What's new and upcoming with Citrix technology and features

Previously, Machine Creation Services (MCS) supported single NIC on Azure. With this feature, you can now create a VM with multiple NICs. You can add or delete NICs based on the maximum number of NICs supported by the VM size. Additionally, the NIC assignment on existing VMs can also be updated.

Citrix has support for adding Custom Access administrators through Google Identity. 

This enhancement adds support for preparing and publishing images to VMware vSphere, from other cloud or on-prem environments.

Citrix Secure Access client now supports single sign-on for the Workspace URL when already logged in via Citrix Workspace app. This SSO functionality enhances the user experience by avoiding multiple authentications.

Introduces role-based access controls to permit granular assignment of roles for various functions within App Layering. This feature is now available in App Layering 2306: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-app-layering/4/whats-new.html#app-layering-2306-this-release 

Events for network locations are now available in System Log.

We have introduced a new version of OData API (via API gateway) that provides better resiliency and governance and has more computing resources to function efficiently. Customers can leverage this new Citrix Monitor Service data API for troubleshooting and triaging real time sessions and build dashboards using this data set. This new API supports pagination, aggregation queries on the Citrix Monitor Service data. This feature is not available in OData Version 3 or earlier. Read more

Citrix Analytics Add-On for Splunk Now Available on Splunk Cloud Platform Splunk Integration for Citrix Analytics utilizes Citrix Analytics Add-On for Splunk to connect to the analytics environment and bring in business critical data into your Splunk Environment. With the latest version Add-on version 2.1.2, customers have the flexibility to choose between Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud while considering the deployment of our add-on to facilitate Splunk integration. For more information, see Splunk Integration.

Support for policy global action - Notify End User  The Policies & Actions feature in Citrix Analytics now supports the Notify End User Global Action which can be paired with built-in or custom risk indicator trigger(s). This action can be utilized for a variety of compliance use cases such as notifying the users for unsanctioned application usage, or alerting for suspicious behavior on their Citrix accounts without taking any disruptive actions.  For more information, see Notify End User.

In Azure environments, you can now use private endpoints to restrict access to disk contents. This implementation helps you to securely access data over a private link.