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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3 Save to disk a snapshot of the new machine configuration.
snapshot.exe C:\End.snapshot
4 Generate a template Package.ini file.
snapshot.exe C:\Start.snapshot –SuggestProject C:\End.snapshot C:\Template.ini
ThinApp uses the template file to generate the final Package.ini file. The template file contains a list of
all detected executable file entry points and Package.ini parameters. If you write your own script to
replace the Setup Capture wizard, use the template Package.ini file to select the entry points to keep or
customize Package.ini parameters such as InventoryName.
5 Generate a ThinApp project.
snapshot.exe C:\Template.ini –GenerateProject C:\MyProjectDirectory
6 (Optional) Delete the temporary C:\Start.snapshot, C:\End.snapshot, and C:\Template.ini files.
7 (Optional) To generate multiple projects with different configurations, reuse the original
Start.snapshot file and repeat the procedure from Step 2.
Customizing the snapshot.ini File
The snapshot.ini configuration file specifies what registry keys to exclude from a ThinApp project when
you capture an application.
For example, if you use Internet Explorer 7, you might need ThinApp to capture the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Connections
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware
Profiles\0001\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
If the snapshot.ini file excludes the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Connections key by default, you can remove this key from the snapshot.ini file to ensure that
ThinApp captures the key in the capture process.
If you do not customize the snapshot.ini file, the snapshot process loads the file from one of these locations:
Application Data\Thinapp\snapshot.ini
This location is the AppData directory of the user.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMWare Thinapp\snapshot.ini
This is the location from which ThinApp runs the snapshot.exe utility.
Use snapshot.exe Utility to Extract a ThinApp Project
ThinApp allows you to extract an existing ThinApp project into a capture and build operating system.
ThinApp uses the snapshot.exe and snapshot64.exe to extract existing virtual project onto the capture and
build operating system. snapshot.exe is used for a 32-bit operating system and snapshot64.exe is used for
a 64-bit operating system.
ThinApp 5.1 has the following command line options to extract existing projects onto capture and build
system.
snapshot.exe: Is used to extract an existing ThinApp project into a capture and build 32-bit
operating system.