In the past Citrix Synergy 2016, Citrix presented us with great innovations in all its products, in this article we will look at those applied to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9, which is now available for download!

In the 7.9 Secures the experience of secure applications and virtual desktops is further enhanced and offers new expanded authentication features, Improved graphics support and enhanced advanced printing capabilities. XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9 include new and improved administrative monitoring features, as well as powerful tools that simplify the maintenance of the environment, or new reports to analyze the logon process of users.

XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9 Allows Secure Single-Sign (SSO) on virtual applications and desktops using third-party accounts, decreasing the number of daily passwords needed.

Now that all organizations are preparing to move to Windows 10, either via virtual desktop or by updating said OS on your physical computer. XenDesktop Enhances Delivery of High-Quality 3D Graphics with HDX 3D Pro Technology, to provide a superior user experience. On physical equipment, Remote PC Access can be deployed much easier in Windows Secure Boot 10, allowing easier access to users.

Citrix and Nutanix continue to collaborate together, simplifying the costs and complexities of deploying apps or desktops. In this version 7.9, we will be able to provision virtual machines in the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor using Machine Creation Services directly from the Citrix Studio console. XenApp and XenDesktop remain the only secure desktop and app delivery solution based on a single infrastructure, that can be deployed on any cloud, infrastructure or hypervisor.

Thanks to other strategic agreements with hardware partners such as HP or Cisco, Citrix has integrated HDX 3D Pro technology with Intel Iris Pro virtual graphics to provide the user with a superior experience in any application where a virtual GPU is needed, being one of the novelties of XenServer 7.

And well, for me one of the great novelties that it brings, is Citrix Ready certification with HDX Verified in the use of a Raspberry Pi 3 as a Thin Client!!! The great passion that we have at Tundra IT in these products, It gives us enormous confidence to be able to offer you lightweight equipment for your users that is fully customized, A mini computer that costs less than €99 for users. A computer that after booting will load us with a Citrix Receiver optimized for GPU discharge, with a linux OS that the user will be indistinct, based on Raspbian the custom distro is ThinLinX Operating System (TLXOS). Fully manageable remotely where we can perform the most common tasks. If you are interested, Ask us for information!

Optimizations for central image management using Machine Creation Services (MCS), increasing performance by using RAM for intense read/write interactions, dramatically reducing the amount of storage required for a VDI desktop or virtual server. Available in all editions of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9, Machine Creation Services RAM-based caching technology will improve the user experience by taking advantage of the high performance of local RAM, offloading and alleviating scalability dependencies from shared storage solutions, that are more expensive. Based on the same technology as 'PVS' – Cache in RAM with overflow on hard disk', giving savings of the 95% IOPS!

Provisioning Services images can be deployed using a small local drive, known as Boot Device Manager (BDM), Now the image display wizard will allow us to choose this option, as not all environments support PXE and DHCP, the use of new firmwares such as UEFI would also be supported.

Universal Print Server and Universal Print Driver Enhancements, with more functions when printing for our users such as the origin of the paper, Stapling... New policies for balancing print jobs across multiple print servers to optimize queue jobs!

More: Support for CentOS as an OS to be used either as a Server or Desktop, by installing the VDA, we will give users a Linux environment, with the advantages that come with! Windows Server Support 2016 Tech Preview 5. New Citrix Receiver for Android and Chrome for HTML5, More intuitive and with new toolbars for users. What's new in System Center Operations Manager, brings a new connector and an updated version of AppDNA. We have Secure Browser, partnering with Lakeside Software to provide us with free reports in a web application and using Skype for Business; Assesses the browsers that are used, the most visited web applications, and plugin compatibility issues. With Skype for Business it shows us how many versions of Lync or Skype are used in the environment, Who uses them and how, in addition to how much data is stored insecurely on users' terminals. A new high-density NVIDIA GPU card, the Tesla M10, makes this possible. Enable more than 100 users per server and will be priced at around 2000€!!!