What's new in Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop 7.7
Recientemente Citrix publicó su nueva versión de sus productos estrella: XenApp and XenDesktop, en este artículo trataremos de acercaros las todas las principales novedades. In addition, también han presentado: Profile Management 5.4, Provisioning Services 7.7, Desktop Director, HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.0, License server 11.13.1 y una nueva versión de Citrix Receiver! Citrix Receiver para Windows 4.4, Receiver 13.3 for Linux, Receiver 1.9 para Chrome y Receiver 1.9 para HTML5.
What's new in Citrix XenApp 7.7 and Citrix XenDesktop 7.7
Zonas
Citrix recupera de nuevo las Zonas, tan imprescindibles en entornos con oficinas remotas separados mediante una WAN. Gracias a las zonas, conseguiremos fácilmente que los usuarios se conecten a sus recursos locales sin tener que realizar conexiones con latencias altas.
Therefore,, ahora no solo podremos tener entornos multi site, donde cada site tiene su propia base de datos (que esto sigue siendo recomendado para entornos grandes), but now we will finally have a single site with multiple zones, with a database and managed from a single console!
Database
Improvements in flow and configuration, when creating the site we can specify different databases for the site separately, Logs and monitoring database. Until now we only had one database with all the content.
We will be able to add the Delivery Controllers whenever we want, since until now we could only add them right after creating the Site.
Limits on applications
Finally, we regain this option, now we will be able to limit the number of times an application can be opened, With this, we will be able to limit its opening to a number of users who work with this application simultaneously.
Citrix Director
- We will be able to create preventive alerts and notifications based on limits
- Integration with SCOM (Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager)
- Integrated Windows authentication is allowed to log in to this large console.
- New views that show us the usage of VDA with desktop OS ordered by site or delivery group, as well as server OS. Providing us with real-time visibility of the needs throughout the organization to meet it with more capacity if necessary!
Provisioning Services 7.7
- Support also for Windows 10 as Guest OS.
- Support for VHDX! achieving a remarkable improvement in provisioning performance!
- UEFI supported in pre-boot.
- Multiple CPU BootStrap supported so booting is faster as well.
- And wizard to provision vGPU with XenDesktop!
More
Notifications through scheduled messages when a machine is going to restart or when it is going to update from a master image, Windows support 10, connection to Microsoft Azure resources…
Differences table
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| Differences between Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop 7.7 | ||
| XenApp 6.5 | XenApp / XenDesktop 7.7 | |
| IMA – Independent Management Architecture | FMA – FlexCast Management Architecture | |
| Farm | Site | |
| Worked Group | Machine Catalog | |
| Delivery Group | ||
| Worker | VDA – Virtual Delivery Agent | |
| Server OS machine, Server OS VDA | ||
| Desktop OS machine, Desktop OS VDA | ||
| Remote Desktop Services (RDS) or Machine with Terminal Services | Server OS machine, Server OS VDA | |
| Zone and Data Collector | Delivery Controller | |
| Delivery Service Console | Citrix Studio and Citrix Director | |
| Application Publishing | Delivery Applications | |
| Data Store | Database | |
| Load Evaluator | Load Management Policy | |
| Administrator | Delegated Administrator | |
| Role | ||
| Scope | ||
| Components | ||
| XenApp 6.5 | XenApp / XenDesktop 7.7 | |
| Session Prelaunching and Session Lingering configured through policies. | Session Prelaunching and Session Lingering are configured by editing the settings of the Delivery Group. | |
| Just like in XenApp 6.5, these features help users connect to applications quickly, by starting sessions before they are requested (pre-launch session) and keeping sessions active after a user closes all applications (Lingering session). In XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x, enables these features for specified users by configuring the existing Delivery Group settings. | ||
| Support for authenticated users (anonymous) provided by granting anonymous user rights when configuring the properties of published applications | Support for authenticated users (anonymous) provided, is carried out by configuring the user properties options of a Delivery Group | |
| Local Host Cache allows servers, to operate even when a connection to the Data Store is not available | Connection Leasing, enables this reconnection functionality for users, both at the application and desktop levels, when the Site is not available, and is based on SQL Server in high availability as a best practice. | |
| Application Streaming | It is replaced by App-V and managed from Studio. | |
| Web Interface | Citrix recommends migrating to StoreFront. | |
| SmartAuditor | Use Session Recording. | |
You have more information at: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-7/what-is-new.html
