Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1909

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4 years ago

Autumn is around the corner and Citrix has blessed our cold season with a new release of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Below is a selection of changes implemented in release 1909:

• Director & Studio
  • Machine Catalog tags
    Note: Only configurable from within PowerShell
  • Delivery Group – Maximum delay timer for scheduled restarts can now be configured
    • In cases of database outage at scheduled restart hours, you can now specify how long restarts can wait for restoration of database connection
      Note: Only configurable from within PowerShell
      https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/install-configure/delivery-groups-manage.html#scheduled-restart-delayed-due-to-database-outage
  • Citrix Analytics for Performance now available for your on-prem CVAD site
    https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/director/install-and-configure/onboarding.html
  • Operating systems has new naming
    • Multi-session OS (Formerly Server OS)
    • Single session OS (Formerly Desktop OS)
• Scout
  • Health check is now available to be run on Licensing servers and StoreFront servers
  • Configuration checks now run on Controllers
• Virtual Delivery Agent
  • Support for AMD hardware encoding
    Note: Only Desktop OS
    Note: Lossless text is not compatible together with AMD hardware encoding and will take precedence over hardware encoding if enabled
    Note: AMD GPU(s) must support RapidFire SDK
  • Enhanced session reliability logging capability
    Improved logging has been added
  • Bidirectional content redirection
    You can now link groups of URLs to different specified apps instead of only one
    Note: Requires Workspace App 1909
  • Cleanup of App-V Packages during installing/upgrading
    Registry key added to disable the automatic cleanup and is enabled by default
  • Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent 1909 can only be installed on Windows 10 x64 systems
• Licensing
  • Citrix Licensing 11.16.3 is now running on Apache version 2.4.39
  • Citrix Licensing 11.16.3 fixed issues

A full list of changes can be found here and if you have any questions regarding Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, feel free to email me at robert.skyllberg@xenit.se or comment down below.

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