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
4 VMware, Inc.
3 DeployingApplications 39
ThinAppDeploymentOptions 39
DeployingThinAppwithDeploymentTools 39
DeployingThinAppintheVMwareViewEnvironment 39
DeployingThinApponNetworkShares 40
DeployingThinAppUsingExecutableFiles 40
EstablishingFileTypeAssociationswiththethinreg.exeUtility 40
ApplicationSyncEffectonthethinreg.exeUtility 40
Runthethinreg.exeUtility 41
Optionalthinreg.exeParameters 41
BuildinganMSIDatabase 43
CustomizingMSIFileswithPackage.iniParameters
43
ModifythePackage.iniFiletoCreateMSIFiles 43
ControllingApplicationAccesswithActiveDirectory 45
Package.iniEntriesforActiveDirectoryAccessControl 45
StartingandStoppingVirtualServices 46
AutomaticStartupforVirtualServices 46
UsingThinAppPackagesStreamedfromtheNetwork 47
HowThinAppApplicationStreamingWorks 47
RequirementsandRecommendationsforStreamingPackages 48
StreamThinAppPackagesfromtheNe
twork 49
UsingCapturedApplicationswithOtherSystemComponents 49
PerformingPasteOperations 49
AccessingPrinters 49
AccessingDrivers 49
AccessingtheLocalDisk,theRemovableDisk,andNetworkShares 49
AccessingtheSystemRegistry 50
AccessingNetworkingandSockets 50
UsingSharedMemoryandNamedPipes 50
UsingCOM,DCOM,andOut‐of‐ProcessCOMComponents 50
StartingServices 50
UsingFileTypeAssociations 50
SampleIsolationModeConfiguratio
nDependingonDeploymentContext 51
ViewofIsolationModeEffectontheWindowsRegistry 51
4 UpdatingandLinkingApplications 53
ApplicationUpdatesThattheEndUserTriggers 53
ApplicationSyncUpdates 53
ApplicationLinkUpdates 56
ApplicationUpdatesThattheAdministratorTriggers 60
ForcinganApplicationSyncUpdateonClientMachines 61
UpdatingApplicationswithRuntimeChanges 61
AutomaticApplicationUpdates 62
DynamicUpdatesWithoutAdministratorRights 63
Side‐by‐SideUpgradingofRunningApplicationsonaNetworkShare 63
FileLocks 63
UpgradeaRunningAppl
ication 63
SandboxConsiderationsforUpgradedApplications 64
UpdatingtheThinAppVersionofPackages 64
relinkExamples 64