Citrix Provisioning

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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.

Enhanced Citrix Provisioning target information in WMI

You can now access more comprehensive information about connected Citrix Provisioning targets through the PVS_Target WMI class. This enhancement provides you with the ability to see server connection details through command-line, addressing your requests for increased visibility.

The PVS_Target WMI class is extended to include fields with data such as Server_Address and Server_Port. See The PVS_Target object.

Enhanced Always On Tracing (AOT) for Citrix Provisioning

You can now forward AOT logs from Citrix Provisioning to a designated log server. This feature enables centralized troubleshooting and advanced monitoring of your Citrix environment.

Removal of Office KMS Activation Acceleration feature

The built-in feature to accelerate Office KMS activation has been removed. Customers who require Office activation on Citrix Provisioning targets must now implement activation commands using a Group Policy Object (GPO) or a startup script to execute the necessary Microsoft activation scripts. To activate, run script <Office install location>\ospp.vbs" /act.

Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines on Azure Local

You can now provision and manage Citrix Provisioning catalogs using MCS for Windows and Linux VMs on Azure Local.

For Windows VMs, you can create and manage hosting connections and units, provision Windows 10/11 single-session and Windows Server multi-session VMs (both persistent and non-persistent). You can also update network, Write-back cache (WBC), or AD service account settings for new VMs after creation. This supports on-premises AD, non-domain joined, and Entra hybrid joined devices.

For Linux VMs, this feature supports Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise, and SUSE. You can provision catalogs with these OS types, deploy persistent and non-persistent Linux VMs, integrate with on-premises AD or non-domain joined VMs for authentication, manage host units (including storage and network settings), perform configuration changes on newly provisioned VMs within a catalog. For information, see Create Citrix Provisioning™ catalogs in Citrix Studio.

Citrix Provisioning for Linux targets

With this release, Citrix Provisioning for Linux targets supports:

  • Pure IPv4, pure IPv6, and dual-stack deployments that use overlapping IPv4 and IPv6 networks. For information, see the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops doc IPv4/IPv6 support.
  • NVMe disks for VMware.

For information on boot up mode support, see Streaming Linux target devices.

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