4.6.1
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
- Capturing Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
- Capturing Multiple Application Installers with ThinApp Converter
- 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
- Side-by-Side Upgrading of 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
144 VMware, Inc.
for locales 87
for logging 86
for MSI files 43, 96
for objects and DLLs 74
for permissions 72
for processes and services 81
for sandbox storage 100
for sbmerge.exe 62
for ThinApp runtime 66
for thinreg.exe 41
for versions 86
PermittedGroups, effect on Application Link 59
primary data container
defining 21
maintaining the name with Application Sync 55
size implications 21
project files 22
projects, opening during capture process 22
R
regedit.exe, defining 17
relink
defining 64
examples 64
S
sandbox
considerations for upgraded applications 64
defining 20
location 20, 105
parameters 100
search order 103
structure 106
sbmerge.exe
commands 62
defining 60
merging runtime changes 61
scripts
.bat example 116
.reg example 117
callback functions 115
file copy example 117
reasons for 116
service example 117
system registry example 118
timeout example 116
virtual registry example 117
services
automatic startup 46
starting and stopping in packages 46
Setup Capture wizard
authorizing user groups 18
browsing projects 23
building packages 23
compressing packages 21
entry points 17
installing applications 16
inventory name 21
package settings 22
postscan operation 16
prescan operation 16
project location 21
setting isolation modes 20
shell integration, reduced functions with ThinApp 12
side by side applications
upgrading 63
snapshot.exe
creating snapshots from the command line 107
sample commands 109
sample procedure 109
snapshot.ini, defining 107, 110
support
for applications 11
for operating systems 11
T
technical support
required information for troubleshooting 127
ThinApp
applications that are not supported 12
browsing project files 22
deployment options 39
directory files 13
folder macros 111
in a VMware View environment 39
installing 13
recommendation for clean computers 12
requirements for installing and capturing
applications 11
streaming packages from the network 47
supported operating systems and
applications 11
updating applications 53
updating runtime in packages 64
using thinreg.exe 40
ThinApp Converter
capturing multiple applications 30
configuration file 32
detecting application installation processes 36
process overview 30
system requirements 32