What's new and upcoming with Citrix technology and features

With this feature, in Azure environments, you now have an option to change the storage type to a lower tier at shutdown and restore the storage tier when the VM is powered on. This saves on storage cost while the VM is shutdown. The storage performance might also be impacted at start time.

Now customers of Citrix Analytics for Performance (CASP) can run and view results from the Cloud Health Check script from Citrix Workspace Environment Manager (WEM), without leaving the product. This can be leveraged to find the root cause of common VDA issues in Citrix Analytics.

The Citrix Cloud console introduced a more streamlined experience for adding administrators, including an improved interface and searchable permissions.

Admins can display custom time messages for users at the bottom of the page

Previously, Citrix Monitor allowed Probes to run simulated sessions, at fixed time-slot and only be scheduled for one specific time-slot. We have enhanced Monitor to now allow probe tasks to be schedule at any custom time along with recurrence for execution multiple times in the same day or week.

Citrix Session Recording service has reached General Availability! The introduction of the Session Recording service provides an advanced administration experience and simplifies deployment. It supports centralized management of server settings, policies, and playback. It facilitates administrative tasks by providing a unified entry point to manage and observe the Session Recording servers across your organization. Onboarding an existing 1912 LTSR deployment is also supported so that you don't have to upgrade to 2203 or later.

Until now, Citrix provided a disk image and accompanying script to support deploying the Connector Appliance in cloud services. With this change the Connector Appliance will be available within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) marketplace and deployed directly without the need for a script.

CSPs have a new permission to control which administrators can view information in the customer dashboard. This permission allows CSPs to show or hide the customer dashboard for custom access administrators. Only full access administrators can add new customers.

VDI Insider threat Monitoring with SIEM Data Source events export You can now leverage the new Data Source events export workflow to export data source events in addition to the Risk Insights events. This enables Security and Security operations (SOC) admins to correlate data from Citrix VDI with organization’s networks, servers, endpoints and other digital assets, on SIEMs.  

Allow administrator to run dynamic session recording action on Citrix DaaS sites Administrators can now run dynamic session recording actions on Citrix DaaS sites and dynamically record users' virtual sessions. They can configure the action with a policy to automatically start recording user sessions in case of a risky activity by a given user gets detected by Citrix Analytics for Security.