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
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Index
.bat example 82
.reg example 83
callback functions 81
file copy example 83
reasons for 82
service example 83
system registry example 84
timeout example 82
virtual registry example 83
services
automatic startup 44
starting and stopping in packages 44
Setup Capture wizard
authorizing user groups 18
browsing projects 23
building packages 23
compressing packages 21
entry points 17
installing applications 16
inventory name 21
package settings 22
postscan operation 16
prescan operation 16
project location 21
setting isolation modes 20
shell integration, reduced functions with ThinApp 10
snapshot.exe
creating snapshots from the command line 71
sample commands 73
sample procedure 73
snapshot.ini, defining 71, 74
support
for applications 9
for operating systems 9
T
technical support
required information for troubleshooting 93
ThinApp
applications that are not supported 10
browsing project files 22
deployment options 37
directory files 12
folder macros 77
in a VMware View environment 37
installing 11
recommendation for clean computers 11
requirements for installing and capturing
applications 9
streaming packages from the network 45
supported operating systems and
applications 9
updating applications 51
updating runtime in packages 65
using thinreg.exe 38
ThinApp Converter
capturing multiple applications 26
configuration file 27
detecting application installation processes 31
process overview 26
system requirements 27
ThinAppConverter.ini
configuring AppSettings 33
configuring HostEnvironment 28
configuring Settings 30
configuring VirtualMachineN 29
predefined environment variables 33
ThinDirect
extracting and registering 26
thinreg.exe
defining 38
parameters 39
running 39
starting with MSI files 21
updating registrations with Application Sync 53
with Application Sync 38
troubleshooting
Explorer.exe 101
Java Runtime Environment 101
Microsoft Outlook 100
providing required information to support 93
with Log Monitor 94
U
upgrading applications, methods and
considerations 51–65
V
virtual file system
format stages 77
representing path locations with macros 77
using 77
VMware View, using captured applications 37
vregtool, listing virtual registry contents 70
W
WriteCopy isolation mode 19