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September 21, 2023

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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 Citrix monitors customer use and feedback to determine when features are withdrawn.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
Removed the 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.
Support for Windows Server 2012 R2	April 2023		Use higher versions for Windows Server.
`DedicatedTenancy` parameter used in `New-ProvScheme` command	March 2023		Use `TenancyType` parameter.
Unmanaged disk to provision VM in Azure environments	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

September 21, 2023

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