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Problems running some MSI's

ggeldorp — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:18:53 GMT

The MSIUpgradeCode that's placed into Package.ini by SetupCapture is generated based on the inventory name. So my first guess would be that perhaps you used the same inventory name for multiple packages?

Problem in Capturing CVF6.6 - Cannot Debug

mltx — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:14:48 GMT

I am capturing CVF6.6 (Compaq Visual Fortran v6.6) with Thinapp 4.0.4 and the captured app can complile a Fortran 90 code and run the compiled executable.

BUT the captured app cannot debug. The problem is that it cannot open the compiled exe file with the error message shown in attached file.

Any suggestions and ideas will be highly appreciated.

mltx

Can VMware ACE be used as a virtual machine with ThinApp?

mltx — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:56:35 GMT

I am capturing CVF6.6 (Compaq Visual Fortran v6.6) and the captured app can complile a Fortran 90 code and run the compiled exe. BUT the captured app cannot debug. The problem is that it cannot open the compiled exe file with the error message shown in attached file.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

mltx

Java 1.6_10 Update in ThinaApp Turn Off

doofkopf — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:42 GMT

Hello,

I have the Problem that the java Update Check Box is turned on in the Java Pakage.

I use THinapp Version 4.0.

When i Capture i turne the Box Out. -> I copy the Package to another PC an the Update checkbox turned on in the Package.

Can anyone Help me to find the Registry Keys ore the Files wich have thif Information. +

So I cane change the Isolation Mode....

Best regards

Error message at end of build: tlink.exe - No Disk

YellowAxe5 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:27:24 GMT

I attached a picture of the error which also has the last two lines on the batch file, if you press continue on this error message "3" times the build batch file finishes and the application virtualization is complete. I can open the app and use it, only thing is I'm wondering why this error message keeps coming up. I changed many settings in the "package.ini", tried differet versions, tried different operating systems (XP SP3 and Windows 7), and I tried many different apps. No matter what I do it this message always appears.

Any help is much appreciated thanks,
YellowAxe5

Error Message:
tlink.exe - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR1.

problem

totim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:26:23 GMT

We are packaging our apps as MSI's using ThinApp 4.03 build 3313, then dropping the installer packages on C: and and running the installer from there. We are getting a meassage that says "The same or newer version of the "specific software (Dartfish in this case)" (VMware Thinapp) is already installed. I included a snopshot of the meassage below. Has anyone seen this, if so, have you found a solution. This has also happened with SPSS 17. The weird thing is we have a base image of the machine a Dell Optiplex 745 with XP pro installed and some base apps (that could not be thinapped) like Java, iTunes, Quicktime, Flash etc. and at first I recieved the meassage when trying to run the Dartfish MSI and the Inspiration 8 MSI, so I pushed out a new image to start over and the Inspiration 8 MSI ran fine but I still recieve the message with Dartfish and now SPSS 17.

DLL execution error with SmartPlant3D

PSF — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:49:52 GMT

Thanks for response, Cievo.

The SmartPlant 3D is a very specific program that is very expensive and only accesible if you have a valid license. To use it you need a license server, a oracle/sql database server, and the workstations. Of course, we are using it with a valid license.

I don't know other way to obtain the program.

Empty HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt

PSF — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:13:11 GMT

We solved it.

The problem was the virtual machine. When we make the same process in a physical machine it works smoothly.

capturedusingversion= in package.ini

Mnimmo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:10:33 GMT

Great information. Thank you very much.

Can you unpack

SamuraiMo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:39:54 GMT

By the way the file has and extra file called InstallShield_{7B4A5C13-069F-4AFE-AE57-C497B4E33C7E}.dat and it's arouond the 3gb

So how do i open that file maybe? it's dat so it can be opened with and programme but which programme?

VMware ThinApp 4.0.4, Windows 7 x64, and Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010

ggeldorp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:03:10 GMT

Thanks for the report. We've identified a problem affecting apps on Windows 7 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 that internally throw and catch exceptions. Sounds like this might be a case of that.

ThinApp 4.0.3 Folder Creation

butlpau — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:40:20 GMT

Hi there.

Hope you can help and can explain what I am trying to do. I install and application that is hardcoded to initially create and read an .ini file located in:

C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Company\APPName\APPFile.ini

When I thinapp the application, it now l creates the APPFile.ini in location:

D:\Documents and Settings\%username\Application Data\Thinstall\APPCaptureFolder\%AppData%\Company\APPName\APPFile.ini

(The D drive is a local drive that is used to store profile settings etc). Question is how can I create the folder D:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Company\APPName\ so can manually copy the file into it?

I have created the folder path before capturing the application but it does not create the folder. I have used there 'Merged' option when capturing the app.

If you need any more information please let me know.

Cheers,
Paul.

4.0.4 and Win7 64-bit

ggeldorp — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:14:07 GMT

Thanks for the report, We'll look into it.

Release 4.0.4, Windows 7, and 16 bit application support

TheBlueScorpion — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:12:50 GMT

Great!

Initially, I had thought that 16-bit support on Windows 7 via ThinApp was going to be a given but, after trying out the 4.0.4 release, I was a little shaken.

Thanx,
Richard Wilson

Portable for Catia P3V5R19

Bamdad63 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:53:24 GMT

Hi,

Like I mentioned in my first post, the executable file from the bin folder which is the "CATIA P3 V5R19.exe" is not working for the

package which I made for USB and Thinstall option.

Meanwhile I figured the CATIA P3 V5R19.exe will work when I execute it in the partion which was used to make the package. In

this context I want to add it will work eventhough the Catia software was uninstalled. Maybe this is a memory issue?

I have a partition on my PC which has a clean OS dedicated for Thinapp.

Best Regards

CA eTrust 8.1.637 false positive

Petri R — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:42:02 GMT

Just this morning we have a lot virusmessages from CA etrust 8.1.6.37. They all where from Thinapp'd applications.

Those Thinapp'd applications where compilied using Thinstall version 3.3.

Alter compiling all those application with ThinApp 4.03, CA eTrust stop false error messages

-Petri

Hosted Application streaming

AndreTheGiant — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:33:55 GMT

To stream ThinApp programs you need a fileserver.
Maybe can work also with HTTP (if you put the file on a web server) but I've never tried.
See: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_ThinApp_Streaming_Execution_Mode_Information_Guide.pdf

Andre

OLE-Integration to Office 2007 (OLE to Office 2003 functions well with ThinApp)

andi24aekwl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:46:04 GMT

Hello!

I have thinapped our ERM system with has two plugins. One is the Oracle Forms and Reports Client and the second a MS Office package.

The ERM system creates docs via OLE in combination with MS word. With a thin-apped Office 2003 there's no problem. So I have inserted the optional plugin in the package ini of the ERM thinapped system.

Next I've tried the same with MS Office 2007 as Thinapp-package. But the link between the ERM system and Office 2007 via Thinapp is broken; there's no chance to write docs.

Do you have any advices for OLE with Office 2007 as thinapp? I've already read that Thinapp doesn't support any OLE, but it still works with a thinapped Office 2003.

Yours sincerely

Andrè Döking

Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe

Unpacking Thin Applications back to project (ThinApp and Xenocode)

NickOn — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:52:12 GMT

I didnt find any plugins folder beside the builtin cubicexplorer.exe

Just create it.

ThinApp T-Shirt Rules

Corey_R — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:30:52 GMT

While supplies last
Each member who contributes project files of their packaged application(s) to the ThinApp Community Portal will receive a VMware ThinApp T-shirt. No limit to number of submissions.Only one T-shirt per person.
Applications packaged must be commercially available applications. Applications part of the Windows operating system distribution and custom or proprietary applications do not qualify.
Send us a URL to video or screenshots showing the application successfully running after packaging.
T-shirts will be awarded starting November 1, 2009.

Get my T-shirt & Enter my Contribution

OpenOffice Spell Checking

escor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:24:41 GMT

Hello, i've tried to virtualize OpenOffice. It works fine, but the spell checker doesn't work in virtualization.

Also i've found http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2009/03/how-to-create-a-thinapp-package-of-open-office-or-star-office.html but this doesn't help me. I saw also the comment of a user with the same problem, but no solution.

The Versions i've used is OpenOffice 3.1.1 (German) and ThinApp 4.0.3 (3313).

By the way, if i start the installed OpenOffice on the machine where the ThinApp is installed, the spellchecker is working.

Is this a Problem of ThinApp, or did someone have a solution?

Browsers, Particularly IE 6,7,8 Home Page Settings

prbamw — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:22:59 GMT

thank you Cievo, that did it!

Build Error with Quickbooks 2009

ggeldorp — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:56:12 GMT

The path is too long. When SetupCapture asks for a project directory don't use the default C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\Captures\QuickBooks Premier - Accountant Edition 2009 but something shorter, e.g. C:\QB2009.

AdminStudio - use with ThinApp?

PointyHairedManager — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:41:22 GMT

So nobody uses AdminStudio?

OK, thanks.

IE 6, Can't enter text in fields when running when IE7 or IE8 is installed

Linjo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:15:08 GMT

Check out this solution:

http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2009/09/running-ie6-on-a-windows-xp-with-ie8-locally-installed.html

Best regards,
Linjo

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The next version and old plugins

NickOn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:32:46 GMT

Ok, thanks! It's a good news!

Thinapp installation

ggeldorp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:09:07 GMT

Installing the .msi = copying the .exe (.dat) file + running ThinReg.
ThinReg will create shortcut entries on the desktop and in the Start Menu (if the original installer did that too) and will set up file type associations, so if you run ThinReg on a virtual Office package you can then double-click on a .doc file and it will open in Word. To do this, ThinReg (and, by extension, installing the .msi) has to add some entries to the system registry and add shortcuts to the system desktop/Start Menu. Other than that, isolation is still in effect.

IE6 package does not work if IE8 is installed.

awelker — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:34:23 GMT

Thanks, this fixed it!

thinapp office mui

twanster — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:24:33 GMT

Hello,

does anyone know if it's possible to thinapp office mui interface. If yes, how would u proceed?

Regards

Anthony

ThinAPP vs InstallFree

mohankc — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:21:59 GMT

Has anyone tried InstallFree? We are a ThinAPP shop for now, but it is becoming a pain in neck to work with Vmware's incompetent customer support and their non-disclosure policies. Anyway, we had a demo of InstallFree and it definitely has some cool features that ThinAPP is lacking - complete shell integration, easy process to upgrade packages (ThinAPP has one too but it never worked for us), no clean machine required to capture your packages and light-weight application provisioning tool that integrates very well with AD. They said they are releasing 64-bit support in January and I think it will be a serious competitor for ThinAPP. We will give it a serious consideration to make a switch when they have the 64-bit support.

If anyone of you have used InstallFree, can you share your experiences?

Thinapp Application slow launching times

VN25 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:25:38 GMT

Hello,

I have 2 questions.

1) When I create a package i am getting 2 files- one with .dat extension and another with .exe extension.
I would like to have just one package with .exe entension ( I have seen demos with 800mb single exe file thinapp package)

2) I created a thinapp package (followed Thinapp guide) . The problem is, when i launch the package within an administrator account, it takes 3 minutes to launch. In a non administrator account it takes 20 sec to launch. ( The application package requires don net 1.1 and 2). I have tried packaging dont net and applications in different thin app pacages and app linking, but with the same result.

Thank you

DOS (Protected Mode) in thinapps

leobissinger — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:38:59 GMT

With the help of Mr.Geldorp I finished virtualization of BC 5.02.
I integrated an old dpmi version of an 16 bit linker into thinapps virtual environment.
With the help of friendly geldorp,
I used the solution to copy 'critical' old apps during startup of thinapp from vrtual filesystem to host filsystem (merged)
The virtualized Borland IDE of BC5.02 is now able to start an old fashioned DMPI-apps.

If somebody needs assistance in similar DPMI thinapp capturing,
here is a small section of my package.ini:

Isolation
DirectoryIsolationMode=Merged

BuildOptions
ChildProcessEnvironmentExceptions=tlink.exe;
ChildProcessEnvironmentDefault=Virtual

;-------- General Purpose Parameters

SandboxName=<as you like it>
InventoryName=<as you like it>
SandboxPath=h:\work\sandboxes
VirtualDrives=Drive=c, Serial=c05dd77a, Type=FIXED
VirtualDrives=Drive=h, Serial=cb5dd77a, Type=FIXED
VirtualComputerName=LOCALHOST

~~BC502@SC1x.dat~~
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\Debug@Chip\bin\debug@chip.exe
ReadOnlyData=bin\Package.ro.tvr
MetaDataContainerOnly=1

http://Borland C++.exe
Source=%drive_H%\BC5\BIN\bcw.exe
Shortcut=BC502@SC1x.dat
WorkingDirectory=%drive_h%\BC5\BIN
FileTypes=.c.cpp.h.hpp.ide.rc.res.spp
ObjectTypes=BorlandIDE.Application
Shortcuts=%Programs%\Borland C++ 5.02

Thanks a lot to geldorp

ThinApp Quicktime

jdwebster — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:38 GMT

Has anyone successfully ThinApp'd QuickTime Player? I have a variety of issues when trying to run it on the client machine and was wondering if anyone has tried or had any successes.

Outlook 2003 with Customization for Profile Autoconfigure

polysulfide — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:18:51 GMT

I'm fairly new to ThinApp and I am ThinApping Office 2003 right now.

General packaging went really well but I'm trying to make my package a little more useful by configuring Outlook to autoconfigure the user profile.

I installed Office 2003 with a transform that specifies the profile generation behavior.

After packaging and running outlook, Outlook tries to connect to the target exchange server and prompts for credentials. It doesn't accept any of the credentials provided and errors out.

The machine is on the correct domain and a valid user is logged in.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Autocad 2009 and Autodesk Inventor 2009

gcVmWare — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:41:36 GMT

You didn't have any problems? What do you mean by running from c:. You have to save the build to c:\

I'm sweating with this for some days now but cannot get it to work. every time i start autocad it crashes with a fatal error. Or the logo is displayed en then after 20 minutes i get the error license message

Cache location

MrCeeJay — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:17:54 GMT

Sounds really simple: in Package.ini add
CachePath=Sandbox

that should work.

best regards,
Christian Janssen
VMware vExpert 2009

copy directory-structure from virtual-filesystem to host-filesystem

leobissinger — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:10:09 GMT

Hello,

I found post with a simoilar problem in post 'http://communities.vmware.com/thread/217891'.

Background:
I have to copy a directory with Its sub folders from the virtual filessystem to hosts file system.
I use the cmd-debug commandline and I give the target folder attribut 'merged':

Problem:
I call 'copy', 'mkdir' in the thin-bubble, both will work fine to copy files into host system, or create folders.
But if i try to use 'xcopy', this command break and give the message 'can't create the target folder'.
It's very strange, because the other to commandline tools will work.

Can anybody give an idea, why 'xcopy' won't work in thinapp-bubbles ?

Thank you in advanced

Leo

Help with [ and ] characters in package.ini, please

IamTHEvilONE — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:54:10 GMT

I don't think you can. Typically you would use the '\' backslash as an escape character to take the next one as a literal, but I think the backslash is not allowed for use in some Package.ini settings.

Regards,

EvilOne
VMware vExpert 2009

NOTE: If your problem or questions has been resolved, please mark this thread as answered and award points accordingly.

Separate the app from the OS, without ThinApp.

arpi0007 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:58:36 GMT

Thanks for your respons leobissinget.

Wow, this seems to be a really hard work, especially If I'd like to deploy a complex application (e.g.Microsoft Server products) in this way.

And I don't know, how could I make a "fake" registry, to store the registry entries made by the program.

I just found a great website, the guys at http://www.portableapps.com are doing the same what I'am talking about, but this is seems to be a little indie project for me.

sbmerge with outlook

BizContacts — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:10:10 GMT

I tried to update my portable outlook sandbok by entering email account info. I then used sbmerge to update the original project. Sbmerge seemed to work, but when I tried to reload Outlook after buidling, I keep getting a "Can not install" error. I know I used sbmerge correctly because changes I made to internet explorer which was also in the project worked.
Anyone have any ideas why Outlook can not be merged?

Virtual Registry isolation of registry keys

leobissinger — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:42:18 GMT

Hello geldorp,

thank you for last explanation. Your have a better knowledge about thinapp than the users manual. Because in that manaul I found no sense for #23

greetings and many thanks

Leo

First thinapped app and no success

Cievo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:29:22 GMT

Can you, please, post error message screenshot?

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Receiving a DLL error when launching one part of a thinapped application

Bryanbph — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:47:49 GMT

I think I have a solution - Give this a try:

Add the following ExternalDLL command in the BuildOption section of the package.ini file. There should already be the BuildOptions branch, so just
add the ExternalDLLS line somewhere in that section. Keep me posted on how it goes as this solved my issue.

ExternalDLLs=BCGPOleAcc.dll

thinapp post install point

KingstonUniversity — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:32:59 GMT

Hi,

I've recently been attempting to thinapp an application that requires a reboot. I am doing this on a VMware workstation set to non persistent mode (meaning system changes are maintained during a restart). However, When i restart and login to the workstation, thinapp relaunches not at the post install point but at the beingging when the packager is first invoked. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this?

New ThinApp version

ggeldorp — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:45:52 GMT

Sorry, company policy prohibits us from disclosing any details (including features and release dates) of future releases.

Part of test-team

Cievo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:42:23 GMT

Hello

I would like to know if it's possible to be a part of test-team?

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Running appsync silently?

Cievo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:37:14 GMT

This could be good feature/option. Can you, build it into new release?

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Outlook 2007 Preventing Cached Mode at Startup

chaz112182 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:17:52 GMT

awesome, im going to give this a shot now. thank you for the info !!

Problems virtualising SolidWorks 2009

saxionthinapp — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:08:19 GMT

It took some time but we managed to thinapp SolidWorks 2009 SP4.1 Premium.
Performance seems to be good.

How's that possible?:
Use a clean VM (or wathever you use to capture applications) with Win XP pro SP2.
Uninstall the VMware Tools (if you use a vm).
Install windows patch KB919880 (do not capture this one)
Use version 4.0.0.2200 of ThinApp.

Start Thinapp.
Install SW.
After the the installation has finished open the task manager.
Wait untill the mscorsvw.exe process (.NET Runtime Optimization Service) has finished.
Start SW and configure it as needed.
Don't select Add-in's!!!!!! (you can always do that when using the package, it will be stored in your sandbox)
Close SW.
Finish the capture.

Good luck!

Erik van Kuik
Saxion

Virtual Bubble with Internet Explorer - Flash Causes it to Freeze

Defiant365 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:57:12 GMT

Double post. Sorry.

Virtual Bubble with Internet Explorer - Flash Causes it to Freeze

Defiant365 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:59:57 GMT

Hello everyone.

I know this is a constant topic about how to correctly get a ThinApped package to interact with the Local installation of IE. I am having a problem with Flash, which is installed locally, when launching the IE in the ThinApp package. Any flash enabled website causes Internet Explorer to freeze.

I am not sure what to do.

The Machine which was used has IE 7 already, which is the same version on the target machine. Adobe 10 is installed on the target machine, flash works in the local IE.
Do I need to isolate some keys in the package? Should I just ThinApp Flash?

I should also say in the whole process of this, I also captured an installation of IE 7 from IE 6, along with Office 2007, and Flash works from the locally installed machine. I am not sure what the difference is. I guess I could also compare the registry keys between both projects, but that could take some time.

Thanks. I hope someone has some ideas.

Windows 7 compatibility?

josephine27 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:07:59 GMT

I tried a few captured packages, none of them work on Windows 7.

So I'd like to try capture the image on Windows 7, but "Setup Capture.exe" itself crashed on Windows 7. Is this a known problem? How soon could we expect a fix? Thanks

How do I comment out lines in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt and other registry files?

ggeldorp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:38:37 GMT

Hmm, turns out comment lines are not handled correctly by vregtool. Sorry, no workaround. I've filed a bug.

Is it possible to run Thinapp Scripts inside the VM

Squidly Man — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:04:21 GMT

Ahhh! Good catch John. I didn't even think to see how you were making your calls to modify the registry. That does make sense...

-Dean F.
http://pubs.vmware.com/thinapp4/help

Restricting applications to network only

phsteele — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:41:18 GMT

We have some ThinApp packages which we only want to run from a network drive. Is there anyway to restrict a ThinApp application is this way? I thought I might be able to do something with a VBScript, but so far haven't found a solution. If anyone has any ideas on this topic I'd appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks.

VMware Converter

Cievo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:36:01 GMT

I don't see the point of problems. Just try to ThinApp VMWare Converter with sandbox located in the same directory as executable (Portable Application) and try to run it.

IMHO you can not convert PC without admin credentials anyway, even you use non-ThinApped VMWare Converter.

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

ThinApp and "Open With"

Cievo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:29:30 GMT

Hello

Sorry for confusion

I think that thinreg neither MSI package make changes in other than default opening registries. IMHO you sould make those registry changes yourself.

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

License Management and Metering for ThinApp

pjensen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:42:47 GMT

Many have asked for functionality to control access to ThinApp applications and report on their usage for compliance and other reasons. VMware has worked with a 3rd party software provider to create an integrated solution for these purposes.

For additional information, visit www.SoftwareKeyMetering.com.

For a quick presentation and demo, go to

http://www.softwarekeymetering.com/movies/softwarekey_metering_thinapp.swf

ThinReg only working for some applications;

Cievo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:18:31 GMT

Have you tried to look into Package.ini file for lines FileTypes? There are defined extensions that should be assigned with executables when registering app.

For examle for Word in Office 2003 I have there:

http://Microsoft Office Word 2003.exe
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE
Shortcut=office.dat
Icon=%SystemRoot%\Installer{9012041B-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}\wordicon.exe
FileTypes=.doc.dochtml.docm.docx.dot.dothtml.rtf.wbk
Shortcuts=%Programs%\Microsoft Office

And here is documentation.

If you have those extensions and it doesn't work correctly, then IMHO you should report this to ThinApp team to fix it.

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Should it make a difference where you launch the package from?

Cievo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:22:39 GMT

This is weird.

Have you check ThinApp registries in your sandbox when you change homepage?

What browser is it?

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

UNC path containing spaces no supported ?

Cievo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:16:42 GMT

Sentece that you posted means that parent application are not able to see changes in linked (child) application. It means that parent application are not able to access directly registries or files in sandbox of its child linked applications. But it doesn't mean, that child linked application work without its sandbox. It reads and writes to its sandbox like any other application.

Just a dump question, does it work without virtualization?

What if you do not do linked applications, but make one ThinApp package where you will capture your application and also Outlook?

PS: IMHO, this should be separate threat in this forum. Just close this one as Solved and open new one

Thank you,

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

thinapp Office 2003 with compatibility pack for Office 2007 (FileFormatConverter)

SysRoot — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:59:22 GMT

Hello,

thinapping Office 2003 works great, but if I want to open an Office 2007 file, the thinappen Officeprogram wants to open it with the (FileFormat)converter an shows me a "save as" Window.

I have installed the compatibility pack on the GoldenMaster -> same problem

I have installed the compatibility pack together with Office 2003 ad maked a thinapp package -> same problem

Anyone another idea?

Visual Basic 6 with 4.0.3: VB's add-in's won't load

Crouze — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:33:29 GMT

Hi,

I'm pretty new to ThinApp, but have managed to ThinApp a good few "simple" applications so far. Now I'm trying to ThinApp Visual Basic 6 (I know: it's old, but I still have good use for it) but I've run into a problem there: creating the ThinApp'ed application goes well (with 4.0.3), but when I try to run it, it fails to load all VB's add-in components (OCX and DLL). Can someone help me out here to get this fixed?

Thanks,

Marco

Portable VMware Player

vikram01 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:49:30 GMT

Thanks for quickness.

So there is no way to make VM player portable and run from flash drive without having to install on any PC?

Do you know any Virtulization application which would do that?

Vikram

ThinApp and Printing

mishmash88 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:32:18 GMT

I have packaged my application (in this case a business app. running under IE6) on a 'clean' Windows 2000 pc.

I am now wanting to host this ThinApp package on a XenApp Server (which has no connected printers).

What I want to happen is for the client who connects to the XenApp Server and accesses the ThinApp package to be able to print using those printers that are known on his / her client PC - but in the print dialog no printers are displayed ( As there are none installed on the server). Is there a way to get the ThinApp package in the XenApp environment to be able to print using the printers known to the client?

Many Thanks

mm88

Opening a .doc file with a ThinApp'ed Word 2003

753713 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:35:07 GMT

I have the same effect with Office 2007 :-((

Must isolate thinapp from OS to prevent Outlook conflict

wlftech — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:08:50 GMT

Yes, they do show up in the /captures/EAM/%drive_C% folder. When you run the thinapp it acts like it can't find these files though and that is why if I copy eamcli folder to the c drive of the test client it works?

Sql Server

Reave — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:11:56 GMT

Okay, repeated the test again. I was successful using a default instance on sql server 2005 express.

Does the version of sql server 2005 I use affect wheather or not it will function?

Or does it have to do with wheather or not I used a named instance or the default one.

VMware ThinApp Videos

Corey_R — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:32:40 GMT

1. Application Link Overview
2. Application Sync Overview
3. Install ThinApp for Network Use
4. Java Runtime with Local IE
5. Basic SBmerge Demo

Blocking network access of a ThinApp Application

Cievo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:50:33 GMT

IMHO:
a.) Yes, vApp has all access as normal app would have. That means, you can not decline access to network card within vApp.

b.) If you have such a software for normal app, it should work with vApp. ThinApp doesn't have such a tools.

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

How can we do this in ThinApp... Help pls.

Cievo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:40:55 GMT

Hello

Read documentation. You can assign your own serial number or let system to generate one for you.

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

IE 7 and Crypto

jaydee65 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:14:37 GMT

Spoke to soon.

I found a folder named "crypto" under %appdata%\microsoft in the java-bubble.

I removed this folder, rebuild the Java app and copied it to the plugins from IE7.

Everything seems to work fine now.

gr,

Johan

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

ggeldorp — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:52:44 GMT

Can't be 100% without investigating this further, but this looks like a problem we've tracked down and which will be fixed in the next release.

Office 2007 with .Net 3.5 Sp1 in Pakage

doofkopf — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:52:42 GMT

Hi,

i have tested this with no SP and with SP2 of the Office Package.

The same Problem....

ThinApping Corel Draw X4 | hide local folders

st_kf — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:12 GMT

Hey guys!

Following: I'am working on a CorelDraw X4 ThinApp at the moment.
Packaging Process worked well.(Used a clean VM, newest ThinApp realease: 4.0.3-3313)
Now the Problem. If I want to use the Thinapp on a computer with MS Office 2003 installed, it tries to install something (process msi.exe starts, and you can see Office install assistant starting. but its not possible for the installer to install the required stuff) and then the application crashes.

I already tried installing this office on the virtual machine before packaging corel. but no effect...
I can only use the Isolation modes writecopy and merged. if thinapp it full, it wouldn't be possible to use other interfaces to existing applications..

I know that it is possible to hide local files from the thinapp (http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2009/02/how-to-ignore-local-system-files-and-registry-entries-inside-a-thinapp-package.html)
but is it also possible to hide local folders from the thinapp? It's a bit more comfortable to hide single folders with the files included than every single file...

btw.. if you try using this thinapp on a machine without office installed, it is working perfectly (in addition Office as a thinapp works, but we have many applications with Macros and other installed interfaces to office i could not thinapp yet.

Message was edited by: st_kf

IE 8, .NET Framework

prbamw — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:03:34 GMT

Hi to All,

I have been working on ThinApp'ing IE 8 and using .NET Framwork 3.5 as a plugin. .NET is only a .dat file in the plugin folder of IE 8, does there need to be an exe that uses the .dat file in the plug in folder? The Builder Wizard didn't pick an appropriate exe as an entry point, so I just left all unchecked and gav e it a name to use for the .DAT.....is there a particular exe that I should use as an entry point?

When I go to the page for the application, click on the Install button, a message displays that says >NET Setup Is Currently Disabled By Your Security Settings.

Thank you for any suggestions or help.

Phil

Office 2007 with IE - Crashes with Local Addon

Defiant365 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:25:20 GMT

Hey everyone.

I ThinApped Office 2007 and I put the iexplore.exe entry point in with the project as I need users to have the Office Settings in IE to open up Infopath documents in Sharepoint. When I did the catpure, I had IE 7 installed already as that is what we have deployed on the machines. The problem is that when you launch iexplore.exe on a VMWare View machine, it crashes on any site that has adobe flash. I was able to figure out that it is the VMWare Adobe Plugin, flashoptimizer.dll. When I disable this addon and launch the program, IE does not close.

What do I do in order to troubleshoot this/resolve it? I am somewaht new to ThinApp and this Local program launching in the Virtual Bubble still has me somewhat confused. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

SQL issues

Reave — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:26:41 GMT

I have an application that uses an unattended installed of sql so I'm unable to check if its configuration is inline with what is posted in the SQL/MSDE step by step guide on the Thinapp blog. However, something is deffinitely not right as can be seen from the error message which I have attached along with the log.

Error Message: MDSWrapper COM Error -- StartSQLService

Error code -x80040424

Description: Unable to start MSSQLSERVER service: 127.0.0.1\JMPS_SQL_SERVER. Microsoft SQL-DMO SQL-DMO Service Control Error: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

Error code -x80070424 - The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Virutalizing Outlook with Business Contact Manager

ContactManager — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:54:22 GMT

Has anyone sucesffuly made Outlook with Business Contact Manager Portable. It seems to use SQL and.Net. I have followed the instructions for both, as well as the instructions for Office, but I have yet to get it to create or access a database.
Are there any success stories? And if so, how was it done?

Internet Explorer and associated plugins

feranmIE8team — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:53:05 GMT

Hi this is Feran with the Internet Explorer Outreach Team. A good resource for IE8 is the IEBlog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

RainMaker

VMwareUT — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:57:53 GMT

Has anyone used ThinApp with RainMaker legal time and billing application?

Office 2007 Enterprise SP2 not transportable on all machine

effaness — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:39:11 GMT

the problems appear with some machine for the version without SP 1 or 2.

this problems exist because the windows installer search few registry key in the local machine. These key correspond of C++ runtime. but it's not install on the capture machine. I think that it is because I have VMware tools or View Agent installed on the capture machine, or maybe it's Thinapp...

but this is resolv with installation of Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (add in the wsus server )

I have not had time to test SP2, but maybe a complete installation of C++ package resolv also the probleme. or maybe the version 2008...

How do I troubleshoot ThinApp package when it crashes under LogMonitor?

MarkOviedo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:40:49 GMT

The Problem :
I am trying to troubleshoot a ThinApp application package. The package has required links to Crystal Runtime 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 SP1. The package runs successfully on a Windows XP SP2 machine, but on a Windows Vista SP1 machine, it crashes when trying to show a Crystal report in the viewer. The package was built with ThinApp 4.0.3.

My Troubleshooting Steps :
I copied the LogMonitor.exe and supporting dll's to a Windows Vista SP1 test client. When I started the application package, the log file becomes so large that the application failed to launch. I then checked the Suspend box in LogMonitor, and now when I launch the application package, it crashes immediately.

Some Relevant Notes :
I had built roughly the same package with ThinApp 4.0.1 trialware and did not run into this issue. The app packaged under 4.0.1 ran successfully under Windows XP and Vista machines. In both cases, I had built all packages on a VM Workstation running Windows XP SP2.

My Question :
How do I troubleshoot this?

Externalizing AppSync URL?

MarkOviedo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:03:25 GMT

In our deployment model, we build ThinApp packages at our company and then deploy them out to different servers at customer intranet sites. We have been able to leverage the ThinApp scripting capability to externalize basically any file in the package. This allows us to build 1 core package, deploy it at multiple customer sites, and then just change any .config files outside of the package for each customer. This greatly simplifies the management of our packages, since we just need to build one version of the package and then can configure it per customer via configuration files.

We have been experimenting with the AppSync capability, and have found that it would be especially useful to externalize the AppSync URL in much the same way we can with our configuration files. This would open many doors for us in terms of flexible deployments. Namely, we could create a package at our company, test it internally by pointing to a local web server, then stage that package out to a customer site, and just update the AppSync URL to point to their customer web server. Another common scenario is that we will deploy a ThinApp package into a customer test environment, and then need to push the same package into the customer's live environment. We would like to be able to move the package from the test web server to the live web server, and just update the AppSync URL in the live environment to point to the live web server.

Is it possible to do this today with ThinApp? If this needs to be a feature request, where do I post it?

Problems w/ ThinApp and PowerTerm Terminal Emulator

Cievo — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:14:06 GMT

Maybe some internal application relations. Some hard-coded links inside application.

I don't think it's because ThinApp.

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Outlook and Antivirus

Cievo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:27:26 GMT

Antivirus - Symantec

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Pop-up window

Cievo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:00:17 GMT

Hello guys,

is it possible to disable VMWare pop-up windows which come on screen everytime I start virtualized app?

Thank you,

Ondrej Zilinec - Cievo

...Good question is half of the answer...

Confusion over entry points

NickOn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:12:17 GMT

Why do You think that You get the standart system CMD?

Try to run CMD point (the main package must be beside of it) on the machine, where your application is not installed.
Then in CMD window: CD "path-to-program-files"
Then: DIR

After that you should see your application folder, but standard CMD can't see it.
If not then you've made something wrong.

"Thinapped" application for Windows XP and Vista

krfa261286 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:08:51 GMT

Hi Everybody,

I've already "thinapped" different kind of software. If I run application on the same OS, but not the with the same SP (the computer that I use for thinapp don't have SP), the software works fine.

If I test to run the application on Windows Vista, (or Seven), when I start the application, the error at the application startup appear "the application has stopped working".

When I create the package, I choose the Merged Isolation Mode. I'd know if somebody know more about the procedure for create an application compatible with two or more Windows OS versions.

Thank you for your help.

Fabrice

ThinApp Firefox slow respons

RonIntergamma — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:07:07 GMT

Something to add.

When I take the USB to my own PC, where Mozilla is being installed, and I start the ThinApp Mozilla,I see it starts, but now it is not slow.I notice that there is hardly any i/O to the USB.

I stop the ThinApp-application, deletes the prvious created sandbox files and directories and start the application again.

Same effect, fast, but the only files I see being created are the registry files. I'm was searching for the sandbox files on my own PC, but I could not find them.

For me this is very strange and confusing

Before I forget to mention, also on the PC where I packed Mozilla into a ThinApp application, during the test Mozilla was still installed on the Windows OS. I did not removed the installation

ThinApping Microsoft ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode )

GylesPolloso — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:37:52 GMT

Is this supported?

I was able to capture an ADAM instance by failed to start it as a virtual service. I'm getting the following error message:

The description for Event ID ( 1003 ) in Source ( ADAM nt9015 General ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: -1011, JET_errOutOfMemory, Out of Memory.

Thoughts, anyone?

Gyles

HELP how to link a thinapp'd application to a system application?

krismcewan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:02:05 GMT

Try packaging the visio viewer with Word.

VCP, VTSP4, VSP4, MCSE, MCTS, IBMBCE and anything else I can learn.

script for thinreg

Squidly Man — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:22:40 GMT

All ThinApp related script examples on the ThinApp blogs can be found here: http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/scripts

Including a THINREG Logon Script Example.

-Dean F.
http://pubs.vmware.com/thinapp4/help

Another App Virtualization Solution Instead of ThinApp

azn2kew — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:11:53 GMT

Well, really depends what you have in your environment as far as virtualization infrastructures. If you have all VMware ESX hosts environment and uses VMware View, it would be obvious you're give ThinApp a chance because it's doing pretty good in terms of single execution and you have the apps running without conflicts and its so light and easy to deploy. Now, if you have Citrix XenEnterprise and Xen Desktop, than using XenApp would be your best choice and Citrix is actually the king in application virtualization before Softgrid and ThinApp has to offered. I still think Citrix XenApp has more features to offered but that depends on your assessments. Now, Microsoft luckily bought Softgrid and rebranded to App-V for their VDI solution such as MDOP. App-V is a great product as far as packaging and sequencing goes, its very good solution for application virtualization. Now, for those newbies on the block, why would you try something that's not mature and widely deployed?

So, I would check out our existing infrastructures and how we going forward, but using VMware, Citrix and MS application virtualization solutions are solid. Also, you would have to test them in a lab to decide which one works in your environment because each entity have their own and specific applications needs and requirements. I could see Symantec has some chances with this market but it takes time though! If you still interested in discussion with me offline call me anytime we can talk bro. I'm glad we have same last name so great to share knowledge!

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

Regards,

Stefan Nguyen
VMware vExpert 2009
iGeek Systems Inc.
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

how to maintain the thin app environment

SunnyLZC — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:33:41 GMT

Hello
My company start the deploy the thinapp and we package many applications like office, acrobat, sap and so on. I know vmware provide many tools to maintain the apps ,such as appsync, applinks. But I have many problem to maintain the whole thin environment
1. VMware recommend us to package every application in the "Clean" environment. Actuality, many applications interrelate each other. For example, IE browser. many our applications plug-in IE, If we package every application in "Clean" OS. the user may use different browser to run different app. and the standard IE can only browse the web, and always could not run plug-in apps.
2. To solve the first problem, we can simulate users environment to install all applications in the same OS, and finally re-package the IE with app link option. But this method will make the environment more complex and hard to maintain. Because a application change or update will impact other applications.
3. About update the application with app link option. A Scenario, I have packaged a Lotus notes called notes.dat and deploied to users in a month. now I want to config some setting. I have two way to update. First, capture the configurations and build a package called configuration.dat, then config the notes_v1's requireapplins to link to the configuration.dat in the package.ini, and rebuild the notes.dat. It's that right, I really didn't sure the two notes.dat are different package and use the same sandbox, it works? The second way, because of the config never change the execute file, there is no entry point to run the configuration.dat. So, we copy a same execute file of the notes as the entry point, and package the configuration.dat to link the notes.dat.

Anybody could share his experience in this, think you very much!

how to maintain the thin app environment

SunnyLZC — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:31:47 GMT

ThinApp and Kernel Drivers

prbamw — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:43:51 GMT

I tried to virtualize an app that relies on a kernel driver to access a USB device that contains license information, Needless to say it won't work. Does anyone know of a work around is available for this kind of situation? We are not trying to and don't want to bypass any license requirements.

Thank you,

Phil

ThinApped Agilysys Datamagine Error, DLL Not found

prbamw — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:00:55 GMT

I resolved this issue by changing the Path Environment variable to include c:\. I did this with a VBS script, but am now going to make sure that path is set on the VM before compiling.

Thanks to all.

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 SP2 ThinApp problem

mohankc — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:02:34 GMT

You are not alone in this. The use case that we tested is a little different. We tried to insert an excel file into powerpoint. All components of Office are virtual. I opened a SR and was told that the error is caused because thinAPP doesn't support OLE. The support engineer also indicated that VmWare does not have any plans to support OLE in the near future.

VMware ThinApp Podcasts

Corey_R — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:31:38 GMT

1. ThinApp for VI admins - Communities Roundtable
2. Technical Track: Virtualize Your Applications with VMware ThinApp