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Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 2109

October 12, 2021
Thomas Poppelgaard
AWS, Azure, Citrix, GCP

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 2109. So its time to upgrade your environment before Winter, a good time to clean up and update your environment and start good before winter is here :O).

Important features are support for the new bloomberg5 keyboard, improved UX support for Microsoft Teams and Windows 11 across all Citrix components.

Release 7 2109 is now available for download, 1th October, 2021.

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 2109 is a CR release. Read more about CR here

Citrix Virtual Apps (former name: XenApp) Citrix Virtual Desktop (former name: XenDesktop)

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies:

Windows 11 support
Director 2109
Citrix Licensing 11.17.2
Virtual Delivery Agents 2109 for ServerOS and ClientOS
Virtual Delivery Agent 2109 for Linux
Citrix Federated Authentication Service 2109
Citrix Provisioning 2109
Profile Management 2109
Workspace Environment Management 2109
Session Recording 2109
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Service (October 2021)
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Standard for Azure (October 2021)
Citrix Cloud Health Check
Workspace App 2109 for Windows
Workspace App 2109 for Linux
Workspace App 2109 for Chrome
Workspace App 2109 for Android
Workspace App 2109 for MacOS
Workspace App 2109 for HTML5
Workspace App 2109 for ChromeOS

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 1909

September 19, 2019
Thomas Poppelgaard
Citrix

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 1909.

Release is now available for download, September 19, 2019.

Citrix Virtual Apps (former name: XenApp) Citrix Virtual Desktop (former name: XenDesktop)

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies:

Director 1909
Virtual Delivery Agents 1909 for ServerOS and ClientOS
Virtual Delivery Agent 1909 for Linux
Citrix Licensing 11.16
Citrix Federated Authentication Service 1909
Storefront 1909
Provisioning 1909
Profile Management 1909
Workspace Environment Management 1909
Session Recording 1909
Workspace App 1909 for Linux
Workspace App 1909 for Chrome
Workspace App 1909 for Android
Workspace App 1909 for HTML5
Workspace App 1909 for ChromeOS

HPE m710x & Citrix – Next generation engineer workstation

HPE m710x & Citrix – Next gen engineer workstation

HPE Proliant server cartridge m510 and m710x building blocks for Citrix

HPE have released new server cartridges m510 and m710x for HPE Moonshot and Edgeline. These new server cartridges are the first units that have built-in HPE iLO, so customers can easy manage each server cartridge.

Moonshot cartridge building blocks for Citrix workloads

Below chart describes what HPE Moonshot/Edgeline current strategy is for GPU enabled apps and desktops with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.

hpe_moonshot_edgeline2

Citrix XenDesktop 7.11 and XenApp 7.11

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix XenDesktop 7.11 and XenApp 7.11 and is now available for download.

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies

Virtual Delivery Agents 7.11 for ServerOS and ClientOS
AppDNA 7.11
Storefront 3.7
Provisioning Services 7.11
Profile Management 5.5
License Server 11.14
Citrix Receiver 15.0 for Windows
HDX RealTime Optimization Pack 2.1.1 for Microsoft Skype® for Busines
Citrix SCOM Management Bundle for XenApp and XenDesktop (2016_08_24)
Linux Virtual Delivery Agent 1.4
Tech preview for HTML5 redirection

This release is an important release no matter if you are working daily with Office application such as Excel, Word or Browsers and even highend applications such as CAD. The features in 7.11 have important improved user experience from the VDA to the Receiver that improves dramtically the user experience. NVIDIA NVENC technology is now part of VDA and supports even multiple monitors. The admin can now monitor RTT within Director this feature have been something I have asked for very long time and now finally its in the product, customer will love this new feature so its fast to see where the issue is in a infrastructure with which users that have latency issues. Version 7.11 is the release that fully supports Microsoft Windows Server 2016 that is soon GA, this means you can install Delivery components on Windows Server 2016, VDA on Server 2016, use Azure N-series with support for Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) or you can use it onpremises with Hyper-V. Support for UWP is HUGE and I am very excited about this technology and this also used in Microsoft Hololens so cant wait to a Receiver for hololens so you can publish UWP apps to Hololens 😉 Imagine that. I can keep going on with all these new features lets dig in below and learn whats new, its incredible that Citrix raises the bar and comes with huge improvements and they this each 3 months 🙂 yes each 3months, you read it correct. If you dont have a plan for this in your company I highly recommend you build a strategy on how you upgrade you Citrix environment frequently to get these awesome new features.