Citrix DaaS

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December 10, 2024

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This article gives you advanced notice of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) features that are being phased out, so that you can make timely business decisions. Citrix monitors customer use and feedback to determine when features are withdrawn. Announcements can change in subsequent releases and might not include every deprecated feature or functionality. For details about product lifecycle support, see the Product Lifecycle Support Policy article.

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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deprecations and removals are described in their own Deprecation article.

Deprecations and removals

The following list shows the Citrix DaaS features that are deprecated or removed.

Deprecated items are not removed immediately. Citrix continues to support them but they will be removed in a future release.

Removed items are removed, or no longer supported, in Citrix DaaS. Dates in bold face indicate the latest updates.

Item	Deprecation announced in release	Removed in release	Alternative
Support for the following `-AcctADAccount` PowerShell commands New-AcctADAccount Add-AcctADAccount Update-AcctADAccount Remove-AcctADAccount Unlock-AcctADAccount Get-AcctADAccount	December 2024		Use the -AcctIdentity PowerShell commands New-AcctIdentity Add-AcctIdentity Update-AcctIdentity Remove-AcctIdentity Unlock-AcctIdentity Get-AcctIdentity






Support for `Repair-AcctADAccount` PowerShell command	December 2024		Use the following commands `Repair-AcctIdentity`: To repair identity accounts without changing the current state of them. This can repair existing in-used identity accounts for existing provisioned VMs. For example, `repair userCertificate` attributes for Hybrid Azure AD joined identity accounts. The `Repair identity info` (including machine password/trust key pair) for AD joined identity accounts. `Reset-AcctIdentity`: To reset identity accounts to initial states (For example, from tainted to available). This can put any tainted identity accounts back to pool as available identity accounts.


Support for `-ResetIdentityInfo` PowerShell command	October 2024		Use `-Recreate` to recreate the identity disk. For information, see Repair the identity information of active computer accounts.
Support for configuring the MCS I/O write-back cache to include only a disk cache and no memory cache	February 2024	December 2024	When creating machines with write-back cache enabled, select the Memory cache size (MB) option and give it a non-zero size.
Support for Azure catalogs created before on-demand provisioning feature (“legacy” catalogs)	February 2024		Recreate Azure legacy catalog VMs. The catalogs are provisioned as on-demand and help to save storage cost.
Support for Citrix Connector 3.1 for System Center Configuration Manager	December 2023		Do image or application update manually.
Support for using a master image in a region different from the region where the catalog is created	December 2023		Use Azure Compute Gallery to replicate the master image to the required region.
Support for AWS volume worker	November 2023		Use Direct disk upload and download. See Direct disk upload and download.
Support for `Leave user management to Citrix Cloud` used in creating delivery groups	September 2023	September 2023
Support for `AwsCaptureInstanceProperties` used in AWS environments	August 2023		Use a machine profile. See Create a catalog using a machine profile.
Support for VMware vSphere 6.7		June 2023	Use higher versions for VMware vSphere.
`Schedule-ProvVMUpdate` PowerShell command	April 2023		Use `Set-ProvVMUpdateTimeWindow` command.
`Request-ProvVMUpdate` PowerShell command	April 2023		Use `Set-ProvVMUpdateTimeWindow` command with `-StartsNow` and `-DurationInMinutes -1` parameters.
`Cancel-ProvVMUpdate` PowerShell command	April 2023		Use `Clear-ProvVMUpdateTimeWindow` command.
`DedicatedTenancy` parameter used in `New-ProvScheme` command	March 2023		Use `TenancyType` parameter.
Unmanaged disk to create VM in the Azure environment	June 2022
Support for four AWS specific commands: `Revoke-HypSecurityGroupIngress`, `Revoke-HypSecurityGroupEgress`, `Grant-HypSecuritygroupegress`, and `Grant-HypSecurityGroupIngress`	May 2022
`StorageAccountType` parameter used in Azure environments	April 2022		Use `StorageType`.
Legacy console (MMC-based console)	July 2021	November 2021	Use Manage > Full Configuration to access the full range of configuration and management actions.
Azure Quick Deploy	September 2020		Use Quick Deploy.
Ability to import Citrix Provisioning target devices to create catalogs in Citrix Studio.	August 2020	February 2021	Use the Citrix Provisioning Export Devices Wizard to push Citrix Provisioning VMs into Delivery Controllers/MCS for catalog creation. See Export Devices Wizard.

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Deprecation

December 10, 2024

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