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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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Not Configured. If you do not configure this setting, then ThinApp will perform AppLink using the AppLink
parameters defined in the package. If the package does not contain any AppLink parameters, the runtime will
not perform AppLink.
Enabled. If you enable this setting, then ThinApp performs AppLink even if the package does not contain any
AppLink parameters. When there are no AppLink parameters in the package, then the runtime uses the
parameters configured in Configure AppLink dialog, this overrides the AppLink parameters set in the
package.
Disable. If you disable this setting, the ThinApp will not perform AppLink, even if the package contains
AppLink parameters.
Updating Applications with Runtime Changes
The sbmerge.exe utility merges runtime changes recorded in the application sandbox back into a ThinApp
project. A typical workflow for this utility involves the following tasks:
Capturing an application.
Building the application with the build.bat file.
Running a captured application and customizing the settings and virtual environment. ThinApp stores
the changes in the sandbox.
Running the sbmerge.exe utility to merge registry and file system changes from the sandbox into the
ThinApp project.
Rebuilding the captured application with the build.bat file
Deploying the updated application.
Merge Sandbox Changes with Firefox
This procedure for the sbmerge.exe utility uses Firefox 2.0.0.3 as an example of a captured application.
Merge sandbox changes with Firefox 2.0.0.3
1 Capture Firefox 2.0.0.3.
2 Double-click the build.bat file in the captured application folder to rebuild the application package.
For example, a Firefox 2.0.0.3 path to the build.bat file might be C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware
ThinApp\Captures\Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3\build.bat.
3 Create a Thinstall directory in the bin directory for the sandbox location.
4 Start Firefox and make a change to the settings.
For example, change the home page.
5 From the command line, navigate to the directory where the ThinApp project folder resides.
For example, navigate to C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\Captures\Mozilla
Firefox 2.0.0.3.
6 From the command line, type the "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\sbmerge" Print
command.
ThinApp prints the changes that affected the sandbox folder when using the captured application.
7 From the command line, type the "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\sbmerge" Apply
command.
ThinApp empties the Thinstall folder and merges the sandbox changes with the application.