What's new and upcoming with Citrix technology and features

To enhance the troubleshooting process of Cloud Connectors, we will merge the standalone connectivity check tool into the built-in tool available with all connector installations.

Until now, FAS has only supported RSA keys for use in its certificates. With this change FAS will introduce support for ECC certificates.

Current methods of storing private keys have been a pain point for admins to manage and currently is not preserved over FAS upgrades. With this change, configuration changes to how user and RA certificate private keys are stored will be handled separately, simplified, and preserved over upgrades.

Ensure alerts for offline Connectors are sent within 15 minutes of the Connector going offline.

Currently FAS relies on the Microsoft Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) for cryptographic operations within FAS. This has been replaced with the Microsoft Key Storage provider (KSP) which includes a number of modern cryptographic methods such as probabilistic padding (PSS) and operations for Elliptic Curves (ECC).

New in App Layering 2309, there is now an image template option which, when enabled, defragments the published image created from the App Layering appliance.  

The App Layering appliance system OS will be upgraded to a modern release of Linux.

Connector Appliance support is available for Citrix Cloud Japan control plane environment, providing benefits such as AD multi-domain connectivity.

In AWS environments, you can create an MCSIO enabled MCS machine catalog. This feature is supported only for non-persistent machine catalogs.

Using Full Configuration, you can now change the size of MCS-provisioned VMs in Azure environments. The feature applies to both persistent VMs and non-persistent VMs.