluster (S2D).
• Install VDIClientService in Domain Controllers created by QCS.
• Add more information in the General section in Control Panel.
• Download KB2999226 to create templates Windows 8 or early (SUITE requirement).
• Install the vCenter certificate in all Flexxible web servers during deployment.

Fixed issues:

• Quick Config Setup sends a summary email when clicking on the finish even if there is a problem.
• Notification email completed process won't send out if the browser is closed during deployment.
• Don't allow the restart of compute node if the node is in draining state o S2D volume is not healthy.
• Active Directory validation shows 'Domain Controller specified must be Global Catalog' on Mixed deployment when base OU does not exist.
• Deployment fails when selecting a time zone that Windows does not allow.
• Lock/unlock QCS after starting the deployment.
• QCS show partially error.
• Control Panel does not show resources from VCC Roles section.
• Quick actions execution output message format is not clear.
• Timezone detection fails in DST.
• Quick action Netscaler failed with "File not found error" because iso file does not exist.
• Creation S2D Cluster always fails if the first execution shows the error.
• QA NetScaler Validations Ports Fail.
• Deployment shows an error if FlexxibleVDIServices has more than 20 chars.
• Allow stopping zooming VCC Roles previews.
• 'Download log' does not download quick action execution error content.
• Quick action ends with an error when synchronizing data bags.

Known issues:

• After the Quick Config Setup finish, it's necessary to change SMTP server configuration (Post-Deployment Tasks).
• In VMware deployments, you have to create the Citrix redirection policies manually (Post-Deployment Tasks).

Version 4.0.5: All these fixes, features and/or improvements are included in this version.

• Add Failover Cluster optimizations.
• Disable monitor timeout - Requirement for VCC Roles tab.
• Improve security policy:
  • Disable SMB v1 with packer.
  • Apply Update CU KB4103720.
  • AzureRM last version.
• Change Windows version from the datacenter to standard in virtual machines.
• Unify Azure repository for Suite installation.
• Flexxible Error Codes (FEC).
• Improve stability of Quick action NetScaler and Second roles.
• New UI interface.
• Now DHCP range is validated.
• Detect Timezone on the Information section.
• Add zoom feature on preview VCC Roles.
• On Mixed Deployment base OU can be modified.
• Every Quick action has step by step guide.

Version 4.0.1.9: All these fixes, features and/or improvements are included in this version.

Improvements:

• Setup hostname on infrastructure VMs: compute nodes, domain controllers (resource domain) and infrastructure.
• Disable SMBv1 in all VMs (including compute nodes).
• Enable sa on SQL Servers.
• Create CNAME DNS record to improve migration between SQL Servers.
• Quick Config Setup: simplify fields (remove redundant CIDR and gateways fields).
• Configure backup SQL with gMSA instead of AD account.
• Copy SQL backups to soft resource (\\flxsofs\backupsql).
• Homogenize Active Directory validations: base OU must be provided by the user and must exist.
• Now Active Directory validations check if all Domain Controllers has SMBv1 disabled (more secure).

Fixed issues:

Quick Config Setup & Control Panel:

• Quick Config Setup: pin to unfold summary is not always on top.
• Quick action branding doesn't show the correct information.
• Quick Config Setup: update help portal broken links.
• Quick Config Setup: fix the issue of sending the summary email when sorting elements.
• Control Panel: credential for Suite showed has domain name instead of NetBIOS name (authentication error).
• Control Panel: Fix preview in VCC Roles.

Infrastructure:

• The BackupSQL scheduled task fails with Full Integration environments (no trusted relationship).
• The Active Directory validation never finishes if the first execution fails.