What's new in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.11

Citrix recently released its new product version of XenApp and XenDesktop, after the version 7.9 the 7.11, As you probably know, the version 7.10 so as not to give rise to misunderstandings with the versioning of the 7.1. EIn this article we are going to try to summarize all the new features and product improvements.

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Windows Server Support 2016 for any role, Are: Delivery Controller, Storefront, Studio, Director, Server VDA, Session Recording Server & Agent and Universal Print Server.

Other versions of 7.x will also have Windows support 2016, through a patch that you can download to update your farm.

XenApp and XenDesktop 7.11 can be installed on Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016.

Provisioning apps and desktop payloads in Azure Resource Manager and integration enhancements with App-V.

Improvements in the delivery of apps streamed with App-V to VDA servers, Apps can now coexist in the same isolation layer, since it is common for them to need to interact with each other.

Another great new feature is the ability to deliver applications from Linux computers (with VDA installed), delivery of any app to anyone who has a Receiver! Until now we could only deliver full desktops.

Citrix Profile Management will control profile corruption by performing NTUSER Smart Backups. DAT.

Zone Improvements, We can define a user's geographical area in order to associate apps that reside in one DPC or another, for more factors such as where your mobile profile resides, etc...

New HDX policy that allows codec to be selected for compression, combining Thinwire Compatible Mode (ECM) and H.264.

Also very interesting, will be the publication of content, We may publish URLs, Documents from Network Resources. For now, will be done via command line, we'll run it in a PowerShell with the cmdlets loaded!

Citrix's recent acquisition of Norskale, brings us Workspace Environment Manager. If we are Enterprise or Platinum we will enjoy the best solution for managing the users' workspace. Integrating and enhancing our User Profile solution, optimizing performance to accelerate application delivery and have better response time.

Citrix StoreFront 3.7 brings many new features, Including, Receiver para Web, Now supports being accessible from smart phones (ios, Android and Windows), A cool and mobile-friendly design remains. That's how it would stay:

Platinum Edition Customers,

And a long list of enhancements for Platinum Edition customers:

Citrix Director keeps a long history of metrics for reporting usage as per CPU, memory, resource alerts... integrates seamlessly with NetScaler MAS and Octoblu.

Self-Service Password Reset will help users unlock their accounts seamlessly into Receiver for Windows, Mac, Linux or directly on the StoreFront site. They will do so through a series of unique questions that will be preconfigured in advance.