5.1
Table Of Contents
- ThinApp User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Installing ThinApp
- Capturing Applications
- Phases of the Capture Process
- Preparing to Capture Applications
- Capturing Applications with the Setup Capture Wizard
- Create a System Image Before the Application Installation
- Rescan the System with the Installed Application
- Defining Entry Points as Shortcuts into the Virtual Environment
- Set Entry Points
- Manage with VMware Horizon Application Manager
- Set User Groups
- Defining Isolation Modes for the Physical File System
- Set File System Isolation Modes
- Storing Application Changes in the Sandbox
- Customize the Sandbox Location
- Send Anonymous Statistics to VMware
- Customize ThinApp Project Settings
- Defining Package Settings
- Customize Package Settings
- Opening Project and Parameter Files
- Build Virtual Applications
- Advanced Package Configuration
- Capturing Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
- Capturing Multiple Application Installers with ThinApp Converter
- ThinApp Package Management
- Deploying Applications
- ThinApp Deployment Options
- Establishing File Type Associations with the thinreg.exe Utility
- Building an MSI Database
- Controlling Application Access with Active Directory
- Starting and Stopping Virtual Services
- Using ThinApp Packages Streamed from the Network
- Using Captured Applications with Other System Components
- Performing Paste Operations
- Accessing Printers
- Accessing Drivers
- Accessing the Local Disk, the Removable Disk, and Network Shares
- Accessing the System Registry
- Accessing Networking and Sockets
- Using Shared Memory and Named Pipes
- Using COM, DCOM, and Out-of-Process COM Components
- Starting Services
- Using File Type Associations
- Sample Isolation Mode Configuration Depending on Deployment Context
- Updating and Linking Applications
- Application Updates That the End User Triggers
- Application Sync Updates
- Using Application Sync in a Managed or Unmanaged Environment
- Update Firefox 2.0.0.3 to Firefox 3 with Application Sync
- Fix an Incorrect Update with Application Sync
- Application Sync Effect on Entry Point Executable Files
- Updating thinreg.exe Registrations with Application Sync
- Maintaining the Primary Data Container Name with Application Sync
- Completing the Application Sync Process When Applications Create Child Processes
- Application Link Updates
- View of the Application using Application Link
- Link a Base Application to the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Set Up Nested Links with Application Link
- Affecting Isolation Modes with Application Link
- PermittedGroups Effect on Linked Packages
- Sandbox Changes for Standalone and Linked Packages
- Import Order for Linked Packages
- File and Registry Collisions in Linked Packages
- VBScript Collisions in Linked Packages
- VBScript Function Order in Linked Packages
- Storing Multiple Versions of a Linked Application in the Same Directory
- Using Application Sync for a Base Application and Linked Packages
- Application Sync Updates
- Application Updates That the Administrator Triggers
- Automatic Application Updates
- Upgrading Running Applications on a Network Share
- Application Synchronization Using Group Policy Object
- Sandbox Considerations for Upgraded Applications
- Updating the ThinApp Version of Packages
- Application Updates That the End User Triggers
- Locating the ThinApp Sandbox
- Creating ThinApp Snapshots and Projects from the Command Line
- ThinApp File System Formats and Macros
- Creating ThinApp Scripts
- Callback Functions
- Implement Scripts in a ThinApp Environment
- API Functions
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting ThinApp
- Glossary
- Index
ThinApp User’s Guide
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Applications That ThinApp Cannot Virtualize
ThinApp cannot convert some applications into virtual applications and might block certain application functions.
You must use traditional installation technologies to deploy some application types.
Applications that do not natively support the deployment operating system.
If an operating system does not support the native installation of an application, that operating system is
not a supported ThinApp deployment platform for that application.
Applications requiring installation of kernel-mode device drivers
ODBC drivers work because they are user mode drivers.
Antivirus and personal firewalls
Scanner drivers and printer drivers
Some VPN clients
Device Drivers
Applications that require device drivers do not work when packaged with ThinApp. You must install those
device drivers in their original format on the host computer. Because ThinApp does not support virtualized
device drivers, you cannot use ThinApp to virtualize antivirus, VPN clients, personal firewalls, and disk and
volume mounting-related utilities.
If you capture Adobe Acrobat, you can modify and save PDF files, but you cannot use the PDF printer driver
that enables you to save documents to PDF format.
Shell Integration
Some applications that provide shell integration have reduced functions when they exist in a ThinApp
package. For example, a virtual application that integrates with Windows Explorer cannot add specific entries
to the Windows Explorer context menus.
DCOM Services that are Accessible on a Network
ThinApp isolates COM and DCOM services. Applications that install DCOM services are accessible on the
local computer only by other captured applications running in the same ThinApp sandbox. ThinApp supports
virtual DCOM and COM on the same computer but does not support network DCOM.
Global Hook Dynamic Link Libraries
Some applications use the SetWindowsHookEx API function to add a DLL file to all processes on the host
computer. The DLL intercepts Windows messages to capture keyboard and mouse input from other
applications. ThinApp ignores requests from applications that use the SetWindowsHookEx function to try to
install global hook DLLs. ThinApp might reduce the application functions.
Support for Messaging Application Programming Interface
ThinApp 5.1 supports the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) feature on the following
Microsoft Windows platforms:
Windows 7
Windows 8 32-bit
Windows 8 64-bit
Windows 8.1 32-bit
Windows 8.1 64-bit
NOTE Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is not supported on Windows XP x86 operating
system.