Citrix Cloud Updates

Released in Q4 2022, Image Portability Service now supports preparing on-premises Machine Creation Services and Provisioning Services images to run in AWS.

The App Layering management console is being redesigned and modernized to no longer require Silverlight or Internet Explorer, to support modern browsers and plugins, and more.

Previously, you could use only VMs as machine profiles. You can now use ARM template specs as machine profiles as well when creating Azure machine catalogs. This feature lets you take advantage of Azure ARM template features such as versioning. To ensure that the selected spec is configured correctly and contains required configurations, we perform validation on it. If the validation fails, you are prompted to select a different machine profile.

Using Workspace and Gateway Service, this feature allows you to automatically establish a secure direct link from the client to the VDA when direct communication is available. For additional information, refer to the HDX Direct documentation.

Global App Configuration Service will allow administrators to test the settings before rolling it out to all users. This feature allows to resolve any issues before applying the Global App configurations to the entire user base.

Now, SPA admins can directly configure multiple applications at once by running API calls or CSV import/export functionality within SPA. 

The App-V node is renamed to App Packages and redesigned to accommodate more types of Microsoft packaged apps. Previously, you had to use the discovery module to add App-V apps to Citrix Cloud for delivery. You can now add and deliver App-V apps in one place by using the App Packages node.

Unlike traditional load scores which purely look at resource usage and miss fire warnings of high load when genuine resource intensive applications are launched by users. Citrix Analytics has devised a new Machine Load Indicator Score which calibrates for user-experience and shows a score from 0 to 100 indicating how utilized your Citrix VDA/VDI machines are. And allowing you to shut or close those machines which are perpetually under-utilized or expand capacity where machines are heavily utilized.

The Session Recording service lets you subscribe to email notifications to notify specific recipients about resource usage alerts, server status changes, and the results of automated tasks for archiving and deleting recordings.

This feature grants the ability to check end user's device posture using Endpoint Protection via CrowdStrike. This information can be used to provide Contextual access into Citrix Workspace.