What's new and upcoming with Citrix technology and features

Image Portability Service has added support for managing images that are configured to use MCSIO.

Distributors will be able to access license usage data for all their partners through the Citrix Cloud API to help with reviewing and validating partner usage reports. 

We have introduced a new Citrix Performance Analytics data API interface - ODATA v4 REST API to enable export of historical and aggregated data for Citrix Performance Analytics. Customers can leverage this new API for troubleshooting and triaging real time sessions and building executive reporting dashboards using the Citrix Performance Analytics data set.

Automated ability to turn off machines when end user has taken time off

Ease the administration of Local Host Cache by enabling administrators to use new PowerShell commands for LHC settings.

This feature allows you to choose the Vertical Load Balancing method at a delivery group level. With this feature, each machine is aligned to the maximum load index before the next machine is powered on. This feature achieves maximum utilization for each machine and cost savings in public clouds. This feature offers more flexibility in managing the load balancing strategies for machines.    

Admins can now deploy a specific iOS update for the iOS-supervised devices.

In Azure environments, you can create an MCS machine catalog that supports hibernation. Using this feature, you can suspend a VM, and then reconnect to the previous state of the VM when a user signs in again.

With this enhancement, it will be possible to change the password by calling an API, authenticating to it by using the old password.

Azure has a secret environment where the endpoints of Azure services are a secret. To support the Azure secret region, you can now configure endpoint URLs of required services.