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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
ThinApp User’s Guide
134 VMware, Inc.
for thinreg.exe 31
for versions 76
PermittedGroups, effect on Application Link 49
primary data container
defining 21
maintaining the name with Application Sync 45
size implications 21
project files 22
projects, opening during capture process 22
R
regedit.exe, defining 17
relink
defining 54
examples 54
S
sandbox
considerations for upgraded applications 54
defining 20
location 20, 95
parameters 90
search order 93
structure 96
sbmerge.exe
commands 52
defining 50
merging runtime changes 51
scripts
.bat example 106
.reg example 107
callback functions 105
file copy example 107
reasons for 106
service example 107
system registry example 108
timeout example 106
virtual registry example 107
services
starting and stopping in packages 36
Setup Capture wizard
authorizing user groups 17
browsing projects 22
building packages 22
compressing packages 21
entry points 17
installing applications 16
inventory name 20
package settings 21
postscan operation 16
prescan operation 16
project location 20
setting isolation modes 19
shell integration, reduced functions with ThinApp 12
snapshot.exe
creating snapshots from the command line 97
sample commands 99
sample procedure 99
snapshot.ini, defining 97, 100
support
for applications 11
for operating systems 11
T
technical support
required information for troubleshooting 117
ThinApp
applications that are not supported 12
browsing project files 22
deployment options 29
directory files 13
folder macros 101
in a VMware View environment 29
installing 13
recommendation for clean computers 12
requirements for installing and capturing
applications 11
streaming packages from the network 36
supported operating systems and
applications 11
updating applications 43
updating runtime in packages 54
using thinreg.exe 30
thinreg.exe
defining 30
parameters 31
running 31
starting with MSI files 21
updating registrations with Application Sync 45
with Application Sync 30
troubleshooting
Explorer.exe 125
Java Runtime Environment 125
Microsoft Outlook 124
providing required information to support 117
with Log Monitor 118
U
upgrading applications, methods and
considerations 43–54
V
virtual file system
format stages 101
representing path locations with macros 101
using 101