What’s new
What’s new in 2407
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You can download the latest Workspace Environment Management installer from the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops downloads page https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops/. On that page, access the installer under Components of the latest version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.
This release includes the following new features and addresses issues to improve the user experience:
Support for Windows Server 2025
WEM now supports Windows Server 2025. For more information on Windows Server 2025, see the Microsoft documentation What’s new in Windows Server 2025.
WEM agent basic deployment mode
A basic deployment mode for the WEM agent is introduced to provide basic agent functions, such as system optimization and logon duration analysis without the need to connect to the infrastructure service. WEM has powerful capabilities for user environment management that require deploying backend components such as Broker, database, and consoles for the entire deployment. Some of you might want to use only the basic features. For example, previously, if you wanted to use only the optimization functionality you had to deploy all of the backend components. This feature now provides a lightweight method to deploy WEM. You can use this deployment method for utilizing WEM basic functionalities easily. The WEM health check tool runs checks for these types of agents providing the ability to reconfigure the agent as an on-premises or service agent. You can now start the health check tool on an agent in basic deployment mode to run checks. You can also switch the agent type to on-premises or the service agent by providing necessary information about the infrastructure service or cloud connectors. For more information, see Install the agent, Manage Basic Deployment agents, and Using the WEM Logon duration feature.
Enhanced automatic backup limit for configuration sets
WEM provides automatic backup of configuration sets. The automatic backup limit is now enhanced to support storage of up to 25 backup files for each configuration set before overwriting the oldest existing file. This enhancement reduces the operation effort, especially for large and complex environments. For more information, see Manage automatic backup.
Customizing the Start menu layout for Windows 11
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To support user level assignments, you can now apply the WEM action JSON files for the Windows 11 Start menu configuration. Using the new tool Start Menu Configurator for Windows 11 in the WEM Tool Hub, you can now select applications that you prefer to add to the Pinned section of the Start menu and arrange the layout as needed. After customizing the layout, copy the configuration data and paste the data in the web console, when you add a new JSON object in the JSON Files page. For more details, see Customize the Start menu layout for Windows 11 and Add a JSON object to the Windows 11 Start menu layout.
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Minimum agent version required: 2403.1.0.1
Profile Migration Tool in the WEM Tool Hub
With the new Profile Migration Tool, you can now migrate different types of profiles to the Citrix container-based profile solution. This feature simplifies the profile migration process, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal disruption to user workflows. The following types of profiles are supported:
- FSLogix profile container
- Citrix file-based solution
- Local profile
For more information, see Profile Migration Tool.
User Store Creation Tool
This tool is introduced in the WEM Tool Hub to help you create user stores. The user store is the central network location for storing Citrix user profiles. This tool helps you to set up user stores by creating file shares and setting appropriate permissions to them according to your specifications. This tool simplifies the configuration process and reduces errors. You can choose to create the user store on the current machine (running the tool) or on a different machine. For more details, see User store creation tool.
Windows event-based triggers for external tasks
Windows event-based triggers for external tasks now allow you to associate external tasks (session-level tasks) with them. When the Windows events meet the defined criteria, the trigger is activated. This trigger begins to perform the associated external tasks that help in automatically managing the session-level tasks, based on Windows events. For more information, see Considerations.
VHD disk compaction report
Administrators can now view the VHD disk compaction reports in the web console by enabling VHD disk compaction report collection. For more details, see Reports and Monitoring preferences.
Profile Management
Workspace Environment Management now supports all supported versions of Profile Management through 2407. The following features are now available in the web console.
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Enable in-session profile container failover among user stores. Specifies whether to enable in-session profile container failover among user stores. This feature enhances profile redundancy in the contain-based solution by expanding the container failover scope from occurring only at user logons to throughout the entire session.
The feature is available under each configuration set in Profiles > Profile Management Settings > Advanced settings > Replicate user stores. For more information, see Citrix Profile Management Settings.
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Folder redirection. Specifies rule sets for redirecting the paths of local folders to new locations. Each rule set specifies where you want to redirect the folders based on the users accessing them.
The feature is available under each configuration set in Profiles > Profile Management Settings > Folder redirection. For more information, see Citrix Profile Management Settings.
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Minimum agent version required: 2407.1.0.1