Citrix Receiver Updates Made Easy

Keeping your employee’s Citrix Receiver up-to-date is critical for ensuring that every user of your XenApp and XenDesktop sites is getting the best possible app and desktop performance, end user experience, and security benefits. While implementing XenApp and XenDesktop has done wonders to centralize and simplify the administration of your apps and desktops, Citrix Receiver has continued to be the one remaining bit of software that is distributed across devices and could be user managed without IT having much control, until now!

I would like to introduce you to the new Citrix Cloud-hosted service designed specifically to simplify the process of maintaining Citrix Receiver updates across your user community.
Whether you are managing every user and device in your organization, opting for a more BYOD environment where the devices are user managed, or have a device management plan that falls somewhere in the middle, this new Citrix Cloud service for Citrix Receiver updates is going to be of interest to you. To truly gauge how impactful this new service is going to be to your organization, I like to always run a comparison between how most admins execute delivering a Citrix Receiver update today and how that can all be radically simplified for you through Citrix Cloud.

Today, Citrix releases updates for each of our various Citrix Receiver platforms a couple of times a year, depending upon the individual platform. With each release comes new features and functionality that enhance the user experience. However, the challenge has always been getting those Citrix Receiver updates out to all your users. Today, we typically see admins push out updates to Citrix Receiver in a few ways:

Read the entire article here, Citrix Receiver Updates Made Easy

via the fine folks at Citrix Systems, Inc.