February 2025
Feb 27
Power management of Azure Arc-enabled VMs on Azure Local
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In DevelopmentCitrix Provisioning and App Layering
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With this feature, MCS will support Azure Local as a new platform, and thus, support:
Power management of manually created Azure Arc-enabled VMs on Azure Local with new hosting connection Azure Arc.
Feb 27
Support provisioning of PVS target devices in Azure Local
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In DevelopmentCitrix Provisioning and App Layering
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With this feature, MCS will support provisioning and power management of Citrix Provisioning target devices in Azure Local through Azure Arc plugin.
Feb 27
Support for provisioning Azure Arc-enabled VMs on Azure Local
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In DevelopmentCitrix Provisioning and App Layering
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With this feature, MCS will support Azure Local as a new platform, and thus, support:
Provisioning of Azure Arc-enabled VMs on Azure Local.
Feb 27
Share encrypted prepared image across regions in Azure
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ReleasingCitrix Provisioning and App Layering
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With this feature, you can share an encrypted prepared ACG image across multiple regions in the same subscription and tenant using Disk Encryption Set (DES).
Feb 27
Create Microsoft Entra Joined and Microsoft Intune enrolled catalogs with prepared images
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ReleasingCitrix Provisioning and App Layering
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With this feature, you can now use prepared images to create Microsoft Entra Joined and Microsoft Intune enrolled catalogs using Studio and PowerShell commands.
Feb 27
Service account for routing Azure AD Identity traffic
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In DevelopmentCitrix Provisioning and App Layering
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Using this feature, you can create and modify a Microsoft Entra service account to route Microsoft Entra ID traffic from Delivery Controller to Microsoft Entra through Citrix Cloud Connector to enhance security.
Feb 27
AWS Support Provisioning Data Disk
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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
Citrix admins now have the capability to provision a catalog of VMs with persistent data disks (i.e., secondary volumes) in AWS environments. Previously, master images (AMIs) with secondary volumes attached were not allowed, only AMIs with just a root volume. This capability will now allow admins to use AMIs with a secondary volume to provision VMs with a persistent data disk.
Feb 27
AWS Support Cross-account provisioning
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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
There are scenarios where the Cloud Connectors or Delivery Controllers would like to be placed in separate AWS accounts from that of their MCS-provisioned machine catalog accounts. To support such scenarios, this feature will leverage VPC peering and cross-account access using IAM roles to make provisioning across different AWS accounts possible for enterprises managing multiple AWS accounts.
Feb 27
AWS Support for backup SKU list for VMs
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Citrix Provisioning and App Layering
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Support for backup SKU list for VMs in AWS
With this feature, in the AWS virtualization environment, you can provide a list of backup EC2 instance types (“Backup SKUs”) using PowerShell that MCS can fallback to in case of capacity-related issues.
Feb 19
Upcoming Removal of MMC-based Studio
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As part of our transition to Web Studio, the MMC-based Studio will be removed from the CR 2511 installer. This change establishes Web Studio as the single management console, providing administrators with a consistent experience, modern interface, streamlined workflows, and enhanced capabilities.