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5 Select an installation type and click OK.
Option Action
Streaming
Installs a shortcut to the application on the machine. The shortcut points to
the application on the network share that hosts the repository. Users must
have access to the network share to run the application.
Full
Installs the full application on the machine's local file system.
Some ThinApp applications do not support both installation types. How the application package was
created determines which installation types are available.
When you assign a ThinApp template to a machine, View Administrator begins installing the applications
in the template a few minutes later. When you assign a ThinApp template to a desktop pool, View
Administrator begins installing the applications in the template the first time a user logs in to a remote
desktop in the desktop pool. After the installation is finished, the applications are available to all of the users
of the machine or desktop pool.
View Administrator returns an application assignment error if a ThinApp template contains an application
that is already assigned to the machine or desktop pool.
Review ThinApp Application Assignments
You can review all of the machines and desktop pools that a particular ThinApp application is currently
assigned to. You can also review all of the ThinApp applications that are assigned to a particular machine or
desktop pool.
Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with the ThinApp installation status values in “ThinApp Application Installation Status
Values,” on page 182.
Procedure
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Select the ThinApp application assignments that you want to review.
Option Action
Review all of the machines and
desktop pools that a particular
ThinApp application is assigned to
Select Catalog > ThinApps and double-click the name of the ThinApp
application.
The Assignments tab shows the machines and desktop pools that the
application is currently assigned to, including the installation type.
The Machines tab shows the machines that are currently associated with
the application, including installation status information.
NOTE When you assign a ThinApp application to a pool, machines in the
pool appear on the Machines tab only after the application is installed.
Review all of the ThinApp
applications that are assigned to a
particular machine
Select Resources > Machines and double-click the name of the machine in
Machine column.
The ThinApps pane on Summary tab shows each application that is
currently assigned to the machine, including the installation status.
Review all of the ThinApp
applications that are assigned to a
particular desktop pool
Select Catalog > Desktop Pools, double-click the pool ID, select the
Inventory tab, and click ThinApps.
The ThinApp Assignments pane shows each application that is currently
assigned to the desktop pool.
ThinApp Application Installation Status Values
After you assign a ThinApp application to a machine or pool, View Administrator indicates the status of the
installation.
Table 10-1 describes each status value.
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