Citrix has officially released XenClient Enterprise Project Thunder Technology Preview 2.

This Technology Preview provides new features and improvements focusing on personalization of user applications, support for Windows 8 and better user experience. It includes:

• Personal Virtual Disk (PvD)
• Improved display support for Windows 8 shared VMs
• Improved wireless roaming
• Support for new hardware platforms (Haswell-based systems)

This Technology Preview has been qualified on a small number of pre-production Intel Haswell platforms. Please work with Citrix support to qualify new hardware with XenClient Enterprise Technology Preview 2.

• Support for USB2 devices in USB3 controllers6
• Improvements and updates to Synchronizer, including:
• support for the latest Tomcat and 64-bit JVM release
• an improved UI with greater Browser support (Chrome, Firefox and Safari)
• simplified UI elements to support localization
• support for Windows Server 2012 (this support does not extend to the Engine as a VM operating system)

Improvements in user experience

This Technology Preview enhances the user experience by:

• Providing support for new Windows 8 WDDM driver. The new Windows 8 WDDM driver improves the display experience by:
• providing multi-monitor support
• supporting native resolutions across the different monitors
• enabling AERO within the VMs
• enabling multi-touch within the VM
• supporting devices with Intel®’s 4th generation processors (Haswell)
• improving video and sound synchronization
• implementing faster boot times
• improving support for USB2 devices plugged into USB 3.0 ports

Resolved Synchronizer Issues

This Technology Preview provides a number of fixes and enhancements to Synchronizer, including:

• numerous localization improvements
• updates to the VM creation Wizard to support PvD

In addition to these new features, a number of enhancements were made to XenClient. This is a “Technology Preview” release and is not intended for production deployment. Back up  your data prior to installing this Technology Preview release.

Learn more here ( requires a valid subscription for XenDesktop or XenClient) or click here to sign up for the tech preview