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The subscriber is then automatically authenticated to each cloud-hosted service purchased for Citrix Workspace, which helps increase security and reduce usability challenges. For more information on configuring Workspace authentication, visit Secure workspaces. Getting started with Citrix Workspace involves the following tasks. Beyond this basic setup, you have other security, privacy, and optimization options to choose from.

The most common are:. For an overview of the tasks and the information needed as you progress in your deployment, see Get started with Citrix Workspace.

Each step guides you through the Citrix Cloud console with instructions for tasks like configuring your identity provider and enabling services. The walkthrough also provides quick access to technical information needed for assembling your deployment team, and configuring your infrastructure and resources. Subscribers use Citrix Workspace to access the resources provided by cloud-hosted services. Existing Citrix Cloud customers can transition to the full digital workspace experience by taking these services with them into the Citrix Workspace solution.

This section describes the main cloud-hosted services that can be enabled for Citrix Workspace, depending on your entitlements. For information on how to configure and enable access to your purchased services, visit Get started with Citrix Workspace. For a complete description of each Citrix Workspace edition and included features, see the Citrix Workspace Feature Matrix. Citrix Workspace is the multitenant, cloud-hosted access point to Citrix DaaS. The option you choose depends on whether you want to fully migrate to the cloud or adopt a hybrid solution, and whether you plan to allow external access.

This allows end users to access and collaborate on content through the Files tab in the Workspace UI or Citrix Files app. Once this process is complete, subscribers see the Files tab in the left-side navigation of the Citrix Workspace UI. The exact steps and the order in which you follow them depend on your starting point and desired end state. For an overview of the steps involved, visit Access and share files with Content Collaboration through Citrix Workspace.

The Citrix Gateway service delivers a unified experience to SaaS apps, and Virtual Apps and Desktops, by providing external connectivity to workspaces based on an advanced policy infrastructure. Follow the steps to set up the Citrix Gateway service , then test and share the Workspace URL with your subscribers to give them remote access. Integrate the Citrix Remote Browser Isolation service into your workspaces to isolate web browsing and protect the corporate network from browser-based attacks.

When subscribers navigate to the Workspace URL, their published browsers are shown, along with other apps and desktops that are configured in other Citrix Cloud services. To give subscribers access to a remote isolated browser, set up Remote Browser Isolation , and then test and share the Workspace URL with your subscribers.

Citrix Endpoint Management allows you to manage device and app policies with strict security for identity, devices, apps, data, and networks. Integration with Citrix Workspace differs for new and existing customers. The Citrix Analytics service gathers and provides insights on all your Citrix Workspace subscribers. There are different Citrix Analytics offerings available to you depending on your entitlements. What's new? Sign up for Citrix Cloud Add administrators.

Check connectivity requirements Configure identity providers. Build your team Install cloud connectors. Manage authentication. Choose subscriber authentication method Configure administrator access to Workspace Configuration.

Get ready for roll out. Configure your workspace URL Find adoption resources. Get started. Get started Configure workspaces. Integrate services. Configure purchased services for your workspace step 1 Enable services in Workspace Configuration step 2. Customize your workspace appearance Customize workspace interactions. Each resource location is considered a zone. Delivery Controllers: Citrix DaaS provides the functionality to load balance applications and desktops, authenticate users, and broker or prioritize connections directly from the cloud, without the need to manage Delivery Controllers, as with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.

Databases: Site configuration, monitoring, and configuration logging data is stored by the cloud service, eliminating the SQL database requirement of the on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops product. Management interfaces: See Management interfaces.

Many tasks are also available in service APIs. Monitor interface: The Monitor interface enables IT support and help desk teams to monitor an environment, troubleshoot issues before they become critical, and perform support tasks for end users.

Displays include:. Cloud Connectors: A Cloud Connector is the communications channel between the components in the Citrix Cloud and components in the resource location.

Every resource location contains at least one Cloud Connector. Two or more Cloud Connectors are recommended for redundancy.

After Cloud Connectors are installed, Citrix manages and updates them. The only tasks handled by the customer are Cloud Connector Windows updates and patching. Get an overview of your Citrix DaaS deployment and the latest features from the Home page. Create and manage connections to hosts. Create and manage catalogs of machines that contain apps and desktops you deliver to your users. Create and manage delivery groups and optionally, application groups.

Create and manage Citrix policies that affect the use and behavior of HDX technologies and features, plus site-level management. This includes policy settings for sessions, adaptive transport, devices, graphics, multimedia, content redirection, and VDAs.

Customize delegated administration to create role-based administrators who have specific scopes of authority. Manage the Autoscale feature to proactively power manage machines that deliver apps and desktops. Run health checks on your VDAs to identify potential issues and fix suggestions. Display configuration log content to see when configuration changes and other administrative activities occurred, and who initiated them.

From Quick Deploy, you can:. Create and manage catalogs. Create and customize images, either from various Citrix prepared images, or from images you import from your Azure subscription. For more information, see Quick Deploy.

From the Environment Management interface, you can use intelligent resource management and Profile Management technologies to deliver the best possible performance, desktop logon, and application response times. For more information, see Workspace Environment Management. It provides a single secure point of access through the corporate firewall. Citrix installs and manages the Citrix Gateway service in Citrix Cloud.

You can also optionally install Citrix Gateway in resource locations. Active Directory: Active Directory is used for authentication and authorization.

It authenticates users and ensures that they are getting access to appropriate resources. This identity comes from Active Directory domain accounts provided from the domains within the resource location. For more information, see:. VDAs for Windows single-session operating systems allow one user to connect to a machine at a time. It contains a subset of the features in the full single-session VDA. The Remote PC Access feature is usually used with physical machines. Therefore, it does not use hypervisors or cloud services for machine provisioning.

When using the Full Configuration interface, you create a connection to a supported host hypervisor or cloud service. Then from Full Configuration, you use an image created through that host to create a catalog of machines that contain the app and desktop instances. Then you create a delivery group. Citrix provides many tools to simplify and facilitate how these session hosts are built and maintained. When using Quick Deploy to deliver Azure workloads, you only need to create the catalog. Although you can use your own Azure subscription when creating the catalog, using a Citrix Managed Azure subscription eliminates your need to manage the host, too.

The app and desktop instances that you publish can be on-premises, hosted in public clouds, or in a hybrid mixture of both. It is used as the web interface for access to applications and desktops.

You can optionally install StoreFront servers in resource locations. Having local stores can help deliver apps and desktops during network outages. See User access for considerations for using StoreFront in a service environment. Host connection: A host connection mentioned earlier helps enable communication between components in the control plane Citrix Cloud and VDAs in a resource location.

Connection specifications include:. And if you use Citrix Managed Azure , Citrix manages the hosting, as well. When creating a catalog, you usually use an image, which is also known as a template. Remote PC Access catalogs usually contain physical machines, so no image is needed. When using Quick Deploy, Citrix provides several Citrix prepared images you can use to create your own customized images.

Or, you can import images from your own Azure subscription. When using Full Configuration to create VMs using a supported host type, the image usually must be created and reside on a host machine. When creating the catalog, you provide the path to that image. For more information about MCS, see Image management.

When using Quick Deploy, a delivery group is created automatically. It appears only in the Full Configuration interface. Application group: Application groups let you manage collections of applications. You can create application groups for applications shared across different delivery groups or used by a subset of users within delivery groups. Application groups are optional.

Using Citrix Managed Azure simplifies the deployment of virtual apps and desktops from Azure. Citrix manages the infrastructure for hosting Azure workloads. With Citrix Managed Azure, you get a dedicated Citrix-managed Azure subscription and resource location. In that Azure subscription, you create a catalog of VMs. You can:. Even though Citrix manages Azure capacity, if you want to communicate with existing resources on your own Azure subscription, you can use Azure VNet peering to connect resources.

For information about security and responsibilities when using Citrix Managed Azure, see Technical security overview for Citrix Managed Azure. Citrix Managed Azure is supported on the following service offerings:. For details, see Sign up for Citrix DaaS. Deploying and managing Citrix Managed Azure from this service uses the Quick Deploy management interface. The workspace URL is posted in two places:. Test and then share the workspace URL link with your subscribers users to give them access to their apps and desktops.

Your subscribers can access the workspace URL without any additional configuration. From the user side, Citrix Workspace app is installed on user devices and other endpoints, such as virtual desktops. Citrix Workspace app provides users with secure, self-service access to documents, applications, and desktops from any device, including smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

Citrix Workspace app is available for various operating systems. For details, see Citrix Workspace app. Citrix DaaS is designed using industry best practices to achieve cloud scale and a high degree of service availability. The calculation of this Service Level Goal will not include loss of availability from the following causes:.

To learn how to set up your deployment, start with Plan and build a deployment. That summary guides you through the major steps in the process, and provides links to more information and detailed procedures. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described in the Preview documentation remains at our sole discretion and are subject to change without notice or consultation. The documentation is for informational purposes only and is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality and should not be relied upon in making Citrix product purchase decisions.

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