What’s new
What’s new in 2407
This release of Citrix Provisioning includes the enhancements described in the following sections. It includes several fixes for issues seen in past releases, and issues that we have identified.
Enhancement to the usage telemetry reporting
The usage telemetry reporting feature is now enhanced to collect and process data on how licenses are utilised for Citrix products, components, and features that are deployed in customer-managed environments. This enhancement ensures compliance with licensing for Citrix on-premises products.
To leverage this enhancement, update to the latest version of the license server. For more information, see:
For the list of Citrix Provisioning telemetry data elements, see Citrix Provisioning telemetry data elements.
In Citrix Provisioning, the connection to the license server is tested after you click Next on the License Server page of the Configuration Wizard.
For the changes related to the Configuration Wizard and farm properties, see:
- Configuration wizard: Select the license server
- Farm: licensing tab
- Running the configuration wizard silently
Create Citrix Provisioning catalogs using MCS PowerShell commands in XenServer
You can now create Citrix Provisioning catalogs using MCS PowerShell commands in XenServer environments. You can create both machine-profile based and non-machine profile based Citrix Provisioning catalogs. For more information, see Create Citrix Provisioning catalogs in Citrix Studio.
Support for creating Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs in XenServer
Citrix Provisioning now supports creating Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs in XenServer virtualization environments. However, you can only create catalogs in XenServer using MCS PowerShell commands. For more information, see Create Hybrid Azure AD joined catalogs.
Support for viewing operation logs with all Citrix Provisioning Console wizards
With this feature, you can now check the logs of the provisioning operations to enable better self-service and reduce the time to resolve the issues. You can do this using the View Logs button available on Summary page of the following Citrix Provisioning Console wizards:
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Setup Wizard
- Streamed VM Setup Wizard
- Export Wizard
The log file contains overall progress logs including errors and successful processing of each step.
For more information, see:
Monitor health metrics of Citrix Provisioning Server on a single console in Director
A new Windows executable named Citrix Infra Monitor is now installed automatically on Citrix Provisioning Servers. This helps you to get critical monitoring data sets and proactive alerts with respect to Citrix Provisioning Server system metrics on a single console in Director.
You can use these data to:
- Improve operational efficiency
- Prevent or reduce downtime
- Troubleshoot user complaints
For more information, see Infrastructure monitoring (Preview).
Support for enhanced encryption for all farms
Previously, enhanced database encryption was available only when you joined your farm with Citrix Cloud. With this enhancement, you can now also have enhanced database encryption for all farms. With enhanced database security, sensitive data in the Citrix Provisioning is re-encrypted with a new key. This new encryption scheme follows the industry standard AES-256 encryption.
For more information, see:
Support for enabling Citrix Provisioning Accelerator for targets using IPv6 streaming
With this feature, when using XenServer8, you can enable Citrix Provisioning Accelerator for targets using IPv6 streaming. For more information, see Citrix Provisioning Accelerator.
New latency and byte rate counters for Citrix Provisioning read and write operations
You can now run the Windows Performance Monitor to gather statistics about the following from the newly added read and write counters:
- Number of read and write operations happening per second.
- Average latency of those read and write operations.
These counters are added to the Citrix Provisioning StreamProcess. For information, see Provisioning server performance statistics.
Support for communicating with SOAP service with NTLM disabled
By default, Citrix Provisioning uses Kerberos authentication when communicating with the SOAP Service in an Active Directory environment. As part of the Kerberos architecture, it is crucial to register (create a service principal name (SPN)) with the domain controller (Kerberos Key Distribution Center). If the creation of SPN fails, the Kerberos authentication fails, and Citrix Provisioning falls back to using NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication.
However, NTLM is highly insecure and vulnerable to attack.
With this enhancement, the SPN is created when you run the Configuration Wizard. This action ensures that the Citrix Provisioning supports Kerberos authentication when NTLM is disabled. The SPN creation can fail because of the insufficient permissions of the user account. In that case, you can rerun the Configuration Wizard by either assigning permissions to the current user account or using an account with sufficient admin rights.
For more information, see Finish the configuration.
Control levels of target devices logs
With this feature, you can now:
- change the default log level of all new target devices in a farm defined in Farm Properties.
- change the log level of an existing collection and all target devices in that collection in just one step.
The log levels that you can set are:
- Off
- Fatal
- Error
- Warning
- Info
For more information, see the following: