Tech Brief: Citrix Workspace
Overview
Citrix Workspace is a complete digital workspace solution that delivers secure access to the information, apps, and other content that is relevant to an end user’s role in your organization. Users subscribe to the services you make available and can access them from anywhere, on any device. Citrix Workspace allows you to deploy applications and desktops faster and helps you organize and automate the most important details that your users need to collaborate, make better decisions, and focus on their work.
Citrix Workspace includes many features to provide users access to their digital workspace.
Resource Aggregation
Citrix Workspace integrates Citrix Cloud Services that enables users to access all the desktops, applications, and content available to them. Citrix Workspace provides access from multiple resource or content locations to users from anywhere on any device.
Virtual Applications and Desktops Aggregation
Citrix Workspace aggregates current on-premises deployments ofCitrix Virtual Apps and Desktopsalongside aCitrix DaaSresource location.
Content Collaboration Aggregation
Citrix Workspace aggregates theCitrix Content Collaboration Serviceproviding access to files located on-premises or within a cloud hosted solutions such as ShareFile or OneDrive.
Web and SaaS Aggregation
Web and SaaS applications are integrated into the Citrix Workspace and are secured by theSecure Private Access Service.
Microapp Aggregation
Citrix Workspace aggregates microapp notifications, actions, and the intelligent feed delivered through theCitrix Microapp Serviceinto the Citrix Workspace.
Secure Browser Service Aggregation
Citrix Workspace integrates theCitrix Secure Browser Serviceto isolate web browsing and protect the corporate network from browser-based attacks.
Citrix Analytics
Get insights into your environment with theCitrix Analytics Servicefor all your Citrix Workspace users.
User Interface
Citrix Workspace provides several features centered on the user interface to allow Citrix Workspace to be agnostic to a device but continue to ensure consistency across multiple devices.
跨平台客户端支持
Using theCitrix Workspace App, Citrix Workspace provides a unified and consistent user experience across web, desktop, and mobile devices to end users.
Favorites and Recommendations
Within Citrix Workspace, end users can use theFavoritesfeature to mark applications or desktops as a favorite.
Recently Accessed Files and Applications
Highlightrecently accessed files, applications, and desktopsand show recommended files based on user and team activity.
App Categories and Folders
Displaysapplication categoriesand folders for applications.
Search
Providesearchabilities to the Citrix Workspace across all resources provided.
Single-Sign on to All Resources
Many resources require another form of authentication, often with an identity different from the users primary workspace identity. Citrix Workspace provides users with a seamless experience withsingle sign-onto secondary resources.
Customizations
Citrix Workspace allows admins to customize the appearance of end user workspaces.
Basic Customizations
Citrix Admins cancustomizethe color and logo of the digital workspace.
Policy Driven Themes (preview)
Citrix Admins cancreate, customize, and prioritize multiple themesfor the many business units of their organizations. Citrix Admins can provide each employee a more personalized workspace experience within the workspace.
EULA for Login (preview)
Citrix Workspace enables Citrix Cloud admins to personalize Citrix applications with their own pre-login custom message or license agreement for end users.
Resource Filtering
Virtual Desktops and applications can be filtered based on client properties, resource type, or keyword through Contextual Access where Citrix ADC is used as the primary identity provider.
Availability and Resiliency
Citrix Cloud services are designed with industry leading practices and offer several features to achieve a high degree of service availability and resiliency. Services are built to operate in multiple regions and data centers in multiple public cloud providers across the globe.
Offline Resilience
Service Continuityremoves or minimizes the dependence on the availability of components involved in the connection process. This feature allows users to continue to launch their virtual applications and desktops whatever the availability of the Citrix Cloud service.
Service Monitoring
Citrix has a dedicated Site Reliability team that provides 24x7 service monitoring. This team provides rapid recovery and timely restoration of services along with maintaining business critical operations.
Auto-Upgrade
Citrix Workspace is an evergreen service. Citrix admins never need to upgrade the Citrix management components including feature and security updates.
Configuration
Workspace App Deployment Option
Administrators can set the preference to the way users open applications and desktops whether it opens in the native application, the browser, or lets the user choose the method.
Select View
Citrix工作区视图默认主界面,however administrators can set a users workspace to open either in Applications or Desktops
Deploy Workspace App
Citrix Workspace can deliver the native Citrix Workspace App installer to end users at logon.
Start Menu Integration
Citrix administrators can publish applications, SaaS applications, and desktops in the Start Menu or as desktop shortcuts when using the Citrix Workspace App for Windows.
StoreFront to Workspace Migration (preview)
The Citrix StoreFront to Workspace URL migration feature is available to customers who currently deploy Citrix StoreFront to deliver Citrix Virtual Applications and Desktops. Using theCitrix Global App Configuration Servicefor Citrix Workspace, Citrix administrators can deliver the Workspace service URLs and Workspace app settings through a centrally managed service which provides the option to configureStoreFront URL to Workspace URLmapping.
Authentication and Access
Long Lived Token and Password (preview)
Citrix Workspace can use a secure token persisted on an end users device to reduce the frequency of logon prompts. By default, the token expiration date is set for 30 days.
SAML Authentication
Citrix Workspace supports usingSAMLto manage end user authentication allowing you to choose the provider of your choice provided it supports SAML 2.0.
Third Party IdPs
Citrix Workspace supports using bothAzure Active DirectoryandOktato manage end user authentication to their workspace.
Smart Card Authentication
Citrix Workspace supports the use of Smart Cards for end user authentication. Note that Smart Card authentication for Citrix Workspace requires a SAML configuration with an IdP that supports the requirement.
Domain Pass-Through Authentication
When launching an application or desktop from a domain-joined Windows client, users aren’t prompted for their password launched from Citrix Workspace.
Default Domain
Citrix Workspace pre-populates the Windows domain within the Citrix Workspace logon form.
Two-Factor Authentication OTP
Citrix工作区提供了云端的时基d One-Time Password (TOTP) option for organizations using a Windows Active Directory as the primary identity. The TOTP micro-service adds multifactor authentication to the Workspace experience,
Internal and External Detection
Citrix Workspace, on launch, can detect if users are accessing the workspace via an internal or external connection and route them appropriately.
On-premises Citrix ADC as the IdP
Citrix Workspace can use an on-premisesCitrix Gatewayas an identity provider to manage user authentication to end users workspaces allowing fornFactor authentication.
Federated Authentication Service (FAS)
WithFASenabled, users can sign into their Citrix Workspace through a federated identify provided such as Okta, Azure AD, Google IdP). Users enter their credentials only once to access their Citrix DaaS hosted resources.
Change Expired Password at Logon
Within Citrix Workspace users are prompted to change their expired password at logon.
Change Password at Anytime
Citrix Workspace provides the ability for users to reset their password from the Citrix Workspace App interface after logon.
Contextual Access (preview)
Citrix Workspace offerscontextual accessvia the Citrix Gateway Service to enterprise Web and SaaS applications which are based on the end user network location via an advanced policy infrastructure.
In this article
- Overview
- Resource Aggregation
- User Interface
- Customizations
- Availability and Resiliency
- Configuration
- Authentication and Access
- Long Lived Token and Password (preview)
- SAML Authentication
- Third Party IdPs
- Smart Card Authentication
- Domain Pass-Through Authentication
- Default Domain
- Two-Factor Authentication OTP
- Internal and External Detection
- On-premises Citrix ADC as the IdP
- Federated Authentication Service (FAS)
- Change Expired Password at Logon
- Change Password at Anytime
- Contextual Access (preview)