User`s guide

VMware ThinApp Reviewer’s Guide
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Service for changes in entitlements and to download new packages. (The user must have administrative
rights to change the polling interval.)
Figure 31: Horizon Preferences from the System Tray Icon
Activation of Applications
Users can activate any application they see in their Application Catalog. They simply click the Activate button
next to an application, and the application is downloaded to their desktop and added to the home page of their
user portal. When the Horizon Agent downloads the application to the user’s desktop, it is placed by default in
a folder called VMware Horizon Applications .
The Agent also registers the application for the user (creates desktop and Start menu shortcuts and icons, sets
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registration through Package.ini, see the ThinApp User’s Guide.) Then the user can access activated
applications from their user portal home page, as well as from desktop shortcuts.
After an application has been downloaded and is available from desktop shortcuts, the Application Catalog of
the user portal displays a green checkmark icon next to the activated application.
The application stays on the user’s desktop until the Agent has no record of entitlements for any user to the
application, and an expiration window has passed.
The user can continue to use an open application, even if the application is expired or disentitled. After the user
closes the application, their next launch is subject to entitlement approval by the Horizon Agent.
The Horizon Agent polls for changes in entitlement every sixty minutes, by default. If a user is newly entitled to
an application, and the application is set to Automatic download, the Agent downloads the application to the
user desktop. In addition, there is a Sync Now function in the Windows system tray, which the user can select to
download all Automatic and User-Activated applications they are newly entitled to.
Use of Activated Applications
After a ThinApp package is downloaded to the user desktop, the user can launch the application by:
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Applications folder, the default location where the Agent places the applications that it downloads
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