Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) allow organizations to migrate the application development process online. It also enables them to rethink operational resilience in this context.

In this discussion, I explore how requirements such as the ones laid out by the Digital …

This blog contains high-level guidance for Citrix admins to recover their environments from the July 19 CrowdStrike outage. These recommendations are subject to change and may be updated.  

Recommendations for Citrix customers currently impacted by the CrowdStrike outage

Citrix DaaS …

Here at Citrix, we pride ourselves on being an industry leader in enterprise-grade application delivery infrastructure. But what does enterprise-grade actually mean? For us, that means building a product that is highly configurable and functional at scale, enabling administrators to …

In this article, we explore how secure Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) enable building a robust, scalable, and efficient AI-driven infrastructure for developers that prioritizes compliance, monitoring, performance, feedback, and scalability. Secure CDEs help gain deep understanding, control, and observability of …

This blog post was co-authored by Rody Kossen, Senior Principal Quality Engineer at Cloud Software Group.

Starting with CVAD 2212 we’ve made some improvements and changes in the way we are doing the display capturing in our Citrix HDX protocol. …

Late last year, Citrix announced the launch of a new cloud-based user interface. Citrix announced the tech preview with StoreFront 2311 CR and subsequent versions marking a significant step forward in providing a consistent experience across both cloud and …

Customer demand for  Linux virtual desktops and applications keeps increasing across key verticals like finance, manufacturing, and government. Key user personas include developers, designers, and even typical knowledge workers. The primary demands are to run domain-specific software in a highly …

As we approach the End of Life date for the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR  on December 18, 2024 now is the time to prepare for what’s next. Planning and executing upgrade plans can be challenging, especially in …

2023 was a fantastic year for the Citrix Linux VDA across both adoption and product innovation. Our anonymous telemetry for Citrix DaaS (Citrix Cloud) showed that we doubled the number of daily active Linux VDAs year-over-year! We also saw growth …

This blog was co-authored by Dave Brear, Senior Principal Solution Architect at Citrix.

2023 was a challenging year for many businesses. Geopolitical instability and financial uncertainty have had broad reaching implications. Hybrid work continues to be in a state of …

The Citrix Master Class dived deeper into the Citrix Secure Private Access and Autoscale on-premises topics covered previously in the What’s New and Next with Citrix webinar.

For those of you who were able to join us live, thank …

Citrix Session Recording is super powerful in your VDI and DaaS deployments. It can help your organization to record, save, and review virtual sessions for compliance, security, and troubleshooting purposes. Session Recording service offers you a web application in Citrix …

Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) is instrumental in generating machine catalogs derived from a single master image. To ensure the creation of unique machines, MCS undertakes an image preparation stage on a copy of the master image. By default, MCS …

Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) continues to be a great capability for improving user experience and saving admins time and money in their Citrix deployments. The recent releases of WEM bring new features to help customers solve business challenges.

We …

Given today’s rapidly changing digital environment, delivering an exceptional customer experience is a top priority for managing teams in a Citrix environment. 

The Citrix Director Machine Details page provides useful information and features to simplify troubleshooting, improve resource utilization, and …

More and more enterprises are adopting Citrix ITSM adapter service due to the significant time and effort saved by implementing self-service, workflow automation, and centralized incident handling. These benefits come as a direct result of combining the power of both …

Our team is continuously working hard on simplifying Session Recording deployments. Previously, we introduced Session Recording server auto-installation which makes it easier for admins to install Session Recording servers on existing virtual machines. Our latest Citrix Session Recording service release…

In the rapidly evolving business landscape across all verticals, remote work has become the new normal, and no longer the exception. One of the major challenges for C-level executives and business owners is the protection of their organization’s data while …

Many Citrix customers with Machine Creation Services (MCS) catalogs that use Azure have told us they want to deploy the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) on their MCS-created VDAs to align with their enterprise monitoring standards. Unfortunately, simply provisioning a machine …

The majority of organizations using Citrix operate in hybrid deployments. Citrix is built to meet you where you are in your hybrid journey, and that flexibility extends to Citrix Session Recording. Nowadays, Citrix Session Recording supports fully IT-managed deployments and …

The Citrix Workspace app is a cloud-based platform application that is leveraged by millions of users for secure access to virtual desktops and apps from any device. The Citrix team knows how important it is to provide users with a …

This year has already been big for Citrix! With a renewed focus on hybrid deployments and meeting organizations where they are in their cloud journeys, we’ve brought you a ton of new innovations and updates already.

First off, we introduced …

For a while I have wanted to better understand how to get the most useful information possible from Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop service). I have extensively used the Citrix DaaS Remote PowerShell SDK to automate tasks …

The browser has become the universal endpoint for devices and the user interface for applications. It is now a primary place where hybrid work gets done in an enterprise. Corporate web apps hosted inside the firewall or a cloud service …

With VDI and DaaS technologies becoming the go-to solution to support secure hybrid work, organizations have more deployment options than ever before, allowing customer choice in service providers and configurations at nearly every step of the way. With Google Cloud …

Since we announced the Citrix ITSM Adapter service, we’ve continued to add more capabilities that enhance our customers’ IT productivity. To ensure we are addressing their critical business challenges, we’ve focused on reviewing customer feedback as we plan new …

One of the things I love most about being part of Citrix is the excitement around our latest innovations. It is rewarding to see how our customers leverage them to capture new opportunities to create the next frontier in their …

This blog post was co-authored by Allen Furmanski, Principal Product Marketing Manager for Citrix DaaS.

There has been no shortage of updates in the world of Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. At the end of March, …

This blog post was co-authored by Wayne Liu, Senior Manager, Product Management, at Citrix.

In all digital transformations, compliance and security are key factors that organizations prioritize to drive decisions. When making the move to the cloud, it’s imperative to …

This blog post was co-authored by Leon Feng, Senior Product Manager at Citrix.

The Session Recording team is constantly working to make improvements and add new capabilities. We are committed to providing a great in-session user activity monitoring experience, with …

Today, industries like retail, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing are embracing mobile technology, and many organizations are leveraging mobility to empower employees and support a mobile-first strategy. Employees working in the field, from home, and on the go rely on …

As we near the end of 2021, one thing is certain — continued change. The global pandemic has forced businesses to significantly adapt how they operate and how/where their employees work, prompting massive technological transformation across the board. For channel …

The total value of ransomware-related payments in just the first six months of 2021 ($590 million) exceeded all of 2020 ($416 million). Yet, even with the increasing impact of cyberattacks, 90 percent of security leaders still believe they’re falling short …

The release of Android 12 is right around the corner. But there’s no need to worry. Citrix Endpoint Management is ready to support this new OS version on Day 0.

Here are the client and server versions that support Android …

This blog post was co-authored by Reza Jadbabaei, Lead Technical Account Manager at Citrix.

In our previous Citrix TIPs blog, my colleague Brendan Lin wrote a great post on choosing the best upgrade path for your organization. In this blog …

A little over a year ago, I created a utility to make managing Citrix App Layering User Layer Repair files easier for customers. The User Layer Repair Utility supported automation for copying selected repair files to selected User Layer folders. …

Many customers today are starting their Citrix Cloud journey by integrating Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service with existing on-premises Citrix StoreFront and Citrix Gateway deployments. Though Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service are …

I’m a big fan of using small tweaks to save time and improve the user experience when interacting with Citrix applications and desktops. A while back, I wrote a blog post about adding hotkeys for toggling full-screen desktops using Citrix …

Together, Citrix and Microsoft are delivering how people communicate and collaborate in today’s modern workplace. Citrix is building meaningful integration with Microsoft Teams, from providing an impactful experience in a virtual environment to automating workflows and moving toward building a …

One common global server load balancing (GSLB) issue we see often in the field is improper distribution of client traffic across datacenters. This affects the end user experience by increasing latency while accessing an application, which can have an impact …

Citrix Cloud Connectors are like the on-site representative for the Citrix Cloud control plane — the intermediary between your datacenter and Citrix Cloud. They are responsible for the communication between your VDAs and Citrix Cloud. Once the ICA session has …

Today, we’re announcing an all-new look and feel, and much more, for the Citrix Ready Marketplace. The Marketplace provides customers and channel partners a simple and effective way to explore and select Citrix Ready-validated solutions from our technology partner …

Citrix recently launched full support for Citrix ADC on Azure Stack Hub. With this new integration, organizations can start using Citrix ADC as a proxy along with Azure Stack Hub.

Azure Stack Hub is an extension of Azure that …

Many IT professionals can discuss basic SSL\TLS encryption and even throw around terms like Heartbleed and POODLE. Theory and real-world action are two different things, though, and I find that many of our Citrix ADC customers rely on out-of-box configurations …

As we promised back in September, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service is now even more flexible to address your ever-changing business needs. We are pleased to announce that all Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service customers now have …

Our largest partner event of the year is quickly approaching! We’re so excited to connect with you at our first-ever Citrix Field Kickoff. Because this year’s event is virtual and free, you’ll be able to collaborate and network with …

“Microapps have helped us create a tool that is much faster than what is currently on the market, with very easy data input. It’s a game changer in the lead generation workflow for financial advisors.” — Cyrus Hurley, President, Zuryc…

At Citrix, we’re always looking for ways to accelerate the pace of innovation and improve the user experience. One of the best ways for us to test new ideas is via the continuous Tech Preview program for Citrix Workspace app …

Today we officially open the doors to Citrix Converge 2020, our free, global, virtual, developer conference and hackathon. Converge comprises a total of 75 online sessions aimed at coders, scripters, and builders using Citrix technology. It includes:

• 55 breakout

Now less than three weeks away, Citrix Converge 2020 is within sight! Thanks to all who submitted session proposals — we received many more than we could fit into our two-week program! We had a hard time whittling them down, …

Local Host Cache (LHC) allows Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops users to launch new sessions when the connection between connectors and the control plane is not functioning as expected. LHC works by maintaining a subset of the site database on …

Citrix is constantly innovating with our Citrix Workspace app releases. With the launch of Citrix Workspace app 2009 for Mac, we have introduced changes to USB redirection. Let’s take a closer look at what has changed and how USB …

For a couple years now, Citrix App Layering has supported the ability to provide user persistence on non-persistent VDI platforms through user layer technology. The user layer is implemented by creating a VHD file on a share. The VHD …

It’s been an exciting week at Citrix, with the launch of our new brand and visual identity. Today, we’re keeping the good news rolling.

We’ve been hard at work developing new tools and content in the Cloud Success Center…

Red Hat’s OpenShift Operator is an open-source toolkit designed to package, deploy, and manage Kubernetes-native applications in a more effective, automated, and scalable way.

An API gateway acts as the single entry point for your APIs and ensures secure and …

This blog post was co-authored by Raghul Christus, Software Engineer at Citrix.

We often see customers start their Kubernetes journey with a single control plane node, where the Kubernetes control plane components all run on the same node. As they …

Brute force attacks occur when an attacker tries to guess a user’s credentials by trying different usernames and passwords. The attacker either deploys bots or uses a dictionary attack, trying common phrases or words such as admin, welcome, …

With its intelligent capabilities and microapp integrations, Citrix Workspace helps employees tackle their everyday tasks more efficiently and be more productive. Key components of popular business apps are isolated and exposed to end users, who can complete tasks and receive …

Citrix initially introduced Enlightened Data Transport (EDT) — our UDP-based reliable transport protocol — to help enhance the performance of ICA sessions in higher latency networks as the distance between users and their resources started to grow due to global …

Prior to Citrix ADC version 13.0, when adding any VPX instance to an SDX appliance, you needed to ensure the Management Service of SDX (SVM) was able to communicate with the VPX over the network. The SVM talks to …

Last December, we announced Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR, which delivered to customers tons of new features and enhancements. Now that companies everywhere are making remote work the norm, products like Citrix Workspace and Citrix Virtual …

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops offers rich configurations around keyboards and input method editors to support user and IT admin requirements, including languages and platforms. But configuring keyboards and IMEs correctly can be difficult because of factors like the variety …

Have you ever wanted to redirect USB devices with the Citrix Workspace app for HTML5? A lot of you have, and we’ve heard your feedback. Now, you can redirect USB devices to your remote sessions in a Chrome browser …

Citrix Analytics for Performance is now generally available. A cloud service offering, Citrix Analytics for Performance enables admins to track, aggregate and visualize key performance indicators of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops sites.

Though Citrix Analytics for Performance is …

Citrix Gateway service has proved to be useful to customers looking for a cloud-based HDX proxy that provides secure remote access through a cloud-based gateway to front-end their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments.

If you’re familiar with the solution, …

In our two previous blog posts, we talked about zero trust the Citrix way and a key use case, why traditional VPNs don’t make the cut for a zero-trust deployment.

In this post, we’ll look at a second use …

Thinking of deploying Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in AWS GovCloud East or a new Nitro-based region? Here’s what you need to know to make your Citrix deployment a success.

With the rise of the microservices, we have seen many …

MDX encryption end of life is fast approaching, and all devices must move to platform encryption before September 1. Citrix mobile productivity apps will start enforcing platform encryption with the July 2020 app versions (i.e. 20.7.x). You’ll need to have …

Today, we released permanent fixes to address the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability for Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway versions 12.1 and 13.0. These fixes are available to download for ADC and Gateway.

As with the permanent fixes made …

Thank you for reading our monthly “What’s New with Citrix Workspace” blog series! We’ve had fun bringing you a whole year of updates on the latest and greatest additions to the Citrix Workspace suite of product offerings.

As the year …

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Companies everywhere are reassessing their workplace strategies. Topics such as digital transformation, new work, digital natives, productivity enhancement, user experience, and employee satisfaction are front of mind as businesses deal with ever-changing challenges and try to build workplaces that …

One of our key areas of focus at Citrix is security, and part of that is making sure that our products comply with security standards and recommended practices as they evolve. That includes cipher suite support.

Back in June …

Citrix is preparing for upcoming changes to Android Enterprise. Google is deprecating its device administrator mode for managing Android devices. Starting with Android 10, some deprecated device administrator APIs may result in a security exception when invoked, and Google is …

Citrix Scout is an important tool in any Citrix administrator’s arsenal, enabling proactive maintenance and diagnostics on their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployment. Scout offers comprehensive, automated analysis of diagnostics collections through Citrix Insight Services and enables users to …

Session recording has been a staple in the security and monitoring of environments for years. Recording a user’s session to see their activity and fix and prevent issues has given admins the insights to keep their users safe and productive. …

This post was co-authored by Akanksha Singh, Product Manager at Citrix.

Citrix products and services have always had APIs and associated documentation, just not in one place. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Citrix APIs for Cloud Services resource …

In my previous blog we looked at the capabilities that make up an API platform. After you identify the capabilities you need, your next step should be to implement them through your own build, by licensing a solution, or …

I wanted to start this post by revisiting my five-part Security Design Decisions blog series, which you can find here and is linked throughout this blog. Its purpose was to explore the need for a robust security framework, which still …

Contextual policies and multi-factor authentication for zero-trust deployment, now available with Citrix Workspace

Citrix is committed to providing the best user experience with best-in-class security within Citrix Workspace. That’s why we’re excited to announce general availability within the Citrix …

Citrix Synergy is over, and I finally have time to write this blog — the third post I have written about the vDisk Replicator Utility (see post 1 and post 2) that I created to replicate vDisks.

I wrote …

When there’s a roadblock on the interstate, instead of waiting for it to clear, you can try to find an alternate route and bypass the barrier. Similarly, a client domain name system (DNS) resolver also requires a different path if …

Citrix is excited to introduce performance analytics for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops!

This is a new area of focus for Citrix Analytics where sophisticated machine learning is being applied to solve some challenging issues Citrix IT administrators face. …

The delivery and consumption of Office 365 applications and services often plays a critical role for companies developing their digital workspace strategy. However, there are a lot of other critical components and services required to deliver a complete workspace to …

The Citrix Consulting Security Practice team conducts assessments to help our customers improve the security of their existing Citrix solutions and to identify other technologies or configurations that could further strengthen their security posture. In the course of performing these …

Last year, we channeled the TV show Grey’s Anatomy in our pre-conference HIMSS blog post. This year, I’m bringing the message a lot closer to home.

My very Southern grandmother, Mary Lizzy Smith, was a woman of few words. …

Microsoft has joined the Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program and will complement security for Microsoft Office 365 customers by integrating with Citrix Secure Workspace Access.

Citrix and Microsoft have partnered on innovative IT technology for more than 30 years. The …

A recent survey from a European association for IT security reported that malware attacks from end-user devices, or endpoints, against online services grew by 95 percent over the last year and represent the most relevant threat (40 percent). As a

Amazon S3 is a “Simple Storage Service” offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through web services interfaces (REST, SOAP, and BitTorrent), as well as a secure method of storing files.

But getting to S3 from an …

Last year I created a utility to replicate vDisks between PVS Sites and Farms. I wrote a blog — vDisk Replication Utility — that introduced the utility and provided a ShareFile link to download it.

Both the blog and the …