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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
- 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
- Guidelines for Packaging Microsoft Office 2007
- 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
- Sandbox Considerations for Upgraded Applications
- Updating the ThinApp Version of Packages
- Application Updates That the End User Triggers
- Configuring Package Parameters
- Package.ini File Structure
- Parameters that Apply to Package.ini or ##Attributes.ini Files
- Configuring the ThinApp Runtime
- Configuring Isolation
- Configuring File and Protocol Associations
- Configuring Build Output
- Configuring Permissions
- Configuring Objects and DLL Files
- Configuring File Storage
- Configuring Processes and Services
- Configuring Sizes
- Configuring Logging
- Configuring Versions
- Configuring Locales
- Configuring Individual Applications
- Configuring Dependent Applications with Application Link
- Configuring Application Updates with Application Sync
- Configuring MSI Files
- Configuring Sandbox Storage and Inventory Names
- 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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Index
configuring individual application
parameters 78
configuring isolation parameters 58
configuring locale parameters 77
configuring logging parameters 75
configuring MSI parameters 86
configuring object and DLL parameters 64
configuring process and service parameters 71
configuring runtime parameters 56
configuring sandbox parameters 90
configuring security parameters 62
configuring size parameters 73
configuring storage parameters 68
configuring version parameters 76
DirectoryIsolationMode 58
Disabled 78
DisableTracing 75
editing Application Sync parameters 44
ExcludePattern 60
ExternalCOMObjects 64
ExternalDLLs 64
FileTypes 60
ForcedVirtualLoadPaths 65
Icon 61
InventoryName 90
IsolatedMemoryObjects 65
IsolatedSynchronizationObjects 66
LocaleIdentifier 77
LocaleName 77
LogPath 76
modifying MSI parameters 33
MSI parameters 33
MSIArpProductIcon 86
MSICompressionType 74
MSIDefaultInstallAllUsers 86
MSIFilename 87
MSIInstallDirectory 87
MSIManufacturer 87
MSIProductCode 88
MSIProductVersion 88
MSIRequireElevatedPrivileges 88
MSIUpgradeCode 89
MSIUseCabs 89
NetRelaunch 56
NotificationDLLs 66
NotificationDLLSignature 67
ObjectTypes 67
OptimizeFor 75
OptionalAppLinks 83
OutDir 61
parameters 55
–92
parameters that apply to ##Attributes.ini 56
PermittedGroups 63
Protocols 60
QualityReportingEnabled 58
ReadOnlyData 79
RegistryIsolationMode 59
RemoveSandboxOnExit 90
RequiredAppLinks 82
ReserveExtraAddressSpace 79
RetainAllIcons 62
RuntimeEULA 57
SandboxCOMObjects 67
SandboxName 91
SandboxNetworkDrives 91
SandboxPath 91
SandboxRemovableDisk 92
Shortcut 79
Shortcuts 80
Source 80
StripVersionInfo 76
structure 56
UACRequestedPrivilegesLevel 63
UACRequestedPrivilegesUiAccess 64
UpgradePath 69
Version.XXXX 77
VirtualComputerName 57
VirtualDrives 69
VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM 68
WorkingDirectory 80
Wow64 58
packages
building 22
configuring 21, 23, 55
defining 21
parameters
applying settings at folder level instead of
package level 23
for Application Link 81
for Application Sync 83
for build output 60
for file and block sizes 73
for file and protocol associations 60
for file storage 68
for individual applications 78
for isolation modes 58
for locales 77
for logging 75
for MSI files 33, 86
for objects and DLLs 64
for permissions 62
for processes and services 71
for sandbox storage 90
for sbmerge.exe 52
for ThinApp runtime 56