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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 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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Index
.bat example 72
.reg example 73
callback functions 71
file copy example 73
reasons for 72
service example 73
system registry example 74
timeout example 72
virtual registry example 73
services
automatic startup 40
starting and stopping in packages 40
Setup Capture wizard
authorizing user groups 16
browsing projects 21
building packages 21
compressing packages 19
entry points 15
installing applications 14
inventory name 19
package settings 20
postscan operation 14
prescan operation 14
project location 19
setting isolation modes 18
shell integration, reduced functions with ThinApp 10
snapshot.exe
creating snapshots from the command line 63
sample commands 65
sample procedure 65
snapshot.ini, defining 63, 66
support
for applications 9
for operating systems 9
T
technical support
required information for troubleshooting 83
ThinApp
applications that are not supported 10
browsing project files 20
deployment options 33
directory files 11
folder macros 67
in a VMware View environment 33
installing 11
recommendation for clean computers 10
requirements for installing and capturing
applications 9
streaming packages from the network 41
supported operating systems and
applications 9
updating applications 47
updating runtime in packages 58
using thinreg.exe 34
ThinApp Converter
capturing multiple applications 24
configuration file 25
detecting application installation processes 29
process overview 24
system requirements 25
ThinAppConverter.ini
configuring AppSettings 30
configuring HostEnvironment 25
configuring Settings 28
configuring VirtualMachineN 27
predefined environment variables 31
ThinDirect
extracting and registering 24
thinreg.exe
defining 34
parameters 35
running 35
starting with MSI files 19
updating registrations with Application Sync 49
with Application Sync 34
troubleshooting
Explorer.exe 91
Java Runtime Environment 91
Microsoft Outlook 90
providing required information to support 83
with Log Monitor 84
U
upgrading applications, methods and
considerations 47–58
V
virtual file system
format stages 67
representing path locations with macros 67
using 67
VMware View, using captured applications 33
vregtool, listing virtual registry contents 62
W
WriteCopy isolation mode 17