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Last updated on February 10, 2021
| Theme | On premises or cloud |
Domain | Feature description | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choice | Cloud | All | Non-domain Joined VDA support for customer-managed workloads | In progress | Enables connections to non-domain joined hosts using Cloud Identity providers such as Azure Active Directory (AD), Okta, Google IdP |
| Choice | Cloud | All | Native Azure Active Directory joined VDAs | In progress | Enables connections to pure Azure Active Directory joined Windows 10 hosts and help simplify cloud deployments |
| Experience | Both | Citrix Workspace app | 64 bit webcam redirection for Citrix Workspace app on Chrome/HTML5 | Tech preview | Enables webcam redirection from published 64-bit applications when using Citrix Workspace app on Chrome/HTML5 |
| Experience | Both | HDX | Teams optimization screen sharing - Citrix Workspace app for Mac | Released | Improvement to our Teams optimizations, allowing Mac client users to screen share in MSFT Teams within a virtual session. |
| Experience | Both | HDX | Teams optimization proxy support for Windows and Linux Citrix Workspace App | Released | Support for Microsoft Teams redirection in environments where HTTP proxy in anonymous authentication mode is configured on the Windows and Linux endpoints. |
| Experience | Both | HDX | Teams optimization proxy support for Mac Citrix Workspace App | In progress | Support for Microsoft Teams redirection in environments where HTTP proxy in anonymous authentication mode is configured on the Mac endpoints |
| Experience | Both | HDX | Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) scanning support | Released | Enables scanner redirection for WIA devices in addition to TWAIN. Allows end users to scan information in their remote desktops and applications with WIA scanning and imaging devices that are connected to their local client computers. |
| Security | Cloud | Workspace experience | BYO SAML Citrix Workspace authentication | Tech preview | This feature is designed to enhance the security and seamless access of Citrix Workspace by allowing customers to leverage industry-standard SAML authentication solutions. |
| Resilience | Cloud | Workspace experience | Service continuity with native Citrix Workspace app for Windows, Mac and Linux | Tech preview | Service Continuity for Citrix Workspace app for Windows is designed to ensure users of Citrix Workspace still have access to their apps and desktops in the event of a network disruption or internet outage preventing connections to Citrix Cloud. Through secure, intelligent caching of information, user sessions will launch uninterrupted for a configurable period of time, even if the brokering system is unavailable. |
| Choice | Cloud | DaaS | Citrix managed Azure for hosting DaaS workloads. Available in Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops Premium and Advanced services along with Citrix Workspace Premium Plus | Released | Offers fully Citrix-managed DaaS workloads to administrators inside the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced and Premium cloud service offerings. Allows admins to deploy apps and desktops on Azure using Citrix-managed capacity and billed directly from Citrix. Available through the purchase of Citrix Azure Consumption Fund add-on. |
| Choice | Cloud | Management | Web studio |
Tech preview | New Citrix Cloud studio is faster and more responsive, simplifying administrative tasks and reducing time spent on management. Some nodes are GA. |
| Choice | Cloud | Management | Web studio for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard Service | In progress | Web studio targeted to be added to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard Service to help with advanced configuration such as Policy configuration, Restart schedules for catalogs created via Quick Deploy. |
| Choice | Cloud | Gateway | Enlightened Data Transport Protocol support with Citrix Gateway service | Tech preview | Enlightened Data Transport Protocol for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is faster, improves application responsiveness, and is more interactive on challenging long-haul WAN and internet connections. Enlightened Data Transport Protocol delivers a superior user experience by dynamically responding to changing network conditions while maintaining high server scalability and efficient use of bandwidth. This capability is now supported with Citrix Gateway service in Tech Preview. |
| Choice | Cloud | Management | Orchestration RESTful APIs | Tech preview | Orchestration API, in limited tech preview, is a RESTful interface which provides customers and partners access to the same level of APIs that our Citrix engineers internally. For example, the APIs used to create a machine catalog inside a Citrix console is now available to customers and partners to facilitate automation of tasks or other activities. |
| Experience | Both | HDX | EDT MTU discovery for Linux and Mac Citrix Workspace App | In progress | MTU Discovery enables EDT to automatically determine and set the appropriate MTU for each session, so every session will use the MTU that is best for that user’s connection, avoiding packet fragmentation and providing enhanced performance and reliability. |
| Choice | Cloud | DaaS | New workload regions for Citrix Managed Azure | In progress | New Workload regions for hosting your workloads in Citrix Managed Azure. New regions will be US South Central, UK South, Brazil, Japan East, India South |
| Experience | Both | HDX | Teams Optimizations Improvements - Multi-monitor and multi-window | In progress | Optimized Microsoft Teams instances will gain Multi-monitor and Multi-window support |
| Choice | Cloud | HDX | Teams Optimization for Desktops sessions from Citrix Workspace App for Chrome | In progress | Citrix Workspace app for Chrome will be able to leverage Audio, Video and Screensharing when using optimized Microsoft Teams |
| Choice | Cloud | HDX | Advanced session data added for cloud-services management of Linux VDAs | In progress | Director will present Advanced Session data for Linux VDA sessions |
Note: In progress and tech preview items are targeted for release within the next 12 months and are subject to change without notice or consultation.
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