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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
- 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
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5 ConfiguringPackageParameters 65
Package.iniFileStructure 66
ParametersThatApplytoPackage.inior##Attributes.iniFiles 66
ConfiguringtheThinAppRuntime 66
NetRelaunch 66
RuntimeEULA 67
VirtualComputerName 67
Wow64 68
QualityReportingEnabled 68
LoadDotNetFromSystem 68
ConfiguringIsolation 68
DirectoryIsolationMode 68
RegistryIsolationMode 69
ConfiguringFileandProtocolAssociations 70
FileTypes 70
Protocols 70
ConfiguringBuildOutput 71
ExcludePattern 71
Icon 71
OutDir 72
RetainAllIcons 72
ConfiguringPermissions 72
AccessDeniedMsg 72
AddPageExecutePermission 72
PermittedGroups 73
UACRequestedPrivilegesLevel 74
UACRequestedPrivilegesUIAccess 74
ConfiguringObjectsandDLLFiles 74
ExternalCOMObjects 74
ExternalDLLs 75
ForcedVirtualLoadPaths 75
IsolatedMemoryObjects 76
IsolatedSynchronizationObjects 76
NotificationDLLs 77
NotificationDLLSignature 77
ObjectTypes 77
SandboxCOMObjects 78
VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM 78
ConfiguringFileStorage 78
CachePath 78
UpgradePath 79
VirtualDrives 80
ConfiguringProcessesandServices 81
AllowExternalKernelModeServices 81
AllowExternalProcessModifications 81
AllowUnsupportedExternalChildProcesses 82
AutoShutdownServices 82
AutoStartServices 82
ChildProcessEnvironmentDefault 83
ChildProcessEnvironmentExceptions 83
ConfiguringSizes 83
BlockSize 83
CompressionType 84
MSICompressionType 85
OptimizeFor 85