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Cause

Common causes of this problem include the following:

n The MSI file is corrupted.

n The MSI file was not created with ThinApp.

n The MSI file was created or repackaged with an unsupported version of ThinApp. You must

use ThinApp version 4.6 or later.

Solution

See the

ThinApp User's Guide

for information on troubleshooting problems with MSI packages.

ThinApp Configuration Example

The ThinApp configuration example takes you step-by-step through a typical ThinApp

configuration, beginning with capturing and packaging applications and ending with checking the

status of an installation.

Note Managing ThinApp applications is no longer available from Horizon Console. However,

VMware ThinApp is still supported for VMware Horizon. See the VMware ThinApp documentation.

Prerequisites

See these topics for complete information about how to perform the steps in this example.

n Capturing and Storing Application Packages

n Assigning ThinApp Applications to Machines and Desktop Pools

Procedure

1 Download the ThinApp software from http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp and install it

on a clean computer.

Horizon 7 supports ThinApp version 4.6 and later.

2 Use the ThinApp Setup Capture wizard to capture and package your applications in MSI

format.

3 Create a shared folder on a computer in an Active Directory domain that it accessible to both

your Connection Server host and your remote desktops and configure the file and sharing

permissions on the shared folder to give Read access to the built-in Active Directory group

Domain Computers.

If you plan to assign ThinApp applications to domain controllers, also give Read access to the

built-in Active Directory group Domain Controllers.

4 Copy your MSI packages to the shared folder.

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