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February 2025

Feb 27

Create Microsoft Entra Joined and Microsoft Intune enrolled catalogs with prepared images

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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
With this feature, you can now use prepared images to create Microsoft Entra Joined and Microsoft Intune enrolled catalogs using Studio and PowerShell commands.
Feb 27

Service account for routing Azure AD Identity traffic

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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
Using this feature, you can create and modify a Microsoft Entra service account to route Microsoft Entra ID traffic from Delivery Controller to Microsoft Entra through Citrix Cloud Connector to enhance security.
Feb 27

AWS Support Provisioning Data Disk

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     In Development

 

Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
Citrix admins now have the capability to provision a catalog of VMs with persistent data disks (i.e., secondary volumes) in AWS environments. Previously, master images (AMIs) with secondary volumes attached were not allowed, only AMIs with just a root volume. This capability will now allow admins to use AMIs with a secondary volume to provision VMs with a persistent data disk. 
Feb 27

AWS Support Cross-account provisioning

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     In Development

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     In Development

 

Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
There are scenarios where the Cloud Connectors or Delivery Controllers would like to be placed in separate AWS accounts from that of their MCS-provisioned machine catalog accounts. To support such scenarios, this feature will leverage VPC peering and cross-account access using IAM roles to make provisioning across different AWS accounts possible for enterprises managing multiple AWS accounts.
Feb 27

AWS Support for backup SKU list for VMs

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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
Support for backup SKU list for VMs in AWS With this feature, in the AWS virtualization environment, you can provide a list of backup EC2 instance types (“Backup SKUs”) using PowerShell that MCS can fallback to in case of capacity-related issues.
Feb 19

Upcoming Removal of MMC-based Studio

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Configuration Console/Studio
As part of our transition to Web Studio, the MMC-based Studio will be removed from the CR 2511 installer. This change establishes Web Studio as the single management console, providing administrators with a consistent experience, modern interface, streamlined workflows, and enhanced capabilities.
Feb 15

Enhanced log collection and reporting

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     Now Available

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     Now Available

 

Citrix Endpoint Management
This feature improves log collection and issue reporting to enhance IT support capabilities and assists in debugging customer issues for Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM) clients.
Feb 12

Support for Enforce a minimum OS version to complete setup on Automated Enrollment

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     Now Available
Citrix Endpoint Management
The XenMobile Server now includes a new property, 'ios.mdm.minimum_os_version.enrollment', which enforces a minimum OS version requirement to complete setup on devices using Automated Enrollment. This feature ensures that only the devices running on iOS 17 or later can complete the enrollment process, while enhancing security and compatibility. By default, this property is set to 'True'. 
Feb 10

Enable changing MCS provisioned VM size on Azure

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     In Development
Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
Using Full Configuration, you can now change the size of MCS-provisioned VMs in Azure environments. The feature applies to both persistent VMs and non-persistent VMs.
Feb 08

Ability to use CMEK global and regional keys in Google Cloud

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     In Development
Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
In Google Cloud environments, you can now browse and use global or regional customer-managed encryption-key (CMEK) from all projects that are accessible to the service account. This feature enhances the flexibility to manage encryption keys. This feature requires extra permission for host connection to browse key outside the provisioning project.