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getut
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Thinapps not streaming due to Securewave/Lumension Device Control

We have a corporate security app and are just about ready to do a huge rollout of thinapps and we are having HUGE slowness because the Thinapps are somehow being forced not to stream, but are instead having to load the complete size of the application before it will start running.

We really can't disable Securewave/Lumension but need to get some of these thinapps out to our users.

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pbjork
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Best practices says you must not have on-access AV scanning activated on your ThinApp repository.. See more info: http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2012/02/antivirus-scanning-in-a-vmware-view-virtual-desktop-environm...

The repository should be read only for all your users, anyway..

One possible workaround might bee to make sure you use separate Data Container in all your projects. Sometimes this helps or at least you can exclude the file extension of your Data Containers from scanning.. You can change the extension from default .dat for your Data Containers if needed..

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getut
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Device control isn't an antivirus package. It is a security package that allows locking down removeable drives.

It is configurable to the device level, but has no configuration options to the directory level. There is something about Thinapp programs that is conflicting and making the streaming funtion not work. Device control does have the option to allow only certain file types on removable media, such as allowing SD cards to be used but only with picture files. We do use those features but there is nothing tagged at any point on the C: drive or mapped network share drives. I have tried the Thinapps in both locations and with Device control, the whole file has to download before it will start and without Device control, they will stream.

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pbjork
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If using a separate data container doesn't fix it must you file a support ticket. But in this case start with the vendor of Device control. Sounds like they must understand the file format ThinApp uses. They can very well do that using our freely available SDK.

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