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What’s new with Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops — December 2022

Monica Griesemer

It’s hard to believe that 2022 is already coming to a close. This year has flown by and has been full of new features, innovations, and updates from the Citrix team. In a recent blog post, I looked back on the biggest Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops features from this year. But we didn’t stop there!

Today, I want to bring specific attention to the great features and enhancements released this quarter. From a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Current Release to user experience and security improvements, there is a ton to love. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new on premises, in the cloud, and for Citrix Analytics.

Introducing the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2212 Current Release

Citrix continues to roll out current releases of our on-premises product so organizations can get the latest features and functionality on-prem on a regular basis. Today, we are excited to announce that the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2212 Current Release is now available!

Here’s a look at highlights from the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2212 Current Release:

Enhanced User Experience with Multimedia, Unified Communications Optimizations
Quarter after quarter our HDX team continues to deliver cutting edge features to enhance the user experience. In this release, we focused heavily on improving video conferencing experiences and offloading content to the endpoint for a better-than-local experience. Let’s dive into these new capabilities:

Greater Deployment Choice with Linux VDA Enhancements
Developers and users with graphics-intensive applications continue to get great value from leveraging the Linux VDA. The team has been hard at work to roll out several new capabilities this quarter with the latest Linux VDA. Highlights include:

Better Auditing with Citrix Session Recording Improvements
In addition to being introduced in the Linux VDA in preview, there are also new features available on-prem for organizations leveraging Citrix Session Recording.

Streamlined Management with Web-Based Studio On-Prem
We are excited to announce that we are bringing a native web-based management experience of Citrix virtualization resources to our on-premises customers. Currently in preview, this enhancement modernizes the admin experience and streamlines administration, reducing the parity gap between IT-managed Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and cloud hosted DaaS. Additionally, this release provides developers with a set of REST APIs they can leverage to automate the management of resources within Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments.

This is a huge step forward in streamlining the admin experience between on-premises and cloud deployments. Citrix is continuously working to meet organizations where they are in their cloud journeys, and these enhanced capabilities make it easier than ever to optimize your hybrid deployments. You can find more information on installing Web Studio on our documentation, and you can see it in action below.

Citrix DaaS Cloud Partner Updates

New Citrix and Microsoft Capabilities
We are continuing to meet organizations where they are in their Citrix and Azure journeys through our continuous development with Microsoft. That’s why we are excited to introduce the Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365 preview! This offering builds on top of Windows 365 by adding our HDX protocol enhancements for the best possible end-user experience, full Citrix IdP support for your enterprise authentication solutions, improved flexibility in clients and devices, and the ability to define Citrix access policies to secure intellectual property and provide zero-trust access.

We have also introduced new capabilities this quarter with Azure to improve IT efficiency, add automation, and reduce costs:

Introducing Citrix DaaS Standard for AWS in AWS Marketplace
As we work with our Citrix and AWS joint customers, we are continuing to have conversations about streamlining migration, expanding capabilities, and easing the ability to buy Citrix licenses. That’s why we released Citrix DaaS Standard on the AWS Marketplace to give organizations the ability to purchase licenses directly through the marketplace to expand deployments in AWS with ease. Customers can purchase Citrix DaaS Standard for AWS directly through the AWS Marketplace. After subscribing, you will be redirected to the Citrix cloud console for deployment.

Citrix and Google are expanding in Europe and more
The past few months have seen a lot of great innovations from the Citrix and Google partnership. We had a strong presence at Google Cloud Next in October and have continued to release exciting new capabilities since then. We have added Citrix-prepared images for Google Cloud delivered at no cost from the Google Cloud Marketplace to ease admin configuration. We are also excited to announce that we delivered a Europe-based Citrix DaaS control plane on Google Cloud! This is great news for our European customers because data sovereignty was top of mind when developing this control plane. Organizations based in Europe can realize the value of having a Citrix DaaS control plane running on Google Cloud hosted in the EU to improve the speed of accessing data and to meet GDPR requirements.

Citrix DaaS Enhancements

We are continuously delivering new features and functionality to Citrix DaaS and our cloud platform to meet your evolving business needs. Whether it’s strengthening your security posture with app protection and Session Recording or enabling automation with the ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow, there are a ton of new capabilities to start taking advantage of today. Let’s take a closer look:

Citrix Session Recording Service Now Available!
This quarter, we announced the release of Citrix Session Recording service! This new service has everything you know and love about Session Recording with a streamlined cloud console to ease the management and playback of recordings. Admins can more easily audit and secure user environments while meeting high compliance standards. With built-in capabilities like dynamic recording (see the video below) and event-based recording, admins can seamlessly find user activities that need to be  monitored while saving on storage space.

Adding the Session Recording service to the cloud has also allowed us to add new features and enhancements quickly. As we covered in this blog post, we have rolled out three new capabilities to help improve the experience of getting the service up and running as well as gaining better insights from your environments. Let’s take a closer look:

Citrix ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow Updates
As our partnership with ServiceNow continues to grow, more organizations are turning to the Citrix ITSM Adapter service to offer automation of help desk requests to their workforces to improve user experience and ease admin burden. We continue to add new features, and this quarter was no different:

App Protection Improvements
As we continue to enhance the capabilities of App Protection beyond anti-screen capture and anti-keylogging, we are bringing more power to your secured environments.

Cloud Platform Enhancements
In addition to adding features within Citrix DaaS, we have also added capabilities to the Citrix Cloud console itself to ease management and offer greater choice in how organizations want to deploy. We have made great strides in the past few months with adding capabilities to Federated Authentication Service (FAS) and enhancing support for the Citrix Connector Appliance. Some of these new additions include:

Introducing the Citrix Enterprise Browser
In October, we announced the official release of the Citrix Enterprise Browser! This release is a first-of-its-kind browser that provides secure access to SaaS and internal web apps, while giving admins complete control over applying security restrictions at a granular and contextual level, as a transparent layer on top of an enhanced user experience. Some new capabilities of the Citrix Enterprise Browser include:

Geolocation Redirection
We are also excited to introduce Geolocation Redirection to provide a native experience for location sharing based on the endpoint. The option to “Share your location?” is becoming increasingly more common, and web and Windows applications in virtual sessions need to provide accurate contextual data based on endpoint device location rather than the location/IP address of the server. Geolocation redirection allows your endpoint device to pass its location information along to the application, giving expected results from location-aware applications. This is huge for organizations leveraging maps, logistics apps, fleet tracking, and more to be able to set location-specific policies and track activity more effectively.

What’s New with Citrix Analytics

Citrix Analytics has brought actionable insights to organizations for years now. In this era of hybrid work, it is more imperative than ever to monitor and secure user environments and make sure the user experience doesn’t suffer because of it. That’s why we are dedicated to continuing to deliver new capabilities to both Citrix Analytics for Security and Citrix Analytics for Performance.

Citrix Analytics for Security Updates
Citrix is making it easier than ever to gather data needed to effectively monitor user sessions and adding new capabilities to meet compliance standards. Here are the top new features we delivered in the past few months:

Citrix Analytics for Performance Updates
Delivering an optimized user experience is imperative for employee retention, productivity, and satisfaction. Citrix Analytics for Performance delivers actionable insights to deliver an optimal experience. This quarter we are giving admins even more insights into their environments for optimization:

Looking Ahead to 2023

As you can see, there was no lack of features and functionality delivered to round out this year. We are continuing to keep the momentum going into 2023 to bring greater management, enhanced security, and an improved user experience to all your users. For even more information on what’s new in the cloud, head to our Citrix Cloud Updates page for the latest roadmap and released content. For more on-premises information, take a look at our latest product documentation. All of us at Citrix are wishing you a very happy holiday season, and we can’t wait to share more news and announcements in 2023!

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