Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops features
Enable a modern digital workspace by delivering apps and desktops to any device from any cloud. Compare features of the various Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops editions to determine which is right for your business.
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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service offerings provide simplified IT management and hybrid-cloud flexibility for virtual applications, VDI, and managed desktop as a service (DaaS) deployments. Please refer to the sections below to learn which features are available across cloud editions.
| Product Component | Citrix Virtual Desktops service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure | Citrix Virtual Apps Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps Premium service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium service |
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| Deliver Windows and Linux Apps Enable secure access to Windows and Linux apps on any type of device including iOS, Android, Mac and Windows for on-demand access from anywhere. The application performs as if it were installed locally on the device. |
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| Deliver Multisession Windows and Linux Desktops Deliver multi-user virtual desktops from a Windows/Linux server or desktop OS on-prem or in a public cloud. Including the multi-session Windows 10 Enterprise entitlement of Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop). |
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| Deliver Single Session Server VDI (Pooled, Dedicated, Personal) Delivers a desktop from a server operating system for a single user, supported on Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, and Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session |
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| Deliver Single Session Windows Client OS Desktops (Pooled, Dedicated, Personal) Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10 and Windows 7 are hosted in the datacenter and securely delivered to users on-demand. These desktops can be made available in a pooled fashion from a common base image or dedicated to users for personalization to meet the needs of advanced users. |
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| Deliver Single Session Linux Desktops Linux Desktops that are hosted in the datacenter and securely delivered to users on-demand. |
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| Non-Domain Joined VDA access without requiring an Active Directory, leverages managed Active Directory to authenticate the user. This is accomplished using Citrix Managed Azure Capacity. |
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| Citrix Managed Azure capacity Compute capacity managed by Citrix and billed directly to customer |
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| Remote PC Access Provide secure remote access to physical PCs and laptops leveraging the full HDX experience without SSL VPNs or the need to migrate desktops to the datacenter. |
| Product Component | Citrix Virtual Desktops service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure | Citrix Virtual Apps Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps Premium service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium service |
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| Any Device Access Empowers employees to choose the devices that are right for them and their work style. Citrix Workspace app works natively, and via HTML5, on popular browsers, on the broadest range of desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones to ensure device investment protection without added work for IT. |
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| Citrix HDX Technologies Deliver a superior high-definition user experience on any device, over any network. With Citrix HDX, the virtual experience rivals a local PC, even when using multimedia, real-time voice and video collaboration, USB peripherals (like smart cards and drawing/signature tablets) and 3D graphics. |
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| HDX 3D Pro HDX 3D Pro is a set of specialized technologies that enable the delivery of 3D professional graphics applications from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. HDX 3D Pro works with any hypervisor, cloud, device, or GPU, enabling customers the best possible experience with the flexibility of choice. |
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| Citrix Workspace experience A complete cloud-based digital workspace service that allows you to deliver secure access to the information, apps, and content relevant to each employee’s specific role on any device. |
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| Citrix StoreFront (Citrix user interface for virtualization only) On-prem hosted enterprise app store that aggregates resources from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, providing self-service access to Windows applications and desktops and internal web applications through a single portal from all devices. |
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| Microsoft Teams Optimization Citrix optimizes the delivery of voice, video and telephony features of Microsoft Teams within a virtualized environment. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops maximizes server scalability by redirecting multi-media capabilities to the client for a high-performance user experience. |
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| HDX RealTime Optimization Pack for Skype for Business The HDX RealTime Optimization Pack optimizes the delivery of voice, video and telephony features of Skype for Business when hosted on Citrix Virtual Apps or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. |
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| Workspace Environment Management WEM adds incredible value to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments by optimizing the user experience, accelerating user logins, improving manageability of the user environment, and saving customers money with improved server scalability. |
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| Service Continuity (Supported for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service with Workspace Experience) Service continuity removes or minimizes dependence on the availability of components involved in the connection process. Users can launch their virtual apps and desktops regardless of the cloud services health status. *Supported for domain joined only workloads |
| Product Component | Citrix Virtual Desktops service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure | Citrix Virtual Apps Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps Premium service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium service |
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| Unified Management Console Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Studio dramatically simplifies and automates large scale deployments, including multi-tenant, multi-zone and hybrid-cloud implementations. |
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| Custom delegated administration This capability in Citrix Studio provides the ability to designate specific administrative tasks to individual users or groups, such as helpdesk staff or support teams. Gives large IT departments the ability to isolate the scope and role of administrative functions for compliance and control |
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| Configuration logging This capability in Citrix Studio tracks administrative changes made to configure deployments, by whom and at what time they were made to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting and ensure audit compliance. |
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| Includes Citrix Hypervisor An on-premises hypervisor provided by Citrix. Visit the Citrix Hypervisor Feature Matrix for more info. |
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| Integrates with any Hypervisor Permits virtual apps and desktops to be deployed on any hypervisor including Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix Acropolis and VMware vSphere, cloud management platform, or storage infrastructure to give IT the freedom and flexibility needed to control costs, without impacting the user experience or performance. |
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| Hybrid Resource Locations Deploy Workloads on-premises and/or public cloud from a unified location |
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| Machine Creation Services Image management and provisioning control from within the Citrix Studio console for simplified administration, especially beneficial in a public or hybrid cloud deployment. Integrates directly with APIs of public clouds and hypervisors to streamline management. |
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| Provisioning Services Centralized image management simplifies deployments of all sizes, physical or virtual, by streaming Windows and Linux OS workloads. *Component can only be deployed in an on-prem, co-located, or customer datacenter, contact your sales representative for guidance + Citrix Provisioning for Citrix Virtual Apps Advanced is available for VMHosted application instances running on a desktop operating system only. |
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| Autoscale/Power Management Provides a consistent, high-performance solution to proactively power manage your machines. It aims to balance costs and user experience. |
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| Fast Image Builder A management tool that enables customers to custom build master images with templates provided by Citrix *Via Quick Deploy only |
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| Citrix Prepared Images Image template provided by Citrix to aid customers in building master images *Via Quick Deploy only |
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| The Citrix ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow Providing a single point of integration between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to ServiceNow, the ITSM adaptor automates aspects of virtual apps and desktop delivery with out of the box workflows aimed at improving efficiency, compliance and productivity. |
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| Basic App Layering Offers admins the ability to create distinct layers for operating systems, applications, 0365 layers, and user personalization, which are combined at runtime to provide an optimized user experience. Layered deployments can provide significant cost and management benefits, while giving users a customized desktop experience. |
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| User Personalization Layers Extends the capabilities of non-persistent machine catalogs, by preserving users’ data and locally installed applications across sessions. This enables IT organizations to provide a persistent experience to users logging into non-persistent machines. This feature replaces Personal vDisk (PvD). |
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| Citrix App Layering with Advanced configuration Focused on management at scale and multi-site needs, it enables the delivery of the same application layer to multiple hypervisor types, multiple clouds, multiple provisioning mechanisms, and multiple broker types—without repackaging layers. Includes OS layer, Platform layer, App Layer, and User Layer for dynamic customization of images. *User layers are not supported with multisession deployments |
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| Citrix SD- WAN Integration (Sold separately) Delivers a superior user experience even over low-bandwidth, high latency connections. Citrix HDX technology can intelligently detect bandwidth capacity and dynamically transform communication on the fly. |
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| FSLogix Integration* Access to FSLogix profile and application technologies *Access to FSLogix capabilities provided by Microsoft |
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| Universal Print Server Mitigates the administrative burden associated with the management of hundreds or thousands of network and local printer drivers through centralized, universal printing services and further optimizes printing performance across local, mobile, and remote connections. |
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| App and Desktop probing Proactively monitors the health of apps and desktops by scheduling automated launches to test overall system or site health. |
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| VDA Restore In the event of an VDA installation or upgrade fail, the software will automatically restore the VDA back to its pre-upgrade state. An admin can assess information logs as to why it failed and make the necessary changes to fix the issue. The VDA will be in a stable, usable state without the need to take more significant, time-consuming corrective actions. |
| Product Component | Citrix Virtual Desktops service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure | Citrix Virtual Apps Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps Premium service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced service | Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium service |
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| Monitoring with Citrix Director Provides a unified view where IT help desk admins can monitor, troubleshoot and assist users with virtual desktops and apps for thousands of users as easily as for one. The same console can be used to assist users with delivered apps and desktops. |
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| Director Premium Provides a comprehensive view of enhanced capacity trends, the ability to create customized reports, desktop and server OS usage reporting, proactive notification and alerting including SNMP integration, reboot warnings and Citrix ADM (formerly NetScaler MAS) integration and override control over roaming sessions ensure that IT is in complete control of their delivery solution for optimal performance and availability. |
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| Integrates with Citrix Analytics (Sold Separately) Citrix Analytics generates actionable insights, enabling administrators to proactively handle user and application security threats, improve app performance, and support continuous operations. |
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| Gateway Service Citrix Gateway Service provides secure, simplified access to all the SaaS and on-premises deployed web apps IT makes available to their end users. Organizations are entitled to 1GB of data per user per month, and data usage entitled is counted as pooled usage. *Organizations have the option to upgrade to Gateway Standard (add-on) |
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| Federated Authentication Service FAS enables seamless single sign-on to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops when using a federated identity provider in Citrix Workspace or StoreFront. FAS is deployed in a customer managed environment and leverages Active Directory Certificate Services to dynamically issue certificates for users. These certificates are then used to provide SSO by logging in users into the Active Directory environment as if they had a smart card. |
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| Multi Factor Authentication Enhances secure access from anywhere through integrated solutions. |
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| Session Watermarking Security policy to display a text-based watermark on an app or desktop session to deter and track data theft. |
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| Session Recording (Customer managed) Records the on-screen activity of any user session hosted from a VDA for Server OS or Desktop OS, over any type of connection, subject to corporate policy and regulatory compliance. |
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| App Protection Policies (Sold Separately) Protect corporate data against key logging and screen capture malware by scrambling keystrokes and saving screen shots as blank images. |
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on-premises offerings are robust enterprise grade solutions for VDI and virtual applications. To compare the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR to the latest Current Release, please visit this matrix.
Please refer to the sections below to learn which features are available across on-premises editions.
| Virtual Apps Standard (formerly XenApp Advanced) |
Virtual Apps Advanced (formerly XenApp Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps Premium (formerly XenApp Platinum) |
Virtual Desktops Standard (formerly XenDesktop VDI) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Advanced (formerly XenDesktop Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium (formerly XenDesktop Platinum) |
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| Server-based Virtual Applications (Server-based hosted apps) Enable secure access to Windows, web, or Linux* apps on any type of device including iOS, Android, Mac and Windows for on-demand access from anywhere. The application performs as if it were installed locally on the device. *Linux available in Advanced and Premium Editions only |
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| Server-based virtual desktops (Windows and Linux hosted-shared desktops) Highly-scalable, multi-user virtual desktops that provide the flexibility and mobility benefits of desktop virtualization while maximizing IT control through enhanced security and simplified management. |
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| VDI (Pooled and dedicated) Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10, Windows 7, and Linux*, are hosted in the datacenter and securely delivered to users on-demand. These desktops can be made available in a pooled fashion from a common base image or dedicated to users for personalization to meet the needs of advanced users. *Linux available in Advanced and Premium only |
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| Single Session Server VDI (Pooled, Dedicated, Personal) Delivers a desktop from a server operating system for a single user, supported on Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2016. |
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| Remote PC Access Provide secure remote access to physical PCs and laptops leveraging the full HDX experience without SSL VPNs or the need to migrate desktops to the datacenter. |
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| VM hosted applications Ease Windows OS transitions and overcome application compatibility challenges by delivering virtual apps from a desktop operating system. With VM-hosted apps, the app can be hosted on individual desktop VMs and published for seamless delivery to users just like a server-hosted virtual app. |
| Virtual Apps Standard (formerly XenApp Advanced) |
Virtual Apps Advanced (formerly XenApp Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps Premium (formerly XenApp Platinum) |
Virtual Desktops Standard (formerly XenDesktop VDI) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Advanced (formerly XenDesktop Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium (formerly XenDesktop Platinum) |
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| HDX™ user experience optimization Delivers a superior high-definition user experience on any device, over any network. With Citrix HDX, the virtual experience rivals a local PC, even when using multimedia, real-time voice and video collaboration, USB peripherals (like smart cards and drawing/signature tablets) and 3D graphics. |
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| Optimized Skype for Business The HDX RealTime Optimization Pack optimizes the delivery of voice, video and telephony features of Skype for Business when hosted on Citrix Virtual Apps or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. The Optimization Pack maximizes server scalability to minimize TCO and supports advanced features such as H.264 SVC, QoE reporting, and interop with third-party transcoders, bridges, gateways and audio recording systems. Learn more |
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| Optimization for Microsoft Teams Citrix optimizes the delivery of voice, video and telephony features of Microsoft Teams within a virtualized environment. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops maximizes server scalability by redirecting multi-media capabilities to the client for a high-performance user experience. |
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| Browser content redirection Redirects the full contents of a web browser to be rendered on the client for maximum server scalability and optimal user experience. |
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| Unified Communications optimization Seamlessly integrates solutions from Cisco and Avaya to deliver real time communication applications with “local PC” quality without having to increase bandwidth investments with built-in optimized point to point transfer of voice and video traffic. |
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| HDX 3D Pro™ A set of specialized technologies that enable the delivery of 3D professional graphics applications from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. HDX 3D Pro works with any hypervisor, cloud, device, or GPU, enabling customers the best possible experience with the flexibility of choice. |
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| Citrix Casting Allows users to securely and seamlessly move Citrix virtual app and desktop sessions from a mobile device to any display connected to Citrix Ready workspace hub |
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| Workspace Environment Management (WEM) WEM adds incredible value to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments by optimizing the user experience, accelerating user logins, improving manageability of the user environment, and saving customers money with improved server scalability. |
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| Citrix X1 Mouse A purpose-built wireless Bluetooth mouse for use while connecting to apps and desktops from iOS and Android devices. Enables precise interaction while providing an enhanced mobile experience that can often replace the need to work from a laptop or desktop. |
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| HDX Seamless local apps Blend a locally installed application on the Windows endpoint into a virtual desktop, providing a seamless user experience. |
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| HDX User Experience Templates HDX policy templates make it easy for admins to fine-tune the user experience based on specific use case requirements such as security and control, graphics performance, and environment scalability. |
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| Superior User Experience for graphic rich Apps Sharing enables multiple users to share a single GPU without compromising the graphics experience for cost-effective, high-definition performance. Citrix Hypervisor allows NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel Iris Pro drivers to be loaded directly into the hypervisor to ensure proper management of graphical application performance in a virtual app and desktop scenario. |
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| Citrix SD-WAN for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard (DaaS) SD-WAN integrated into DaaS admin workflow for automated provisioning of SD-WAN virtual appliance on Azure. *Purchase Citrix SD-WAN appliances for on-premise branches separately |
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| Citrix SD-WAN AutoQoS Improves the Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops experience through granular optimization within an HDX session. The proprietary ICA protocol distinguishes different types of ICA traffic such as in-band audio, display remoting, multimedia redirection, and printing and can optimize such traffic using Quality of Service (QoS) controls. Auto-configures Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for optimal integration, whether on prem or in the cloud. Granular visibility with rich reporting into HDX user, session, and site level detail. *Purchase Citrix SD-WAN appliances separately |
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| WAN Optimization (sold separately) Delivers a superior user experience even over low-bandwidth, high latency connections. Citrix HDX technology can intelligently detect bandwidth capacity and dynamically transform communication on the fly. |
| Virtual Apps Standard (formerly XenApp Advanced) |
Virtual Apps Advanced (formerly XenApp Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps Premium (formerly XenApp Platinum) |
Virtual Desktops Standard (formerly XenDesktop VDI) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Advanced (formerly XenDesktop Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium (formerly XenDesktop Platinum) |
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| App and Desktop Probing Proactively monitors the health of apps and desktops by scheduling automated launches to test overall system or site health. |
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| Citrix App Layering Offers admins the ability to create distinct layers for operating systems, applications, 0365 layers, and user personalization, which are combined at runtime to provide an optimized user experience. Layered deployments can provide significant cost and management benefits, while giving users a customized desktop experience. |
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| Citrix App Layering with Advanced Configuration Focused on management at scale and multi-site needs, it enables the delivery of the same application layer to multiple hypervisor types, multiple clouds, multiple provisioning mechanisms, and multiple broker types—without repackaging layers. Includes OS layer, Platform layer, App Layer, and User Layer for dynamic customization of images. *User layers are not supported with multisession deployments |
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| User Personalization Layers Extends the capabilities of non-persistent machine catalogs, by preserving users’ data and locally installed applications across sessions. This enables IT organizations to provide a persistent experience to users logging into non-persistent machines. This feature replaces Personal vDisk (PvD). |
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| Unified Management Console Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Studio dramatically simplifies and automates large scale deployments, including multi-tenant, multi-zone and hybrid-cloud implementations. |
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| Citrix Director provides a unified view where IT help desk admins can monitor, troubleshoot and assist users with virtual desktops and apps for thousands of users as easily as for one. The same console can be used to assist users with delivered apps and desktops. |
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| Director Historical Reporting and Trend Analysis Citrix Director gives you historical data retention and trend analysis. *Standard Edition: 1 week Advanced Edition: 1 month Premium Edition: 1 year |
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| Director Premium Edition Provides a comprehensive view of enhanced capacity trends, the ability to create customized reports, desktop and server OS usage reporting, proactive notification and alerting including SNMP integration, reboot warnings and Citrix ADM (formerly NetScaler MAS) integration and override control over roaming sessions ensure that IT is in complete control of their delivery solution for optimal performance and availability. |
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| Custom delegated administration (Studio) Provides the ability to designate specific administrative tasks to individual users or groups, such as helpdesk staff or support teams. Gives large IT departments the ability to isolate the scope and role of administrative functions for compliance and control. | ||||||
| Configuration logging (Studio) Tracks administrative changes made to configure deployments, by whom and at what time they were made to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting and ensure audit compliance. |
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| User experience network analysis Network analysis is provided by Citrix HDX Insight. This advanced feature makes it possible to isolate and manage your HDX network performance. *Citrix Gateway Advanced or Premium and Citrix ADM required for Citrix HDX Insight |
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| Robust high-availability Ensures that users can connect to resources should the site database link go down. Local Host Cache technology allows users to connect to their applications and desktops in the event that the connection to centralized management is broken. |
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| Citrix Provisioning for Citrix Virtual Apps Centralized image management simplifies deployments of all sizes, physical or virtual, by streaming Windows and Linux OS workloads. This approach reduces shared storage requirements, and simplifies patching and updating machines with fast rollout and rollback functionality. *Citrix Provisioning for Citrix Virtual Apps Advanced is available for VMHosted application instances running on a desktop operating system only. |
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| Citrix Provisioning for virtual desktops Centralized image management simplifies deployments of all sizes, physical or virtual, by streaming Windows and Linux OS workloads. This approach reduces shared storage requirements, and simplifies patching and updating machines with fast rollout and rollback functionality. *Physical desktop support not available with the Citrix Virtual Desktops Standard Edition |
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| Citrix Machine Creation Image management and provisioning control from within the Citrix Studio console for simplified administration, especially beneficial in a public or hybrid cloud deployment. Integrates directly with APIs of public clouds and hypervisors to streamline management. |
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| Microsoft App-V integration enables admins to distribute App-V applications to virtual desktops or servers through the Citrix Studio console without requiring a separate App-V server and database infrastructure. App-V applications can also share a common isolation environment for intercommunication |
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| Integrated profile management (User Profile Manager) Intelligently manages user profile settings between active Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops sessions to ensure user settings are consistent. It intelligently streams profile settings and data on-demand to ensure no matter the profile size, the profile performance is optimized and the user login and logoff processes expedited. |
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| Enterprise scalability Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops has been tested and proven in global enterprise implementations supporting tens of thousands of users. |
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| Hypervisor Agnostic Permits virtual apps and desktops to be deployed on any hypervisor including Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix Acropolis and VMware vSphere, cloud management platform, or storage infrastructure to give IT the freedom and flexibility needed to control costs, without impacting the user experience or performance. |
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| Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Easily integrate with your existing Hyper-V virtualization solution for provisioning machines and the flexibility to expand or change your infrastructure at any time. |
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| Citrix Hypervisor Included with all Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops editions, Citrix Hypervisor vGPU sharing provides the best possible graphics experience when virtualizing 3D applications. Visit the Citrix Hypervisor Feature Matrix for more info. |
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| VMware vSphere integration Easily integrate with your existing vSphere virtualization solution for provisioning machines and the flexibility to expand or change your infrastructure at any time. |
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| Nutanix AHV Integration within Citrix Studio offers built-in virtualization for a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure solution that simplifies deployment and reduces infrastructure costs. |
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| Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) integration Makes it easy to manage pooled desktop and server images from System Center while leveraging policy enforcement and report processes and tools provided in SCCM. |
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| Citrix Connector for System Center Configuration Manager Provides administrators with an end-to-end solution for managing Citrix Delivery Sites and published applications from within the Configuration Manager Console. |
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| Citrix ADC load-balancing (optional) Actively monitors services and web traffic to intelligently load balance users across Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops infrastructure to assure optimal uptime and consistent user access even during planned, unplanned, or scheduled maintenance window. Requires Citrix Gateway appliance, sold separately. |
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| The Citrix ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow Providing a single point of integration between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to ServiceNow, the ITSM adaptor automates aspects of virtual apps and desktop delivery with out of the box workflows aimed at improving efficiency, compliance and productivity. |
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| VDA Restore In the event of an VDA installation or upgrade fail, the software will automatically restore the VDA back to its pre-upgrade state. An admin can assess information logs as to why it failed and make the necessary changes to fix the issue. The VDA will be in a stable, usable state without the need to take more significant, time-consuming corrective actions. |
| Virtual Apps Standard (formerly XenApp Advanced) |
Virtual Apps Advanced (formerly XenApp Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps Premium (formerly XenApp Platinum) |
Virtual Desktops Standard (formerly XenDesktop VDI) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Advanced (formerly XenDesktop Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium (formerly XenDesktop Platinum) |
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| FIPS compliant Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops meets Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance. (Available for 7.15 LTSR) |
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| Common Criteria certified Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.15 LTSR meets Common Criteria Certification. * Refer to https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/products/ for additional info. |
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| Credential Guard compliant This Microsoft security feature introduced in Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2016, guards against "Pass-the-hash" type attacks and can be utilized with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops workloads. |
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| Strengthened IT security Protection of all mission-critical data in the datacenter unless it can be audited, controlled and enforced by policy. Only screen updates, mouse clicks and keystrokes—not data—traverse the remote connection keeping application data safe from hackers and protecting the corporate network from unmanaged devices. |
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| Multi-Factor authentication Enhances secure access from anywhere through integrated solutions such as RSA SecureID, RADIUS server, and Aladdin SafeWord for Citrix StoreFront via Citrix Gateway (previously NetScaler). |
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| Federated Authentication Service Integrates with StoreFront and SAML-based identity providers (i.e. Azure AD, Okta, Ping, etc) via Citrix Gateway to deliver secure, single sign-on to apps and desktops while also simplifying account management of contractors, partners and employees who utilize B2B integration. |
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| Smart Card Integration Saves time for workers who need fast access to information. Support for smart card authentication to hosted applications and desktops as well as passthrough support on Citrix StoreFront via Citrix Gateway (previously NetScaler). Includes such cards as Common Access Cards (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV). |
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| Accelerated Logon for Smart Card Users is key when time is of the essence for healthcare workers who need fast access to patient information. Expedite the user logon process for healthcare workers who depend on Smart Card identification for access to the virtual applications and desktops that provide patient healthcare information. |
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App Protection * Must be purchased as an add-on for on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops |
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| ICA Proxy Provides secure access to virtual Windows apps and desktops published on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops while keeping apps, desktops and data safely protected within the datacenter without requiring a VPN. *Gateway appliance is required separately for on-prem deployments |
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| SmartAccess Fine-grained context-based policy engine employs smart access policy management to balance the needs of varying use case scenarios by granting or denying individual tasks, such as printing, copy/paste or mapping drives, at a granular scenario-specific level. Provided with Citrix Gateway Universal License included in Premium. *Citrix Gateway appliance, priced separately. |
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| SSL VPN Provides secure remote access control from any device to all the corporate resources located on the internal network. Provided with Citrix Gateway Universal License included in Premium. *Citrix Gateway appliance, priced separately. |
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| Session watermarking Security policy to display a text-based watermark on an app or desktop session to deter and track data theft. |
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| Intelligent session recording Records the on-screen activity of any user session hosted from a VDA for Server OS or Desktop OS, over any type of connection, subject to corporate policy and regulatory compliance. |
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| Citrix Content Collaboration integration Integrates Citrix Content Collaboration (Previously ShareFile) content with an optimized on-demand experience for file access and collaboration. Administrators control security policies and end user presentation to meet compliance or data sovereignty needs. |
| Virtual Apps Standard (formerly XenApp Advanced) |
Virtual Apps Advanced (formerly XenApp Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps Premium (formerly XenApp Platinum) |
Virtual Desktops Standard (formerly XenDesktop VDI) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Advanced (formerly XenDesktop Enterprise) |
Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium (formerly XenDesktop Platinum) |
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| Any device access Empowers employees to choose the devices that are right for them and their work style with a universal client that works natively on the broadest range of desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones to ensure device investment protection without added work for IT. |
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| Enterprise app store (StoreFront) Aggregates resources from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in one place providing self-service access to Windows applications and desktops and internal web applications through a single portal from all devices. |
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| Self-service password reset Citrix StoreFront simplifies the set-up and configuration of self-service password reset. An intuitive, web-based, self-service portal allows end users to easily and quickly unlock or reset their domain password. |
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| Clientless HTML5 Access Provides breakthrough performance for access to business applications and desktops from popular browsers, as well as Google Chrome devices. Enhances the graphics experience for both 2D and 3D applications and provides an improved audio-video experience at significantly lower bandwidth. |
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| Universal printing services Mitigates the administrative burden associated with the management of hundreds or thousands of network and local printer drivers through centralized, universal printing services and further optimizes printing performance across local, mobile, and remote connections. |
Please refer to the sections below to compare features and level of IT involvement from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service with the on-premises Current Release and the Long Term Service Release (LTSR). All editions compared are Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium edition. Some features of the cloud service may require components to be installed on-premises.
For more information on the 7.15 LTSR baseline and compatible and excluded components and features, refer to the product documentation.
Level of IT involvement key
= Not entitled in the release at all
= Requires IT to deploy and manage
= Hybrid solution, requires part(s) to be deployed and managed by IT
= A Citrix cloud service*
* The VMs running the virtual applications and desktops are managed by IT to allow flexibility and data privacy
| Feature | Virtual Apps and |
2106 Current Release |
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| Server-based virtual applications (Server-based published applications) Deploy Windows, web, or Linux applications enabling secure access from a wide range of devices. The application performs as if it were installed locally on the device. |
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| Server-based virtual desktops (Windows and Linux hosted-shared desktops) Highly-scalable, multi-user virtual desktops that provide the flexibility and mobility benefits of desktop virtualization while maximizing IT control through enhanced security and simplified management. |
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| VDI (Pooled and dedicated) Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10, Windows 7, and Linux, are hosted in the datacenter and securely delivered to users on-demand. These desktops can be made available in a pooled fashion from a common base image or dedicated to users for personalization to meet the needs of advanced users. |
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| Server-based VDI Enables enterprises and service providers to deliver to an individual user a single session, server-based virtual desktop either on-premises or from the cloud. |
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| Remote PC Access Provide secure remote access to physical PCs and laptops leveraging the full HDX experience without SSL VPNs or the need to migrate desktops to the datacenter. |
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| VM-hosted applications Some applications are only compatible with a desktop OS rather than a server OS. With VM-hosted apps, the app can be hosted on individual desktop VMs and published for seamless delivery to users just like a server-hosted virtual app. |
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| Support for Universal Apps based on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Universal Apps are modern, interactive applications designed to work on a wide variety of the latest Windows devices. Seamlessly deliver apps based on this new flexible platform from both Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 to any device. |
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| Content publishing Provide users access to content, including web sites and documents, from within the same Citrix interface that they access their apps and desktops. |
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| Support for Microsoft App-V Integration Microsoft App-V integration enables admins to distribute App-V applications to virtual desktops or servers through the Citrix Studio console without requiring a separate App-V server and database infrastructure. App-V applications can also share a common isolation environment for intercommunication. |
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| Policy-based access control with templates Policies enable administrators to control application and desktop delivery, availability and performance based on user, group, device, IP address range or other criteria. Policies can be used to control access to peripherals (drives, printers, clipboard, audio, COM ports), optimize performance (bandwidth limits, feature availability, latency reduction), and even enforce connection limits (number of sessions per user, per application, or both). Templates provide starting points for settings based on desired use-case such as maximum server scalability or branch/remote workers. |
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| HDX user experience optimization Delivers a superior high-definition user experience on any device, over any network. With Citrix HDX, the virtual experience rivals a local PC, even when using multimedia, real-time voice and video collaboration, USB peripherals (like smart cards and drawing/signature tablets) and 3D graphics. |
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| HDX Adaptive Transport / Enlightened Data Transport (EDT) Enlightened Data Transport is a new transport layer for ICA over UDP and is designed to provide users with the best possible experience regardless of if they are on the LAN or a high-latency WAN. Performance improvements are realized across all virtual channels including up to 10x faster file transfers, 5x faster print times and 2x more session responsiveness with improved audio and video. |
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| HDX 3D Pro HDX 3D Pro is a set of specialized technologies that enable the delivery of 3D professional graphics applications from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. HDX 3D Pro works with any hypervisor, cloud, device, or GPU, enabling customers the best possible experience with the flexibility of choice. |
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| Thinwire The modern Thinwire display remoting technology in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops maximizes server scalability while providing a great user experience for mainstream business applications running on modern versions of Windows, whether delivered to newer or older endpoint devices. |
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| Optimization for Microsoft Teams desktop client Citrix optimizes the delivery of voice, video and telephony features of a fully native Microsoft Teams client within a virtualized environment. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops maximizes server scalability by redirecting multi-media capabilities to the client for a high-performance user experience. |
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| Optimized web-based Microsoft Teams By leveraging Browser Content Redirection within Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, the embedded Teams browser content can be redirected to the client. This enables audio and video processing occur on the endpoint to provide the best possible Teams experience within a virtualized environment. |
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| HDX RealTime Optimization Pack for Skype for Business The HDX RealTime Optimization Pack optimizes the delivery of voice, video and telephony features of Skype for Business when hosted on Citrix Virtual Apps or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. The Optimization Pack maximizes server scalability to minimize TCO and supports advanced features such as H.264 SVC, QoE reporting, and interop with third-party transcoders, bridges, gateways and audio recording systems. |
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| Cisco Jabber Optimization (Provided and supported by third-party) Optimize Cisco Jabber in virtual app and desktop environments with the Cisco Virtualization Experience Media Edition (VXME). Media processing is offloaded to the endpoint device for the best possible user experience and maximum server scalability. |
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| Avaya One-X Optimization Designed to run in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments for optimized delivery of HD-quality voice and video. |
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| Windows Media Redirection Windows Media redirection controls and optimizes the way servers deliver streaming audio and video to users. By playing the media run-time files on the client device rather than the server, Windows Media redirection reduces the bandwidth requirements for playing multimedia files. Windows Media redirection improves the performance of Windows Media player and compatible players running on virtual Windows desktops. |
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| Flash Redirection Adobe Flash content accessed via published applications is offloaded from the server and redirected to the user’s device (Windows or Linux) reducing resource consumption and improving performance. |
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| H.264-enhanced HDX SuperCodec The HDX SuperCodec is a blend of modern codec technologies that enables HDX to use the best compression method for each different type of content on the screen. Citrix was the first vendor to leverage H.264 codec technology with virtual desktops and we’ve continued to enhance our H.264 technology to deliver higher frame rates, top quality video and 3D graphics, and best-in-class bandwidth efficiency. |
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| H.265-enhanced HDX SuperCodec Citrix is the only vendor to make use of H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding), the latest industry-standard for video compression, within virtual apps and desktops for hardware acceleration of remote graphics and videos. |
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| HDX Mobile HDX Mobile improves the experience of Citrix users working in supported Windows applications and desktops on mobile devices. HDX includes a native interface control channel allowing Windows apps to be re-factored for a touch experience while leveraging device features such as multi-touch gestures and native menu controls. |
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| Session linger Keeps the user's session connection open after the user closes the app to provide a quick app reconnect or enable the user to open a new app without repeating the logon process. |
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| Local App Access Permit Windows apps local to the endpoint device to be seamlessly displayed within a full-screen virtual desktop session even though they are installed and running locally. |
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| Citrix Casting Citrix Casting allows users to securely and seamlessly move Citrix virtual app and desktop sessions from a mobile device to any display connected to Citrix Ready workspace hub. |
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| Citrix Ready workspace hub Citrix Ready workspace hub a cost effective, high performance enterprise grade thin-client developed on the Raspberry Pi platform. |
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| Citrix X1 Mouse A purpose-built wireless Bluetooth mouse for use while connecting to apps and desktops from iOS and Android devices. Enables precise interaction while providing an enhanced mobile experience that can often replace the need to work from a laptop or desktop. |
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| Single Sign-on with SAML Integrate StoreFront directly with a SAML Identity Provider for a true single sign-on solution to resources. |
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| Web-based self-service password reset Citrix StoreFront simplifies the set-up and configuration of self-service password reset. An intuitive, web-based, self-service portal allows end users to easily and quickly unlock or reset their domain password. |
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| Citrix SD-WAN for WAN optimization Significantly improves Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops capacity and performance over the WAN while providing a unified platform that accelerates applications across public and private networks, improving performance and end user experience. Citrix SD-WAN VPX (WANOP edition) appliances are included for branch offices. Citrix SD-WAN appliances for datacenter is purchased separately. |
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| Citrix SD-WAN Plug-in Software-based, network accelerator client that runs on Windows laptops and workstations offering accelerated app performance from anywhere, not just offices with Citrix SD-WAN appliances. |
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| HDX MultiStream ICA Provides the option of delivering HDX virtual channels over up to four TCP/IP streams and two UDP streams. This gives customers full flexibility for Quality of Service (QoS) routing over the network and provide superior audio/visual quality without disrupting other HTTP traffic. |
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| Browser Content Redirection Redirects the full contents of a web browser to be rendered on the client for maximum server scalability and optimal user experience. | |||
| HTML5 Video Redirection Offload HTML5 video content to the endpoint device for internal sites that are controlled by IT. This provides the best possible user experience for rich content while also maintaining maximum server scalability. |
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| Universal Print Driver Set of generic print drivers that can be used by any printer device as an alternative to the standard printer vendor/model driver. |
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| Universal Print Server Optional server component that is installed on a Windows print server to process print jobs from Citrix Virtual App and Desktop sessions. |
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| Citrix Profile Management Comprehensive profile handling and optimization including streaming, inclusion/exclusion, synchronization and reporting. |
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| Pre-launch Creates a local-like app launch experience by expediting the session creation process. With pre-launch, a session waits for the user in an active or disconnected state, enabling quick, instant-on app access to an already active app session making for a fast and local-like app launch experience. |
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| Workspace Environment Management (WEM) WEM adds incredible value to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments by optimizing the user experience, accelerating user logins, improving manageability of the user environment, and saving customers money with improved server scalability. |
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| Citrix ITSM ServiceNow Adapter The Citrix ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow is a cloud service that provides single point of integration between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to ServiceNow, enabling automation of common tasks in the enterprise with out of the box workflows aimed at improving efficiency, compliance and productivity. |
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| Citrix Provisioning Simplifies management for deployments of all sizes, physical or virtual, by streaming Windows and Linux OS image workloads. This reduces the amount of required shared storage and dramatically simplifies the ability to patch and update machines with fast rollout and fast rollback functionality exclusive to Provisioning Services. |
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| User Personalization Layers Integrated technology that captures user customizations, providing a persistent experience to users logging into non-persistent machines. |
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| Citrix Provisioning Accelerator Running Citrix Hypervisor along with Citrix Provisioning and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops allows caching of streamed VM data on hypervisor hosts. This cache improves VM performance, especially in large environments, while also reducing network consumption and conserving resources on the Citrix Provisioning servers. |
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| Citrix Machine Creation Image management and provisioning control from within the Citrix Studio console for simplified administration, especially beneficial in a public or hybrid cloud deployment. Integrates directly with APIs of public clouds and hypervisors to streamline management. |
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| Citrix App Layering Offers admins the ability to create distinct layers for Operating System, Applications, and User Personalizations, which are combined at runtime to provide an optimized user experience. Layered deployments can provide significant cost and management benefits, while giving users a customized desktop experience. *User Layers and Multiple platforms requires Premium |
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| VDA Restore In the event of an VDA installation or upgrade fail, the software will automatically restore the VDA back to its pre-upgrade state. An admin can assess information logs as to why it failed and make the necessary changes to fix the issue. The VDA will be in a stable, usable state without the need to take more significant, time-consuming corrective actions. |
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| Microsoft Azure Azure has been identified as the strategic public cloud vendor for Citrix solutions. Cloud provisioning on Azure enables IT to dynamically provision app and desktop workloads in Microsoft Azure from their on-premises deployment or deploy a new environment entirely within Azure. |
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| Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) Supports the deployment of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops workloads on Microsoft Azure, as part of your Azure Virtual Desktop entitlement, including multi-session Windows 10 support. |
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| Azure Government Supports the deployment of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops workloads on Microsoft Azure Government |
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| Azure Germany Supports the deployment of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops workloads on Microsoft Azure Germany |
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| Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hybrid cloud provisioning enables IT to dynamically provision app and desktop workloads from Amazon Web Services. |
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| Power Management for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Power management support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with the Citrix Cloud Virtual Apps and Desktops service deliver a better way to work with Google Cloud instances. With this new innovation, you can now create hosting connections to GCP, create managed machine catalogs, browse your GCP resources directly from the Citrix Studio UI, and provide full power management control to your administrators. |
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| Citrix Hypervisor Easily integrate with a Citrix Hypervisor virtualization solution for provisioning machines and the flexibility to expand or change your infrastructure at any time. Citrix Hypervisor vGPU sharing provides the best possible graphics experience when virtualizing 3D applications. |
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| Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Easily integrate with your existing Hyper-V virtualization solution for provisioning machines and the flexibility to expand or change your infrastructure at any time. |
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| VMware vSphere Easily integrate with your existing vSphere virtualization solution for provisioning machines and the flexibility to expand or change your infrastructure at any time. |
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| Nutanix Acropolis Integration within Citrix Studio offers built-in virtualization for a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure solution that simplifies deployment and reduces infrastructure costs. |
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| Universal enterprise app store (StoreFront) Aggregate resources from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in one place providing self-service access to Windows applications and desktops and internal web applications through a single portal from all devices. |
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| Anonymous (unauthenticated) access Enables StoreFront to provide access to user sessions without authenticating. Generally this is used where applications themselves require their own authentication. Allows administrators to optionally make a specific Store support anonymous (unauthenticated) access. |
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| Store Customization SDK Enables admins to restrict access to applications and desktops based on the user’s location, the type of devices the user has, or smart access policies. Create and define business logic around how users launch and experience applications to tailor access to application resources so that they meet the needs of your business. |
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| Resource filtering by types or keywords Tailor the applications visible to certain users by filtering on keywords present in the application description field or property types. |
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| Favorite applications Enables users define a list of favorite or frequently used applications for fast access. IT can configure featured applications for easy access to mission-critical programs. |
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| Citrix Workspace app Citrix Workspace app is an all-in-one app where users can access their favorite Windows, Linux, mobile, SaaS, web apps, desktops and files seamlessly and instantly. Users get uninterrupted access to the apps they need while IT retains immaculate control over user accounts and password policies to strengthen corporate security. (Refer to the Citrix Workspace app feature matrix for additional details by platform). |
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| Citrix Receiver A legacy client interface that automatically installs and configures client devices to access applications and resources meant specifically for authenticated users. Available for a wide array of OS platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. *Citrix Workspace includes the full capabilities of Citrix Receiver and more |
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| Citrix Workspace experience Workspace experience U/I is a Citrix Cloud service that enumerates and delivers all your digital workspace resources to Citrix Workspace app. On-prem customers can utilize Citrix site aggregation available in Citrix Cloud services to aggregate their on-premises virtual app and desktop deployments and provide simple two-factor authentication via time-based one-time passwords for enhanced security. For more information on Citrix Workspace experience go here. |
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| Citrix StoreFront Enables IT to create enterprise app stores that aggregate resources from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in one place. The store created provides users with self-service access to their Windows applications and desktops through a single portal from all their devices. Admins get a single place to manage the provisioning of corporate applications and desktops for users. |
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| Clientless HTML5 Access Provides breakthrough performance for access to business applications and desktops from popular browsers, as well as Google Chrome devices. Enhances the graphics experience for both 2D and 3D applications and provides an improved audio-video experience at significantly lower bandwidth. |
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| Non-admin client installation Eliminates the need to give users “Administrator” privileges in order to install Receiver for Windows to simplify application access. |
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| FIPS compliance Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops meets Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance. |
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| Common Criteria Certification Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR meets Common Criteria Certification. * Refer to https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/products/ for additional info |
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| 508 Compliance Citrix is committed to supporting well known accessibility standards including Section 508 compliance. |
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| SmartAccess Fine-grained context-based policy engine employs smart access policy management to balance the needs of varying use case scenarios by granting or denying individual tasks, such as printing, copy/paste or mapping drives, at a granular scenario-specific level. Provided with Citrix Gateway Universal License included in Premium. |
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| ICA Proxy via Citrix Gateway Service Hardware and software-based SSL-proxy that allows remote users to securely access data center hosted applications delivered via Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. All hosted application traffic is proxied to enable firewall traversal without requiring additional ports to be opened. ICA® Proxy provides secure access to virtual Windows apps and desktops published on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops while keeping apps, desktops and data safely protected within the datacenter without requiring a VPN. |
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| Endpoint scanning and extensible analysis Clients are scanned against administrator-defined criteria to enforce proper configuration such as up-to-date security software and operating system hotfixes. Endpoint analysis can be extended using industry-standard development tools. |
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| Federated Authentication to Azure Active Directory Deliver secure, single sign-on to apps and desktops by authenticating to Azure active directory. |
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| Centralized application delivery Applications are configured to execute on the servers in the data center. Apps and data are maintained in the data center and never on the users’ devices, improving security and compliance. |
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| Centralized desktop delivery Server-based and VDI desktops reside in the data center. Delivery in this manner means that the user experience of a full desktop is preserved regardless of a user’s device. |
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| Peripheral connection control Allows admins to define policies that control data transferred between the virtual session and the end user device. Restricts whether hard drives, printers, USB, COM ports, and the clipboard are mapped for a user. |
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| Session watermarking Security policy to display a text-based watermark on an app or desktop session to deter and track data theft. |
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App Protection * Must be purchased as an add-on for on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops |
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| ShareFile integration Integrate ShareFile content with an optimized on-demand experience for file access and collaboration. Administrators control security policies and end user presentation to meet compliance or data sovereignty needs. |
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| TLS/SSL encryption Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption ensures that all application delivery communications are secure. |
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| AES support Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is required by many government agencies and organizations with strict security requirements. |
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| Trusted server configuration Similar to Internet Explorer’s “trusted web sites” feature, Trusted Server Configuration prevents users from accessing unauthorized or un-trusted servers. |
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Federated Authentication Service Integrates with StoreFront and SAML-based identity providers (i.e. Azure AD, Okta, Ping, etc) via Citrix Gateway (previously NetScaler) to deliver secure, single sign-on to apps and desktops while also simplifying account management of contractors, partners and employees who utilize B2B integration. |
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Kerberos authentication |
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Smart card support |
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Passthrough authentication |
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| Citrix Cloud-Based Management Management infrastructure hosted by Citrix, which guarantees an up-to-date management experience supporting the latest features. Also allows for an easy addition of other Citrix Cloud services, like Content Collaboration and Endpoint Management, with shared capabilities across the services. |
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Active Directory Group Policy integration |
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Delegated administration |
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) integration |
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| Enterprise Scale Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops has been tested and proven in global enterprise implementations supporting tens of thousands of users. |
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| Local Host Cache Allows users to connect to their applications and desktops in the event that the connection to centralized management is broken. |
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| No single point of failure Multiple options for redundancy with the required databases, controllers, and other infrastructure components. |
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| Effortless Multilocation Management Easily Expand to and manage multiple resource locations, across different public and private clouds, as well as Citrix Workspace Appliances. |
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| Citrix Cloud Service Level Agreement (SLA) Cloud services are designed using industry best practices to achieve a high degree of service availability as defined here. |
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| Citrix AutoScale Citrix admins can support schedule-based scaling, load-based scaling or a combination of both to automatically power workloads on and off based on peak and non-peak times or loads. This helps with cost-savings and capacity utilization by powering on workloads as needed. |
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| Citrix Director Citrix Director provides a single web-based console where IT help desk admins can monitor, troubleshoot and assist users with virtual desktops and apps for thousands of users as easily as for one. The same console can be used to assist users with delivered apps and desktops. |
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| Advanced analytics Trend analysis available through the Citrix Director dashboard give admins insight into machine failures, etc. allowing escalation teams to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues. |
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| Zones Define how users are able to connect to apps and desktops based on criteria such as where the user is currently connecting from, what data center the app resides in or the location of the user profile. IT can deliver the best possible user experience while meeting business objectives. |
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| Load Balancing and Connection Throttling Load Management measures the server load and determines which server to select upon user logon, under the current environment conditions. Connection Throttling prevents new servers from being overloaded when many users logon to the environment at once by automatically controlling server load. This ensures users are distributed across the available virtual application servers and creates a consistent, reliable user access experience. |
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| Connection control Administrators can set a limit on the number of total simultaneous connections that each user can have to the environment. Administrators can also prevent users from launching more than one instance of the same published application. |
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| Cloud-based license management Flexible license allocation controls to allow administrators to release and reassign licenses as organizational needs change |
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On-prem license usage monitoring *Must have a Citrix Cloud Account to Enable functionality |
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| Application user load Limits the number of users allowed to connect to each specific hosted application, helping enforce licensing requirements for the application. |
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| Citrix Hypervisor VM portability Full-featured hypervisor including GPU virtualization and live migration functionality of virtual workloads from one physical server to another without interrupting user operation. |
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| App and Desktop Probing Proactively monitors the health of apps and desktops by scheduling automated launches to test overall system or site health. |
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| System monitoring and reporting Citrix Director allows admins to efficiently manage and monitor system resources and generate reports on application and server availability, performance and capacity. |
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| Historical performance trending Analyzes performance trends for proactive capacity planning and deployment optimization. With up to a full year of trend data available, detailed performance management and capacity management allowing you to keep track of your infrastructure. |
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| Custom Reporting Build your own reports within Director as required when you need something more than what the built-in Trends reports offer. An intuitive interface provides access to a wide variety of data points. Reports can be saved and later shared as required along with the corresponding ODATA query. |
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| SCOM Alerts Surface alerts from SCOM through the Director web-based console for improved overall visibility. |
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| Proactive Notification and Alerting Set warning and critical thresholds for key metrics, such as CPU, memory and network and receive notifications when they are hit. Alerts can further be integrated with standard SNMP systems. |
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| User experience network analysis Network analysis provides by Citrix HDX Insight, this advanced feature makes it possible to isolate and manage your HDX network performance. |
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| Session Recording Records the on-screen activity of any user session hosted from a VDA for Server OS or Desktop OS, over any type of connection, subject to corporate policy and regulatory compliance. |
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| Configuration logging Tracks administrative changes made to configure deployments, by whom and at what time they were made to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting and ensure audit compliance. |
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| Citrix Insight Services Collect and upload diagnostic information to cis.citrix.com from your deployment to proactively prevent issues and quickly resolve issues when they occur. Health checks analyze the environment to spot misconfigurations, identify security updates and advise best practice. |
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