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Citrix DaaSFormerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops / XenDesktop & XenApp
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What is Citrix DaaS?
Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or XenDesktop) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application virtualization solution from Citrix.
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What is Citrix DaaS?
To meet the needs of an increasingly flexible workforce, organizations are turning to desktop as aservice (DaaS) and VDI solutions to provide high-performing, adaptive workspaces. Citrix DaaS modernizes IT with a secure cloud solution to quickly deliver apps or desktops from any cloud or datacenter worldwide.
With Citrix DaaS, IT can seamlessly deploy and manage hybrid work environments to increase business agility and deliver an enhanced user experience at scale. Built-in Citrix high-definition HDX technologies increase productivity, providing real-time network and performance optimization for even the most demanding 3D, voice, or video applications. Enhanced security and policy controls protect sensitive data to securely deliver vital resources anywhere to any device.
With Citrix DaaS, IT can seamlessly deploy and manage hybrid work environments to increase business agility and deliver an enhanced user experience at scale. Built-in Citrix high-definition HDX technologies increase productivity, providing real-time network and performance optimization for even the most demanding 3D, voice, or video applications. Enhanced security and policy controls protect sensitive data to securely deliver vital resources anywhere to any device.
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Citrix DaaS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or XenDesktop) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application virtualization solution from Citrix.
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The most common users of Citrix DaaS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, previously known as XenApp and XenDesktop, have been widely adopted by organizations for a variety of use cases. Users have found that this software provides seamless access to virtualized desktops and applications across multiple satellite locations, enabling teams to work collaboratively and efficiently. It has also been deployed in data centers, supporting various clients and applications including published desktops and development applications.
One of the key benefits of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is its ability to facilitate remote work. Many organizations have relied on this software to provide their employees with secure access to desktops and applications from anywhere, ensuring business continuity even in challenging circumstances such as during the Covid-19 pandemic. Call center agents, testing teams, and general remote workers have leveraged this solution to maintain a strong security posture while enjoying a good user experience. Contractors, consultants, and remote workers have also found secure remote access through Citrix Virtual Apps valuable for their specific needs.
Another noteworthy use case of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is its ability to provide remote desktop access to applications and servers, reducing infrastructure costs and eliminating the need for a dedicated data center. By giving users the flexibility to connect to business applications, utilities, and production servers remotely, the software streamlines IT operations while cutting down on maintenance efforts. Moreover, it has proven beneficial for organizations handling sensitive data or those seeking to provide offshore developers with secure access to internal company resources.
Overall, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops have addressed the diverse needs of businesses across industries. From ensuring seamless collaboration between distributed teams to enabling secure remote access to critical resources, this software has become an integral part of many organizations' IT infrastructure. Its ability to provide fast connections, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance productivity has made it a preferred solution for various use cases within enterprises globally.
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- Best performance on low bandwith or big latency.
- Great user experience
- Use it on any device, anywhere
- Easy management
- Secure platform
- Licensing is complex, no more option to buy license (only subscriptions).
- Citrix should stop renaming every product and suites regularly.
- More fair pricing (solutions can be very expensive).
July 25, 2022
The fastest way to use your apps
- fast
- easy to use (from end user perspective)
- customization respect to business role
- possibility to restart the single app
- internal chat
- embed collaboration
July 18, 2022
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Excel
- Edge
- Chrome
- Area to request access from Admin for certain programs, rather than separate portal.
July 18, 2022
Good virtual product, easy to use an manage.
- Mobility, any where, any computer
- easy to use
- not much computer resource required
- file sharing from local PC to the citrix laptop or application
- better mobile app, for iPad users
- Audio and Video optimization can improve
- Remote Desktop Connectivity which is secure.
- We were able to manage everything centrally without having to update each system individually.
- Quick security updates and patches are provided to Central Point regularly. Hence makes it very secure against any new threats.
- It is very cost-effective as compared to building your own network and in-house network team to maintain the same.
- It allows you access to your applications and servers on the move. Allows Mobility
- Complex architecture and licensing structure
- expensive setup and ongoing costs in comparison to its peers.
- Becomes slow sometimes and you face network issues because of various interlinked dependencies.
July 13, 2022
Fully reccommend this Great Tool
- Give employees freedom to work from anywhere.
- Management of VMs easy and reduces costs.
- Versatile
- Best performance and stability.
- Linux installation.
- Support cases some time take long time to solve.
- Ideal for large companies.
July 12, 2022
Honest Review
- Virtual Apps
- VDI Solution
- Printing
- A single console to manage the environment.
- The configuration is a bit complicated and we have hired Citrix administrators. But it's a good solution.
- User profiles need improvement. They could use more stability and more functionality as well as user profile redirection.
July 12, 2022
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Remote Work
- Access to their work remotely.
- Good customer support.
- Easy to login to the system.
- Better mobile app access and functionality.
- High cost of using this service.
- Service connection issues can lag at times.
July 12, 2022
Citrix - you got it all in one applications access
- Maintaining centralize access to all business applications without the need to worry of firewall/proxy configuration.
- You are getting the feeling of working on local application without the need to install/configure/maintaining the applications
- Access to production servers without the need to move between several remote desktop hops.
- In my experience, file sharing is not working well, when you need to copy or access files from your local to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, it is performing very bad
- Maybe add support for managing the applications in a folder structure to make it easier to find your application.
- It is working like a sandbox but with it, installation of apps on the Citrix desktop not always act like installation of apps on local machine.
- Centralize management of application and desktop
- Offline ability
- Low bandwidth connection
- Setup of server farm is complex
- Cost
July 11, 2022
Citrix Virtual Apps is great for users
- Gateway to all software, data, etc.
- Smooth transition on desktop or laptop
- user friendly
- help online could be enhanced
June 02, 2022
XenDesktop thoughts found here
- Flexibility to find the best configuration for your company's needs.
- Good options/tools for managing the environment.
- Suite of products that support XenDesktop like Storefront and NetScaler.
- Well established company in Citrix that has been developing this technology for over 20 years.
- While you can present multiple global sites in one pane of glass to users, from an administrative standpoint they must be managed separately.
- XenDesktop is more complex than previous Citrix products (XenApp).
- using modeling software like smart plant 3D on Citrix Virtual App
- using virtual desktop on Citrix Virtual App
- using remote connection via Citrix Virtual App
- sometimes you don see the application you want to use, it gets hidden automatically. Then, we need to take the help of IT.
- It should tell if the network connectivity is proper or not instead of clashing frequently without popping out any information
February 24, 2022
Best use case for Citrix Virtual Apps
- Provides access to an entire computer desktop session.
- Provides access to single published applications.
- Configurable to provide read only access to a desktop or application.
- Allows for apply Citrix and AD group policies for secure and enhanced access.
- More built in reporting from Citrix Director.
- Easier to manage and upgrade Virtual Delivery Agents.
- Enhance the Citrix Gateway interface on the NetScaler.
- Make it easier to customize the Citrix Gateway UI dashboard.
July 07, 2021
Citrix for small business
- Secure - several layers
- Ease of use - just log in to the web portal
- Great support when I do have an issue
- I wanted to expand use for the COVID quarantine and work from home directive, but Citrix refused to allow temporary or short term licenses
- Licenses are very expensive
- Implementation and configuration does require a high end skill set
July 01, 2021
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops enables WFH!
- accessing your work computer on the go
- ease of logging on
- high adoption across multiple users
- bookmarking the landing page could be easier
- better mobile app
- quicker log on speeds
June 10, 2021
Securely Access Anywhere, Run Anywhere - Workspaces
- Enables remote access anywhere, to any device which eliminates managing the endpoints how traditional VPN would require.
- Integrates well with modern applications to offer optimized user experiences similar to native applications which increases user acceptance.
- Extremely flexible in how policies are applied to different use cases to ensure the appropriate security mitigations are in place with minimal effort.
- Easy to maintain and expand environments to fit business needs.
- There isn't much automation built-in beyond Machine Creation Services, so you must develop a lot of your own code - though their PowerShell module is excellent.
- General monitoring is decent and has the ability to send email alerts, but the scope is very limited to mostly user experience components or requires the most expensive license level to get some additional support - though that also requires other software to be owned.
- Allowing more customizations to the "Director" support web tool would really allow for ease of use by management and help desk users in ways that simplify there workflows.
May 09, 2021
Easy to manage virtual server/desktop solution
- You can login from anywhere you have an internet connection.
- You have a fast virtual desktop without the user having a fast desktop.
- It's easy to manage from a support perspective.
- Profiles that are as easy to configure and managed as FSLogix.
- We use WEM as a workspace environment manager but it could still learn a lot from products like Ivanti Workspace Control.
- Using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop) allows you to do a one to many deployments with apps. Whether you stream them to desktops or host them via web protocols, you can install it once and allow many to use.
- If you want to minimize IT resources, you can use this program to produce virtual desktops that can be static or allow users to change as needed. There is no need to go to each desk to fix issues with their desktops when they are all centralized and managed via Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop).
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop) has a great protocol (HDX) that minimizes bandwidth needs allowing you to use Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop) to offices or devices with slower internet connections.
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop) has a great management interface that allows granular control over all your apps and desktops.
- Users can bring their own device, whether a mobile or PC type.
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Formerly XenDesktop) does have a bit of a learning curve and can get complex at times.
- Pricing on the system can be a little steep for large deployments considering it is an add on to MS Terminal Services/RDS.
- An issue that is probably not Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop) specific, but since these are virtual apps if used on a connection that has high latency or frequent internet drops users can become frustrated. Unlike true web services, users do require a solid internet connection. Slow is ok; latency is not.
December 27, 2019
High Quality VDI Solution
- It has a really good end-user experience when using desktop features.
- It's easy to use Citrix Storefront.
- Optimization for audio and video is not the best.
- Logging is very weak and makes it hard to troubleshoot issues.
November 26, 2019
Citrix review
- Centralize data.
- Ease of user desktop management.
- Standardization of desktops.
- It's not cheap to operate.
- Complex, there are a lot of moving parts, so it takes some dedication to set up and manage.
- The constant changing of names is annoying (i.e., Virtual Apps and Desktops—formerly XenDesktop).
September 10, 2019
XenDesktop is a win!
- Fast connection
- Secure connection
- Ease of use for new and existing users
- Simple user interface
- Can run a little slow depending on the applications
- Overall desktop lag is present
- Works with Mac but not without issue occasionally.
- All Management resources can now be installed on a single server. Reducing the overhead required to maintain a citrix environment.
- Granularity of the Delivery groups allow you to define allowing a remote user to connect to a random XenDesktop VM or individually assigning VMs to users.
- HDX RealTime Optimization Pack has stabilized some of the issues of utilizing all of the features of Skype for Business in a ZenDesktop VM.
- Product documentation is bloated with information and lacks documentation on assisting with first time setup.
- Customer service offers very little assistance when it comes to using your support contract.
- Default Policy, out of the box, allows Clipboard, File Share, Printer Sharing, Drive redirection, and others security risks that should be disabled by default.
- Screenshots are not prevented, other products blank a screenshot or sniping tool image. Watermarks are the only security citrix offers and are disabled by default.
- Renewal cost of support contract is 80% of initial purchase price. Other companies renewal cost is significantly less.
- End users who do not properly log off can leave a hung connection, and requires manual deletion of the connection for users to re-connect.
January 25, 2019
High performance and ease of management
- Management of the entire solution is central and intuitive.
- Printing is simple and easy to manage.
- Deploying the client and updating it are a challenge at times.
January 19, 2019
Farming with Citrix will save you time and money
- Good tech support.
- Install/upgrade process is easy to follow.
- Citrix Studio is excellent for managing everything from machine catalogs, licensing, controller, etc... one stop shop.
- Policies are sometimes too confusing to understand.
- I would like to be able to clean up user profiles form Citrix Studio.
- Add printer setup and configuration to Citrix Studio.