Administration

Managing ThinApp Applications in
Horizon Administrator
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You can use Horizon Administrator to distribute and manage applications packaged with VMware
ThinApp. Managing ThinApp applications in Horizon Administrator involves capturing and storing
application packages, adding ThinApp applications to Horizon Administrator, and assigning
ThinApp applications to machines and desktop pools.
You must have a license to use the ThinApp management feature in Horizon Administrator.
Important If, instead of distributing ThinApps by assigning them to machines and desktop pools,
you would rather assign ThinApps to Active Directory users and groups, you can use
VMware
Identity Manager.
This chapter includes the following topics:
n Horizon 7 Requirements for ThinApp Applications
n Capturing and Storing Application Packages
n Assigning ThinApp Applications to Machines and Desktop Pools
n Maintaining ThinApp Applications in Horizon Administrator
n Monitoring and Troubleshooting ThinApp Applications in Horizon Administrator
n ThinApp Configuration Example
Horizon 7 Requirements for ThinApp Applications
When capturing and storing ThinApp applications that will be distributed to remote desktops in
Horizon Administrator, you must meet certain requirements.
n You must package your applications as Microsoft Installation (MSI) packages.
n You must use ThinApp version 4.6 or later to create or repackage the MSI packages.
n You must store the MSI packages on a Windows network share that resides in an Active
Directory domain that is accessible to your Connection Server host and remote desktops.
The file server must support authentication and file permissions that are based on computer
accounts.
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