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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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Chapter 6 Creating ThinApp Snapshots and Projects from the Command Line
Displaying the Contents of a Snapshot File
The snapshot.exe utility lists the contents of the snapshot file.
Usage
snapshot.exe SnapshotFileName.snapshot -Print
Examples
Snapshot Start.snapshot –Print
ThinApp requires all of the parameters.
Sample snapshot.exe Commands
Table 6-2 describes sample commands for the snapshot.exe utility. The parameters are not case-sensitive.
The commands are wrapped in the Command column because of space restraints.
Create a Project Without the Setup Capture Wizard
You can use the snapshot.exe utility from the command line instead of using the Setup Capture wizard that
runs the snapshot.exe utility in the background. The command-line utility is useful to package a large
number of applications or automate ThinApp project creation. The typical location of the snapshot.exe
utility is C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\snapshot.exe.
The snapshot process makes a copy of the all registry entries on the system and file system metadata.
File system metadata includes path, filename, attribute, size, and time stamp information but excludes actual
file data.
Create a project with the snapshot.exe command-line utility
1 Save an initial snapshot of the current machine configuration to disk.
snapshot.exe C:\Start.snapshot
2 Install the application and make any necessary manual system changes.
Table 6-2. snapshot.exe Sample Commands
Command Description
snapshot C:\Capture.snapshot Captures a complete snapshot of local drives and
registry to the file C:\Capture.snapshot.
snapshot C:\Capture.snapshot C:\ E:\ Captures a complete snapshot of the C:\ and E:\ drives.
ThinApp does not capture registry information.
snapshot C:\Capture.snapshot C:\data.snapshot
C:\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Captures a complete snapshot of the C:\ drive and all of
the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry subtree.
snapshot C:\Original.snapshot -Diff
C:\NewEnvironment.snapshot C:\MyProject
Generates a ThinApp project directory by comparing
two snapshots.
snapshot Original.snapshot -DiffPrint
NewEnvironment.snapshot
Displays differences between two captured snapshots.
snapshot C:\data.snapshot C:\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Saves the state of the computer file system and registry.
snapshot C:\start.snapshot -diffprint
C:\end.snapshot
Compares two recorded states.
snapshot C:\start.snapshot -print Prints the contents of a saved state.
snapshot C:\start.snapshot -SuggestProject
C:\end.snapshot C:\project.ini
Generates a ThinApp project by comparing two saved
states.