Citrix workspace components
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The Management Engine offers auto-update and centralized management. The Citrix Workspace Platform provides a single platform for delivering a unified administration experience using a cloud-based management tool. Inside the Workspace Platform, customers can subscribe different cloud services to configure the desired user workspace experience. These services are updated and managed by Citrix which reduces deployment and system update effort by administrators and allows management staff to focus on other more strategic tasks.
To learn more about the workspace platform services click here. There are several Citrix Cloud Services that combine to enable the full workspace user experience.
This reference architecture is based on the Citrix Workspace Premium Plus. Citrix Workspace app is a client app which consumes Citrix Workspace services. In this conceptual architecture, we are using the Citrix Workspace Premium Plus offering to deliver mobile, virtual, and web apps to Citrix Workspace app users. Most of the configuration is performed in the cloud management portal.
In the following section, we cover the system requirements and high-level steps needed to complete the setup using Citrix Cloud Services. This hybrid cloud approach can dramatically simplify the deployment and configuration process for customers while offering faster feature updates, new releases managed by Citrix, and a great centralized administrative experience.
In this conceptual service architecture, we focus on the service architecture integration and provide resource links to more resources and details. Citrix Workspace Platform Services is a service offering managed by Citrix in the cloud.
After the required account is created, the administrator can download and deploy Citrix Cloud Connectors to the resource location or locations containing Active Directory and the virtual machine hosting platform.
Cloud Connector authenticates and encrypts all communications between Citrix Cloud and the resource locations. See Internet Connectivity Requirements for more info. Customers choose which control plane location they would like to use when they first sign up. No sensitive customer information is saved in the control plane. For more information on the Cloud Connector security related practice and extra considerations, see the Secure Deployment Guide for the Citrix Cloud Platform.
For a list of Citrix Cloud Connector functions see here. It is recommended to deploy two or more Citrix Cloud Connectors per resource location for high availability and scalability. See Scale and size considerations for Cloud Connectors for extra guidance. There are no databases to install or management requirements for Citrix Cloud Connector. For a step-by-step configuration, see here. For guidance on how to set up high availability in a resource location see here.
If the administrator wants to add an existing on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployment in to Citrix Workspace, it is possible to use the Site Aggregation feature in the Citrix Workspace platform.
See Add an on-premises Site to Citrix Workspace for more information. To learn more about the concept of Site Aggregation, see this video. To enable secured user connections to the Citrix Workspace, the administrator needs to configure the Gateway Service for Virtual Apps and Desktops services or use the Citrix Gateway on-site. For more info, see here. Administrators can apply the existing Citrix Gateway server in the resource location which will be able to offer better control of network traffic in the resource location and allow extra Citrix Gateway network services to be enabled in the resource location.
An example is Micro VPN services and more info can be found here. For customers with small remote office or branch office locations, adding and managing a dedicated Citrix Gateway server might not be possible. In this case, administrators can use the hosted Citrix Gateway Service to address the requirement.
For customers who do not require external network user access to the Virtual Apps and Desktops in the resource location, it is possible to configure Citrix Workspace to deliver Virtual Apps and Desktops to internal users only.
For more info on how to configure SSO see here. To enable single sign-on to SaaS applications, the process is now simplified in just a few web forms and clicking the configuration page greatly simplifies the deployment process. For a list of supported SaaS applications see here. For internal network hosted SaaS applications, it is possible for administrators to apply the Gateway Connector in preview to proxy the internal web-based SaaS application access to the external Workspace App user.
The Secure Private Access Service allows administrators to gain visibility of the user activities on the Workspace App and add enhanced securities to SaaS apps such as Watermark, copy-paste restriction, and preventing downloads. Most importantly, combining Secure Private Access and Workspace App client software, administrators can review valuable user insights through Analytic services tracking user SaaS application usage and application usage pattern.
For how to configure Secure Private Access see here. For more information on how to configure Content Collaboration see here. Linking the Content Collaboration Service allows Workspace App users to access data in Storage Zones and External cloud file storage vendors with single sign-on.
Enabling Citrix Endpoint Management integration will also improve device security management and allow administrators to encrypt selective company data on the mobile device.
Download the Workspace App here. Enable Analytics services by configuring required data sources. To learn more, see here. After completing these 7 steps, the administrator will be able to monitor user activities across multiple resource locations and increase security control on information access with Workspace App users.
Reduce external web application access risks by redirect them to Secure Browser. Apply Content Collaboration with external users using local Storage Zones or public cloud storage platforms.
Users are demanding access to applications on any device, anywhere, anytime. IT needs a new security approach. One that provides a fine level of control over access and adjusts to contextual factors like location and user behavior.
IT needs to be able to stay ahead of both internal threats and malicious external actors. Citrix Workspace app is the unified front-end application for the end user. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops provides comprehensive Windows and Linux application and desktop virtualization.
Citrix Secure Private Access provides consolidation of point products that offer SSO, web filtering and secure browsing as separate offerings. It provides a single solution to meet your requirements for SSO and forward-proxy functionality with web filtering and secure browser services. Content Collaboration allows users to share, sync, and secure content from the cloud and on-premises storage services. Citrix Endpoint Management is a solution for managing endpoints, offering mobile device management MDM and mobile application management MAM capabilities.
With Endpoint Management, you manage device and app policies and deliver apps to users. Your business information stays protected with strict security for identity, devices, apps, data, and networks. Combining Citrix Secure Hub Mobile productivity apps and Citrix Workspace app, the administrator can better control mobile devices.
