What's new

• Fixed issues

• Known issues

• Deprecation

Technical overview

• Databases

• Delivery methods

• Network ports

• HDX

• ICA virtual channels

• Double-hop sessions

Install and configure

• Machine identities

  • Active Directory joined

  • Hybrid Azure Active Directory joined

  • Non-domain-joined

• Prepare to install

  • AWS cloud environments

  • XenServer virtualization environments

  • Google Cloud environments

  • HPE Moonshot virtualization environments

  • Microsoft Azure Resource Manager cloud environments

  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager environments

  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager virtualization environments

  • Nutanix virtualization environments

  • Nutanix cloud and partner solutions

  • Red Hat OpenShift virtualization environments

  • VMware virtualization environments

  • VMware cloud and partner solutions

• Install core components

  • Install using the command line

  • Install Web Studio

• Install VDAs

  • Configure Windows Defender Access Control related to VDA Installation

  • Precheck for VDA install and upgrade

  • Install VDAs using scripts

  • Third-party VDA deployment methods

• Create a site

• Create and manage connections and resources

  • Connection to AWS

  • Connection to XenServer

  • Connection to Google cloud environments

  • Connection to HPE Moonshot

  • Connection to Microsoft Azure

  • Connection to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

  • Connection to Nutanix

  • Connection to Nutanix cloud and partner solutions

  • Connection to Red Hat OpenShift

  • Connection to VMware

  • Connection to VMware cloud and partner solutions

• Service accounts

  • On-premises Active Directory service accounts

  • Manage service accounts

• Image management

• Create prepared image machine catalogs

  • Create a prepared image machine catalog in Azure

  • Create a prepared image machine catalog in VMware

• Manage prepared image machine catalogs

• Create machine catalogs

  • Create an AWS catalog

  • Create a XenServer catalog

  • Create a Google Cloud Platform catalog

  • Create an HPE Moonshot machine catalog

  • Create a Microsoft Azure catalog

  • Create a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager catalog

  • Create a Nutanix catalog

  • Create a Red Hat OpenShift catalog

  • Create a VMware catalog

• Identity pools of different machine identity join types

  • Identity pool of on-premises Active Directory joined machine identity

  • Identity pool of Hybrid Azure Active Directory joined machine identity

  • Identity pool of non-domain-joined machine identity

• Manage machine catalogs

  • Manage an AWS catalog

  • Manage a XenServer catalog

  • Manage a Google Cloud Platform catalog

  • Manage an HPE Moonshot catalog

  • Manage a Microsoft Azure catalog

  • Manage a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager catalog

  • Manage a VMware catalog

• Power Management

  • Power manage AWS VMs

  • Power manage Azure VMs

  • Power manage Red Hat OpenShift VMs

• Security policies

  • Security groups

  • Secure boot

  • Encryption capabilities

• Load balance machines

• Create delivery groups

• Manage delivery groups

• Create application groups

• Manage application groups

• Remote PC Access

• Cloud Connector Standalone Citrix Secure Ticketing Authority (STA) service

• Publish content

• Server VDI

• User personalization layer

• Remove components

Upgrade and migrate

• Upgrade a Deployment

• Proxy Support for VDA Upgrade Agent

Secure

• Federated Authentication Service

• FIDO2 authentication

• Integrate Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops with Citrix Gateway

• Security considerations and best practices

• Manage certificates

• Smart cards

  • Smart card deployments

  • Pass-through authentication and single sign-on with smart cards

• Enable TLS on Delivery Controllers

• Enable TLS on Web Studio and Director

• Enable TLS on VDAs

• Enable TLS on Universal Print Server

• Virtual channel allow list

• WebSocket communication between VDA and Delivery Controller

HDX connectivity

• Adaptive transport

  • Enlightened Data Transport

  • Troubleshooting

• HDX Direct

  • Certificate management

  • NAT Compatibility

  • Troubleshooting

• Secure HDX

• Virtual channel allow list

  • Troubleshooting

  • Known third-party virtual channels

  • Virtual Allow Channel List for DVC

Devices

• Scanning

  • TWAIN Redirection

  • WIA Devices

  • SANE Redirection

• USB Devices

  • Configuration

  • Composite Devices and Device Splitting

  • Troubleshooting

  • USB Diagnostics Tool

  • Legacy USB Redirection Configuration

  • Generic USB redirection and client drive considerations

• Client Drive Mapping

• Mobile and touch screen devices

• Serial ports

• Specialty keyboards

• Support key event sequence processing in Windows VDA for double hop

• Windows - Keyboard and IME Supportability Tool

• Webcams

Graphics

• Thinwire

• HDX 3D Pro

• GPU Acceleration

• 10-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR)

• Adaptive Refresh Rate

• Loss Tolerant Mode for Graphics

• HDX Screen Sharing

• Virtual Display Layout

• Session-based Watermark

• Thinwire

  • Thinwire Analysis

  • Thinwire Configuration

  • Thinwire Full Screen Encoder

  • Thinwire Selective Encoder

  • Intelligent Build to Lossless

  • Do Not Use a Video Codec

  • Always Lossless Mode

  • Colorspace

  • High Resolution Displays

Multimedia

• Audio features

• Browser content redirection

• HDX video conferencing and webcam video compression

• HTML5 multimedia redirection

• Optimization for Microsoft Teams (New)

  • Citrix HDX Optimization

  • Microsoft SlimCore Optimization

• Optimization for Microsoft Teams (Classic)

  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and support Microsoft Teams

• Windows Media redirection

• Virtual Channel Plugin Manager

  • Virtual Channel Plugin Manager Overview

  • Virtual Channel Plugin Manager Configuration

General content redirection

• Client folder redirection

• Client location redirection

• Bidirectional content redirection

• Host to client redirection

• Local App Access and URL redirection

Print

• Printing configuration example

• Best practices, security considerations, and default operations

• Printing policies and preferences

• Provision printers

• Maintain the printing environment

Policies

• Work with policies

• Policy templates

• Create policies

• Policy sets

• Compare, prioritize, model, and troubleshoot policies

• Default policy settings

• Policy settings reference

  • ICA policy settings

  • HDX features managed through the registry

  • Load management policy settings

  • Profile management policy settings

  • User personalization policy settings

  • Virtual Delivery Agent policy settings

  • Virtual IP policy settings

  • Configure COM Port and LPT Port Redirection settings using the registry

  • Connector for Configuration Manager 2012 policy settings

• Policies changes

Manage

• Applications

  • App packages

  • Universal Windows Platform Apps

• Backup or Migrate your Configuration

  • Backup and Restore configuration

  • Backup and Restore using Web Studio

  • Backup and Restore using the Automated Configuration tool

  • Best practices for backup and restore

  • Migrate configuration to Citrix Cloud

  • Merging multiple sites into a single site

  • Migrating from cloud to cloud

  • Migrate Cloud configurations to on-premises

  • Automated configuration tool cmdlets for migration

  • Automated configuration tool cmdlets for backup and restore

  • Troubleshoot Automated configuration and additional information

• Autoscale

  • Getting started

  • Schedule-based and load-based settings

  • Dynamic session timeouts

  • Autoscaling tagged machines (cloud burst)

  • User logoff notifications

  • Analyze effectiveness of Autoscale settings

  • Broker PowerShell SDK commands

• Citrix Insight Services

  • Citrix Scout

• Collect a Citrix Diagnostic Facility (CDF) Trace at System Startup

• Delegated administration

• Delivery Controllers

• Home page

• IPv4/IPv6 support

• Licensing

  • Multi-type licensing

  • License Activation Service

  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops telemetry data elements

  • FAQ for licensing

• Local Host Cache

• Machines and sessions

  • Machine actions and columns

  • Session actions and columns

• Security keys

• Session resilience settings

• Settings

• Tags

• User profiles

• VDA registration

• Virtual IP and virtual loopback

• Zones

• Remove broker user from the cache

Monitor

• Configuration logging

• Event logs

Director

• Install and configure

  • Advanced configuration

  • PIV smart card authentication

  • Network analysis

  • Delegated Administration and Director

  • Secure Director deployment

  • Configure with Citrix Analytics for Performance

  • Independent release of Director for LTSR deployments

• Site analytics

  • Alerts and notifications

  • Application usage monitoring

  • Filters data

  • Historical trends

  • Monitor Autoscale-managed machines

• Troubleshoot deployments

  • Applications

  • Machines

  • User issues

• Unified search for Hybrid multi-cloud deployments

• Infrastructure monitoring [Preview]

  • Getting started with Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Manage connections

  • Infrastructure dashboard

• Application and Desktop Probing

• Cost optimization

  • Cost savings [Preview]

  • Workload rightsizing

  • Cost summary [Preview]

• Feature compatibility matrix

• Data granularity and retention

• Troubleshoot Director failure reasons

• Secure Private Access integration with Director [Preview]

Citrix VDA Upgrade Service (VUS) - Tech Preview

• Pre-requisites for Upgrading VDAs Using VUS

• Upgrade VDAs using the VDA Upgrade Service

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting VUS