The following table describes important changes to the Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) product documentation. These changes can be in addition to items in What’s new.
For document history until November 2024, see Pre-December 2024 Document History.
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| Date | Change | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar 2025 | Feature | Enhanced Autoscale features for improved power management | We’ve enhanced Autoscale to improve your experiences. Learn more. |
| 12 Mar 2025 | Feature | Improvement to Workload rightsizing | You can now use the Workload rightsizing (formerly Infrastructure Rightsizing) tab to identify power users. Learn more. |
| 12 Mar 2025 | Feature | Enhancement to Session Performance tab | You can now use the Session Performance tab to view details on protocol, MS teams, HDX connection type, input frames per second, and output frames per second. Learn more. |
| 07 Mar 2025 | Update | Load balance machines | Revamped load balancing article. Learn more |
| 07 Mar 2025 | Feature | Security groups configurations are inherited from machine profiles | You can now create an MCS machine catalog and select a machine profile that has security groups assigned. This avoids the security group configuration as it is inherited from the machine profile. Learn more. |
| 06 Mar 2025 | Feature | Autoscale holiday plug-in | With this feature, you can deviate from the standard Autoscale settings related to the power management of VMs and allow VMs to be powered off on specified holiday dates. Learn more. |
| 06 Mar 2025 | Feature | Match UEFI boot program to Citrix Provisioning version | This feature ensures that for Citrix Provisioning catalogs created using MCS, the target devices boot from the latest boot settings file, ensuring that target devices align with the Citrix Provisioning version. Learn more |
| 05 Mar 2025 | Feature | Create Azure AD joined and Microsoft Intune enrolled catalogs with prepared images | With this feature, you can now use prepared images to create Azure Active Directory joined and Microsoft Intune enrolled catalogs using Studio and PowerShell commands. Learn more |
| 05 Mar 2025 | Feature | Flexible storage location option for VMs | This feature gives you the ability to balance VM allocation across different storage service using the Enhanced current round robin allocation method and Least load-based allocation method. Learn more |
| 05 Mar 2025 | Feature | Enhanced resource monitoring for multi-session VDAs in Studio | Studio now provides detailed resource utilization and capability insights for multi-session VDAs. Hover over the Load Evaluator Index column of a multi-session VDA in the Search node to view detailed metrics. Learn more |
| 05 Mar 2025 | Feature | Improved session visibility in tag-based searches | When you search for machines by tag in Studio > Search, active user sessions on the matching machines now appear on the Sessions tab. This enhancement helps prevent accidental shutdowns of machines with active sessions by providing clear visibility of those sessions. Learn more |
| 28 Feb 2025 | Feature | Support for provisioning data disk on Azure | You can now create and assign a persistent data disk to an MCS created persistent or non-persistent VM of an MCS machine catalog in Azure. The data disk is used for storage of persistent data like event logs, security traces, and application data. Learn more |
| 27 Feb 2025 | Feature | Navigate seamlessly from Studio to Monitor for machines and sessions | A new option, View in Monitor, is now available in Studio > Search, providing quicker access to detailed session and machine information in Monitor. Learn more |
| 26 Feb 2025 | Feature | Cost Savings by optimizing storage usage | The Cost Savings page is enhanced with visibility into the amount of savings achieved through storage optimization when machines are powered Off. Learn more |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Feature | NitroTPM and UEFI secure boot for MCS created AWS VM instances | In AWS environments, you can now select a master image (AMI) enabled with NitroTPM and/or UEFI secure boot. This implementation ensures that the VMs are secured and trusted. Learn more |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Update | Monitor action enhancements | You can now use a progress bar for actions and support to limit action scope based on user roles. Learn more |
| 24 Feb 2025 | Update | Limits | Updated the limits of the number of VDAs and application groups. Learn more |
| 20 Feb 2025 | Update | Whitelisted urls | Updated Remote PowerShell SDK whitelisted urls. Learn more |
| 18 Feb 2025 | Update | Option to view and troubleshoot Secure Private Access Sessions for hybrid deployments. | This enhancement allows DaaS customers using Gateway, StoreFront, and Secure Private Access on-premises to monitor and troubleshoot their session data directly in the DaaS Monitor. Learn more. |
| 11 Feb 2025 | Feature | Share prepared image versions across hosting units in VMware | You can now use the Images node to share image versions across hosting units within the same hosting connection in VMware. You can also use PowerShell commands to achieve this goal. Learn more |
| 05 Feb 2025 | Feature | Support for creating MCSIO-enabled MCS machine catalogs in AWS | . You can now create MCSIO-enabled MCS catalogs to create MCSIO-enabled MCS machine catalogs in AWS to improve write IOPS by directing write operations to the write-back cache and to reduce the startup time when the persisting OS disk is enabled. Learn more |
| 30 Jan 2025 | Feature | Integration with Webhook | Citrix Monitor now integrates with Webhook, allowing you to create webhook profiles for tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and ServiceNow from the Alerting and ITSM section on the Integrations and data exports page. Learn more. |
| 24 Jan 2025 | Update | Secure Boot and vTPM | Updated the article to emphasize that vTPM is not a requirement for Secure Boot and added content for XenServer. Learn more |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Feature | Filter master images based on hosting unit regions | During machine catalog creation for the Azure platform, Studio can now filter out and exclude master images that belong to different regions other than the hosting unit region. This ensures that only images from the same region as the hosting unit are available for selection. Learn more. |
| 21 Jan 2025 | Feature | Add applications to existing AWS deployments in Quick deploy node | You can now add applications to existing AWS deployments thus simplifying the overall deployment process. Learn more. |
| 21 Jan 2025 | Feature | Option to reset In-Use Active Directory (AD) accounts | With Studio you can now reset machine Active Directory (AD) accounts even when the status of the machine is In -Use. |
| 21 Jan 2025 | Feature | Alerting admins that power policies remain effective when disabling Autoscale | The enhancement is to remind the admins that disabling Autoscale does not affect the power policy settings for a delivery group. This ensures that admins are aware of the scope of Autoscale disabling and clarifies that power policies remain effective when Autoscale is turned off. |
| 20 Jan 2025 | Feature | MCSIO with only disk cache no longer supported | The option to configure MCSIO with only disk cache (without memory cache) has been removed across all hypervisor and cloud service environments. Learn more |
| 20 Jan 2025 | Feature | Creating AWS VMs using machine template properties no longer supported | The Apply machine template properties to virtual machines option has been removed from the Machine Template page. Instead, create AWS VMs using machine profiles for a similar and more streamlined experience. Learn more |
| 20 Jan 2025 | Feature | Create MCSIO enabled catalog in AWS | With this feature, you can create an MCSIO enabled non-persistent catalog in AWS using PowerShell commands. MCSIO improves the performance of the VM by caching disk operations in either memory or on a small, high-speed disk. The option to configure MCSIO with only disk cache (without memory cache) using Studio has been removed across all hypervisors and cloud service environments. Learn more |
| 17 Jan 2025 | Feature | Least used and unused published apps report | With this feature, you can view detailed usage information for published apps accessed through Citrix Workspace app, which helps you to optimize app management and resource allocation. Learn more |
| 16 Jan 2025 | Feature | Secure Private Access integration with Monitor (Preview) | With this feature, you can monitor and troubleshoot all Secure Private Access sessions in Monitor. Learn more |
| 15 Jan 2025 | Update | Local Host Cache | Updated the entire article to improve accuracy. Learn more |
| 26 Dec 2024 | Update | Removal of Preview tag from Cost summary page | Removed the Preview tag from the Cost savings feature as the feature has been released for general availability. Learn more |
| 24 Dec 2024 | Feature | Automated configuration tool cmdlets for backup and restore | With this feature, you can use PowerShell commands supported by the automated configuration tool to trigger the backup and restore APIs that Studio uses. Learn more |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Update | Installation considerations | Removed the reference to CTX139030 and redirected to System requirements |
| 16 Dec 2024 | Feature | Optimize storage load balancing with the least load method | With this enhancement, Studio has introduced the Optimize storage load balancing with least load method option. If you select two or more OS data storage locations during catalog creation, this option becomes available, enabling disks to be allocated to the least loaded storage repository. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Secure Private Access tab on Monitor | With this feature, Citrix Monitor provides a dedicated place for all new features related to Secure Private Access. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Visibility for Secure Private Access Service | With this feature, Citrix Monitor provides detailed monitoring and visibility for Secure Private Access applications and users. Learn more#visibility-for-secure-private-access-service |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Unified platform experience for Citrix Monitor | With this feature, Citrix Monitor now aligns with all other components within Citrix Cloud, providing a unified platform experience. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Enhancement to Connections tab | With this enhancement, the Connections tab in Citrix Monitor now offers streamlined navigation for quicker troubleshooting. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Filter resource location details | With this feature, Citrix Monitor allows you to view the resource location for single-session or multi-session OS machines in the Filters > Machines tab. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Enhancement to Session Performance tab | With this feature, you can use the Session Performance tab in Citrix Monitor to monitor additional endpoint metrics which exist in the Citrix Workspace app for Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5, or Chrome. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Machine net active usage | With this feature, you can use the Workload rightsizing page in Citrix Monitor to get detailed insights into machine net active usage. Learn more |
| 13 Dec 2024 | Feature | Cloud Connector health monitoring | With this feature, you can monitor the health of Cloud Connectors using a single dashboard view and proactively configure alerts. Learn more |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Feature | NVMe-only SKUs | With this feature, MCS supports the NVMe storage controller type for the new VM SKUs on Azure. You can create an MCS machine catalog using a service offering that supports only NVMe or both SCSI and NVMe. Learn more |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Feature | Set a default time zone for your site | With Studio, you can now set a default time zone for your Citrix DaaS site. Studio uses this time zone for all time displays and scheduling such as scheduled restart and autoscaling. Learn more |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Feature | Studio adopts Citrix Cloud unified navigation | As part of the shift towards a unified navigation experience across the Citrix Cloud platform, we’ve updated Studio to align with this platform-wide initiative. Learn more |
| 06 Dec 2024 | Feature | AWS on-demand provisioning | With AWS on-demand provisioning, the OS disk gets deleted when you shut down a non-persistent VM. This implementation saves cost when the VM is not in use. Learn more |
| 03 Dec 2024 | Feature | Show Secure Default Settings | This feature shows the secure default setting along with the default setting for a policy. The default setting might be overwritten by the secure default setting. Learn more |
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