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 |
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| 01 Sep 2025 | Feature | Image management in Red Hat OpenShift environments | Image management functionality is now generally available for OpenShift virtualization environments. You can use Images node to create image definitions, versions, and MCS machine catalogs. Learn more. |
| 01 Sep 2025 | Feature | Create Red Hat OpenShift catalogs using machine profile | With this feature, using Studio, you can now create a Red Hat OpenShift catalog in MCS using a machine profile. The input of the machine profile is an existing VM. Learn more. |
| 01 Sep 2025 | Feature | Managing prepared image versions in XenServer | Image management functionality is now generally available for XenServer virtualization environments. You can use Images node to create multiple image versions, and apply or update to multiple machine catalogs. Learn more. |
| 01 Sep 2025 | Feature | Improve upgrade reliability with a pre-upgrade VDA restart | The VDA Upgrade Service now offers the ability to restart VDAs before the upgrade begins. This helps improve upgrade success rates by starting from a stable system state and avoiding issues caused by pending restarts. Learn more. |
| 01 Sep 2025 | Feature | Secure Private Access integration in Web Studio | The integration of Secure Private Access (SPA) with Web Studio is enhanced. Administrators in your organization can now open the SPA console directly from the left navigation in Web Studio. Learn more. |
| 26 Aug 2025 | Feature | Multi-select support for delivery groups | You can search for delivery group names using text input and multi-select up to 15 delivery groups for comprehensive analysis. Learn more. |
| 21 Aug 2025 | Feature | Share prepared image versions across subscriptions and tenants in Azure | You can use the Images node to share image versions across hosting connections in Azure. This implementation ensures consistency and uniformity of images across different subscriptions or tenants, enhancing deployment flexibility and operational efficiency. Learn more. |
| 18 Aug 2025 | Feature | Connector Appliance health alerts | This feature allows you to create and manage alerts for Connector Appliances. Learn more. |
| 18 Aug 2025 | Feature | Improved handling of vertical and horizontal load balancing alerts | This feature ensures that alerts only trigger for “Maximum capacity” in horizontal scaling scenarios. Learn more. |
| 18 Aug 2025 | Feature | Enhanced network metrics collection for session troubleshooting | This feature provides information on network metrics that are critical for Citrix session troubleshooting because session performance and stability depend heavily on underlying network conditions. Learn more. |
| 11 Aug 2025 | Feature | Enhanced network metrics collection for session troubleshooting | This feature provides information on network metrics that are critical for Citrix session troubleshooting because session performance and stability depend heavily on underlying network conditions. Learn more. |
| 11 Aug 2025 | Feature | Observability for multi-session VDA | The observability for multi-session VDA feature enhances the monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for Secure Private Access sessions within a multi-user VDA environment. Learn more |
| 08 Aug 2025 | Feature | Custom schedule for holidays | Autoscale now allows you to create custom schedules to turn off unused VMs in a delivery group on specific days, like holidays, to reduce unnecessary resource consumption. Learn more |
| 08 Aug 2025 | Feature | Image Management with Azure Confidential VMs using Studio UI | Use the Images node to prepare and manage images that are compatible with Azure Confidential VMs. Learn more |
| 08 Aug 2025 | Feature | Enhanced mobile experience for critical on-the-go DaaS tasks | You can now manage Citrix DaaS more easily from your mobile device. The updated experience is optimized for smaller screens, making it easier to access Studio from a mobile device when a desktop isn’t available. Whether you’re responding to an alert or quickly checking a misconfiguration, you can take action right away—no need to wait until you’re back at your desk. Learn more |
| 08 Aug 2025 | Feature | Customize your Studio view with My preferences settings. | A new My preferences tab is now available under the Settings node. Settings on this tab let you tailor your Studio interface to suit your preferences. These settings apply only to your account and do not affect other administrators. Learn more |
| 08 Aug 2025 | Feature | Improved restart UI for clearer control and customization | We’ve enhanced the restart schedule UI to make restart modes clearer and more customizable. You can now easily distinguish between graceful restart and forced restart, and configure custom restart durations to suit your needs. Learn more |
| 05 Aug 2025 | Feature | Citrix Advisor: Proactive insights and optimization for your DaaS deployment | Citrix Advisor is a service that helps you optimize DaaS deployment and enhance its overall health and readiness. It automates environment checks and delivers actionable recommendations, empowering you to proactively identify configuration issues, inefficiencies, resource wastes, deviations from best practices, and more. Learn more |
| 30 Jul 2025 | Feature | Cost summary | This feature provides a comprehensive summary of the expenses associated with running the Citrix environments. Learn more |
| 29 Jul 2025 | Feature | Cross-account provisioning in AWS | This feature uses VPC peering and cross-account access using IAM roles to make provisioning across different AWS accounts possible for enterprises managing multiple AWS accounts. Learn more. |
| 29 Jul 2025 | Feature | Backup SKU list for VMs in AWS | With this feature, in the AWS virtualization environment, you can provide a list of backup EC2 instance types (Backup SKUs that can be On-demand instances) using PowerShell that MCS can fall back to in case of capacity-related issues. Learn more. |
| 24 Jul 2025 | Feature | Enhanced session launch diagnostics with recommended actions | The updated Session Launch Failure Diagnostics page offers a more thorough understanding of session launch issues. You can find the visualization of involved components with error analysis and recommended actions. Learn more. |
| 22 Jul 2025 | Feature | Integration with Nutanix Prism Central on AHV | You can now connect Citrix DaaS to Nutanix AHV clusters through Nutanix Prism Central using a new host connection, Nutanix AHV Prism Central. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | MCS machine catalogs in Amazon Workspaces Core | MCS has now integrated with Amazon Workspaces Core to provision non-persistent MCS machine catalogs in the customer’s AWS account. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Studio: Support for more granular control over access policies in delivery groups | Previously, you could apply access policies to specific users only using PowerShell or REST APIs. Now, you can achieve this goal directly in Studio. This enhancement gives you more flexibility in defining different access conditions for various users or user groups, achieving more granular access control. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Customize desktop icons across platforms using Studio | Studio now allows you to customize desktop icons for any desktop of your choice. You can now upload icons and use them for desktops or apps, change the icon for individual desktops, or select from built-in icons for desktops of your choice. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Option to use system proxy on Citrix Cloud Connectors for Redirected GCP API Traffic | With this feature, you can redirect GCP API internet traffic on Citrix Cloud Connectors through the system proxy. This helps you to route all external traffic through a non-transparent proxy. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Option to use system proxy on Citrix Cloud Connectors for Redirected Azure API Traffic | With this feature, you can redirect Azure API internet traffic on Citrix Cloud Connectors through the system proxy. This helps you to route all external traffic through a non-transparent proxy. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Share encrypted prepared image across subscriptions and tenants for Azure | With this feature, you can share an encrypted prepared image across subscriptions and tenants. You can thereafter create a machine catalog in the resource where the encrypted prepared image is shared. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Add notes while assigning prepared images | With this feature, you can now add custom notes using Studio and PowerShell while creating or updating an MCS catalog with a prepared image. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Azure Arc onboarding across all on-premises hypervisor | With this feature, you can now enable Azure Arc Onboarding for an MCS machine catalog using PowerShell commands. Once onboarded, the VMs can be managed from the Azure portal to perform operations such as power management, add or remove extensions, assign policies, and enable Azure Monitor on the Arc-enabled VMs through built-in Azure policy. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Migration from unmanaged to managed disks in Azure | With this feature, you can migrate your MCS-provisioned Azure VMs from unmanaged to managed disks through Citrix. The migration applies to both persistent and non-persistent machine catalogs, supporting both on-demand and legacy VMs. Learn more. |
| 21 Jul 2025 | Feature | Image Management with Azure Confidential VMs | You can now prepare and manage images that are compatible with Azure Confidential VMs. Learn more. |
| 18 Jul 2025 | Feature | Studio always-on mode | Web Studio now introduces always-on mode to enhance resiliency and reduce downtime during infrastructure failures. In this read-only mode, you can securely view and monitor your Citrix DaaS environment even during service disruptions, helping maintain operational continuity. Always-on mode is available on all MANAGE nodes, except Quick Deploy. Learn more. |
| 07 Jul 2025 | Feature | Studio: Support for managing Azure AD security groups using service accounts | In Studio, you can now use Azure AD service accounts to configure and manage dynamic security groups for VMs. This update allows you to use a pre-configured service account to perform security group management without user interaction, simplifying the process and enhancing security. Learn more. |
| 03 Jul 2025 | Feature | Display NVMe v6 SKUs for ephemeral OSDisk usage | You now have the option to store an ephemeral OS disk on a NVMe Disk using Studio. Learn more. |
| 03 Jul 2025 | Feature | Migrate existing MCS provisioned catalogs to prepared image machine catalog | With this feature, you can convert an existing MCS catalog provisioned from master image to a catalog using a prepared image. Learn more. |
| 03 Jul 2025 | Feature | Display NVMe v6 SKUs for ephemeral OSDisk usage | You now have the option to store an ephemeral OS disk on a NVMe Disk using Studio. Learn more. |
| 03 Jul 2025 | Feature | Option to use system proxy on Citrix Cloud Connectors for redirected Azure API Traffic | With this feature, you can redirect Azure API internet traffic on Citrix Cloud Connectors through the system proxy. This helps you to route all external traffic through a non-transparent proxy. Learn more. |
| 03 Jul 2025 | Feature | Option to use system proxy on Citrix Cloud Connectors for redirected GCP API Traffic | With this feature, you can redirect GCP API internet traffic on Citrix Cloud Connectors through the system proxy. This helps you to route all external traffic through a non-transparent proxy. Learn more. |
| 01 Jul 2025 | Feature | Monitor and troubleshoot Secure Private Access agentless apps in Monitor | Administrators and help-desk personnel can now monitor and troubleshoot Secure Private Access agentless apps sessions and events in Monitor. Learn more. |
| 01 Jul 2025 | Feature | Updated duration of Pending HA state | The Pending HA state duration when Cloud Connectors determine if there is a need to enter LHC mode has been extended from 60 to 90 seconds. Learn more. |
| 26 Jun 2025 | Feature | Monitoring VDA logon duration details | You can now view detailed information on VDA logon duration to provide visibility into the time taken to log on to the VDA. Learn more. |
| 26 Jun 2025 | Feature | Endpoint metrics available on the Filters tab and Custom Reports | You can now view additional endpoint metrics such as Public IP address, ISP, Location (Country or City), Workspace type - Citrix Workspace app (app or browser), and Access type (through Workspace or StoreFront) in the Monitor Connection or Session filters and Custom Reports. Learn more. |
| 26 Jun 2025 | Feature | Bulk alert dismissal | Allows administrators to bulk dismiss alerts by time, type or category, making it easier to manage alerts, especially during maintenance modes or when dealing with alerts from hypervisors and other environments. Learn more. |
| 26 Jun 2025 | Feature | Enhanced network metrics monitoring in Citrix Monitor | Enhanced network metrics monitoring includes L7 latency monitoring, new network metrics, historical data, filtering options, and session connection path visualization for improved performance analysis and troubleshooting. Learn more. |
| 26 Jun 2025 | Feature | Red Hat OpenShift virtualization environments | With this feature, Citrix manages your Red Hat OpenShift workloads through a Citrix-managed OpenShift plug-in. Learn more |
| 16 Jun 2025 | Feature | Improved UI performance for importing VMs from AWS | Studio performance is now enhanced to optimize the process of importing VMs into Citrix DaaS from AWS. Learn more |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Feature | Service account for routing Azure AD Identity traffic | Using this feature, you can create and modify an Azure AD service account to route Azure AD identity traffic from Delivery Controller to Azure AD through Citrix Cloud Connector to enhance security. Learn more |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Feature | Assign security groups per network interface to VMs using the machine profile in AWS | In the AWS virtualization environment, you can now create an MCS machine catalog where the provisioned VMs are assigned security groups per ENI (Network Interface). Learn more |
| 06 Jun 2025 | Update | App packages | Revamped App packages article. Learn more |
| 06 Jun 2025 | Feature | Create host connections using Azure Managed Identity using Studio | Using Studio, you can now create host connections to Microsoft Azure Resource Manager using Azure Managed Identity. This method offers a secure and scalable alternative to using a service principal, eliminating the need to manage credentials manually. Learn more |
| 05 Jun 2025 | Feature | Cost modeling for Azure workloads | The new cost modeling feature supports Azure workloads and provides recommendations based on usage patterns. Learn more |
| 05 Jun 2025 | Feature | Local application usage reporting | With this feature, Citrix Monitor helps you to monitor the usage of applications launched within virtual desktop sessions (also known as local applications). Learn more |
| 04 Jun 2025 | Feature | View and filter machines by VDA upgrade state in Studio | Studio now includes VDA Upgrade State as a column in the Search and Machine Catalogs nodes. This column shows the status of scheduled VDA upgrades—for example, whether an upgrade was successful. You can also filter machines based on their VDA upgrade state, making it easier to track and manage VDA upgrades across your deployment. Learn more |
| 03 Jun 2025 | Update | Launch Hybrid Azure AD joined VDA sessions | Removed the section as it is not supported. Learn more |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Feature | Option to extend monitoring of HDX optimization beyond Microsoft Teams | Adds an option to extend the monitoring of HDX optimization beyond Microsoft Teams. Learn more |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Feature | New metrics in the Monitor dashboard | Addition of new metrics—Total connected users and Citrix Workspace app versions—in the Citrix Monitor dashboard. Learn more |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Feature | Enhancements to Cost savings page | Addition of service provider filter, support for selecting multiple delivery groups, and enhanced visibility into failed machines. Learn more |
| 28 May 2025 | Feature | Share encrypted prepared image across regions in Azure | With this feature, you can share an encrypted prepared ACG image across multiple regions in the same subscription and tenant using DES. You can thereafter create a machine catalog in the region where the encrypted prepared image is shared. Learn more |
| 28 May 2025 | Feature | Update properties of individual VMs in VMware | You can now update properties of individual VMs in a persistent MCS machine catalog using a PowerShell command. This implementation helps you to manage individual VMs efficiently without updating the entire machine catalog. Learn more |
| 28 May 2025 | Feature | Support for updating MCS provisioned machines in VMware environments | Using the PowerShell command Set-ProvVMUpdateTimeWindow, you can now apply the current provisioning scheme to an existing persistent or non-persistent machine or set of machines. This feature is applicable to machine profile and non-machine profile-based machine catalog. Learn more
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| 27 May 2025 | Feature | Estimate Azure VM costs during catalog creation. | When creating a machine catalog, you can now estimate the monthly cost of Azure virtual machines, including VM size and disk costs. You can also refine the estimate by adjusting settings such as daily power-on hours, workdays, savings plans, reserved instances, and shutdown storage. Learn more |
| 27 May 2025 | Feature | Visualization of provisioning cost insights. | You can now view detailed cost information for machine catalogs. The visualization provides an overview of provisioning costs and trends for the last 30 days. Learn more |
| 27 May 2025 | Feature | Support for converting catalogs from using master images to using prepared images. | With a new action, Convert to Prepared Image, in Studio, you can now convert MCS-provisioned machine catalogs using master images to catalogs using prepared images. This feature is available for Azure and VMware virtualization environments. Learn more |
| 26 May 2025 | Feature | Proxy configuration for service accounts | Service accounts creation now supports proxy configuration through NGS Proxy for Azure AD Identity management. Learn more |
| 15 May 2025 | Feature | Connector Appliance health metrics | Enables customers to monitor Connector Appliance’s health under the Infrastructure monitoring dashboard. Learn more |
| 06 May 2025 | Feature | Use Autoscale to hibernate VMs | The power management is now enhanced to support hibernation of VMs through Autoscale configurable settings using PowerShell. Learn more |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Feature | Intelligent Autoscale schedules plugin | Intelligent Autoscale is a data driven Autoscale feature with minimum administrative settings that allows you to configure the performance target of a delivery group. The performance target value ranges from 1 to 99 and the value specifies a target balance between user experience and cost. Learn more |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Update | Use persistent desktops with a non-persistent user profile in Citrix for Amazon WorkSpaces Core | Added the setting to use persistent desktops with a non-persistent user profile in Citrix for Amazon WorkSpaces Core. Learn more |
| 29 Apr 2025 | Update | Additional Cloud Connector configuration when using Rendezvous V1 | Added the setting to have additional Cloud Connector configuration when using Rendezvous V1. Learn more |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Studio: Studio: Support for exercising access control over apps at the delivery group level. | You can now perform access control over apps at the delivery group level. Currently, this ability is limited to controlling access to all apps within a delivery group. Learn more. |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Client Platform filter for policy assignments. | You can now control policy assignments more precisely with a new filter, Client Platform. This filter lets you assign (Allow) or exclude (Deny) policies based on the operating system of users’ devices, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, or HTML5. This enhancement offers greater flexibility and precision in policy assignment, ensuring a customized and uniform experience across managed and unmanaged devices. Learn more. |
| 28 Apr 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. Learn more. |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Support for provisioning Data disk in VMware | With this feature, you can now create and assign a persistent and non-persistent Data disk to an MCS created persistent or non-persistent VM of an MCS machine catalog in VMware. Learn more |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Enable trusted launch of existing persistent and non-persistent catalogs | With this feature, you can update an existing non-Trusted Launch persistent and non-persistent machine catalog to a catalog enabled with Trusted Launch. Learn more |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Simplified Azure AD security group management using service accounts | With this enhancement, MCS now supports using a pre-created service account to manage Azure AD security groups for Azure AD joined machines. Learn more |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Support for SCVMM 2025 | Citrix DaaS now supports Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2025. Learn more |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Feature | Create Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs and Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs enrolled in Microsoft Intune with prepared images | With this feature, you can now use prepared images to create Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs and Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs enrolled in Microsoft Intune using Studio and PowerShell commands. Learn more |
| 23 Apr 2025 | Feature | Support for automatically using Azure Temporary Disk for write-back cache disk. | When you edit an MCS-provisioned catalog in Studio, the catalog now automatically uses Azure Temporary Disk for the write-back cache (WBC) disk if the required criteria are met. As a result, new VMs added to the catalog uses Azure Temporary Disk for the WBC disk. Learn more |
| 22 Apr 2025 | Feature | App visibility control support for Azure AD users. | With Studio, you can now control which Azure AD users and groups can see a specific app in the Workspace app. Learn more. |
| 28 Mar 2025 | Update | Remove broker user from the cache | Added article on removing broker user from the cache. Learn more. |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Feature | Re-trust option for untrusted host connection certificates. | If a host connection outage occurs due to an untrusted certificate, you can re-trust the certificate for that host connection in Studio. Learn more |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Feature | Re-sync deployments in AWS UI. | A new option to re-sync deployments in AWS is added. Re-sync a deployment that is in Pending state or if the number of machines listed in a deployment does not match with the number of machines listed in AWS. Learn more |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Feature | Centralized site management is generally available. | As a Cloud Administrator of multiple sites, you can now designate one site as the primary and link other sites to it for streamlined, centralized management. This feature helps improve operational efficiency by reducing the need to switch between sites for daily tasks. Learn more |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Feature | UI Enhancements in Studio. | You can now copy data directly from tables and use table pagination for improved performance and usability. Learn more |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Feature | What’s new widget enhancement. | You can now switch between Featured for curated feature insights and General for comprehensive DaaS feature updates. Learn more |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Feature | Token usage limit in token-based enrollment increased to 5000. | We’ve increased the token usage limit in token-based enrollment from 100 to 5000, allowing for greater flexibility when enrolling machines in large-capacity machine catalogs. Learn more |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Feature | Migration of non-persistent VMs in VMware | With this feature, you can migrate non-persistent VM disks from one storage to another storage using the Move-ProvVMDisk PowerShell command. Learn more. |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Feature | Migration of VMs in XenServer | With this feature, you can migrate persistent and non-persistent VM disks from one storage to another storage using the Move-ProvVMDisk PowerShell command. Learn more. |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Update | Added Applications article | Added Applications article in Citrix DaaS document. Learn more. |
| 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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