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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
- Manage with VMware Horizon Application Manager
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Contents
ListingVirtualRegistryContentswithvregtool 62
6 CreatingThinAppSnapshotsandProjectsfromtheCommandLine 63
MethodsofUsingthesnapshot.exeUtility 63
CreatingSnapshotsofMachineStates 63
CreatingtheTemplatePackage.inifilefromTwoSnapshotFiles 64
CreatingtheThinAppProjectfromtheTemplatePackage.iniFile 64
DisplayingtheContentsofaSnapshotFile 65
Samplesnapshot.exeCommands 65
CreateaProjectWithouttheSetupCaptureWizard 65
Customizingthesnapshot.iniFile 66
7 ThinAppFileSystemFormatsandMacros 67
VirtualFileSystemFormats 67
ThinAppFolderMacros 67
ListofThinAppMacros 68
Processing%SystemRoot%inaTerminalServicesEnvironment 69
8 CreatingThinAppScripts 71
CallbackFunctions 71
ImplementScriptsinaThinAppEnvironment 72
.batExample 72
TimeoutExample 72
ModifytheVirtualRegistry 73
.regExample 73
StoppingaServiceExample 73
CopyingaFileExample 73
AddaValuetotheSystemRegistry 74
APIFunctions 75
AddForcedVirtualLoadPath 75
ExitProcess 75
ExpandPath 76
ExecuteExternalProcess 76
ExecuteVirtualProcess 77
GetBuildOption 77
GetFileVersionValue 77
GetCommandLine 78
GetCurrentProcessName 78
GetOSVersion 79
GetEnvironmentVariable 79
RemoveSandboxOnExit 80
SetEnvironmentVariable 80
SetfileSystemIsolation 80
SetRegistryIsolation 81
WaitForProcess 81
9 MonitoringandTroubleshootingThinApp 83
ProvidingInformationtoTechnicalSupport 83
LogMonitorOperations 83
TroubleshootActivitywithLogMonitor 84
PerformAdvancedLogMonitorOperations 84
LogFormat 86
TroubleshootingSpecificApplications 90
TroubleshootRegistrySetupforMicrosoftOutlook 90
ViewingAttachmentsinMicrosoftOutlook 90