Optimize DaaS in Citrix® StoreFront Cloud
You can improve the efficiency and availability of your DaaS apps and desktops with the following options:
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Make your existing, on-premises virtual apps and desktops deployment available to store end users with site aggregation.
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Optimize connectivity with Direct Workload Connection, which involves configuring network locations in Citrix Cloud.
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Ensure service continuity during an outage for offline resilience.
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Configure single sign-on (SSO) to DaaS with Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS).
Site aggregation
Site aggregation allows you to add your on-premises virtual apps and desktops deployment to your store so that end users can access these resources alongside cloud-managed resources.
For more information on site aggregation, see Aggregate on-premises virtual apps and desktops in stores.
For more information on scalability limits, see store platform scalability limits.
Direct Workload Connection
Direct Workload Connection uses network locations to switch between internal and external routes to the virtual machines that host your virtual apps and desktops.
With Direct Workload Connection, you allow clients inside your corporate network to switch to direct launches of Citrix DaaS. Direct launches don’t require the HDX connections between clients and VDAs to be proxied through a gateway. Direct Workload Connection requires at least one internal network location.
For more information, visit Optimize connectivity with Direct Workload Connection.
Service continuity
Service continuity ensures that end users maintain access to critical apps and desktops through Citrix Workspace app if there’s a Citrix Cloud™ outage.
Service continuity stores connection leases on client disks that have Citrix Workspace app installed. Connection leases are refreshed periodically when clients access the store. Clients can then launch Citrix DaaS that they could access before the outage. For more information, visit Service continuity.
Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS)
Citrix® StoreFront Cloud supports using Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS) for single sign-on (SSO) to Citrix DaaS. FAS allows end users using a federated identity provider, such as Microsoft Entra ID or Okta, to enter their credentials only once when they sign in to their stores. Without FAS, end users using a federated identity provider are prompted to enter their credentials more than once to access their virtual apps and desktops.
Using FAS with store has the following requirements:
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A FAS server configured as described in the Requirements section of the FAS product documentation.
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A connection between your FAS server and Citrix Cloud, created through the Connect to Citrix Cloud option in the FAS installer.
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A connection between your on-premises Active Directory domain and Citrix Cloud, with FAS enabled in StoreFront Cloud.
For information about implementing FAS, see Enable single sign-on for stores with Citrix Federated Authentication Service.
Resource filtering
Citrix® StoreFront Cloud passes information on the store used to DaaS, which you can use to filter resources. For more information, see Resource filtering using delivery group access policies