provisioning apps that install to \AppData\Local\

[Douglas42Adams]

Hi ,

I have a cross post in UEM/DEM as well .

Anyone know if an Application installs itself to \AppData\local .. if the Provisioning machine / process will bring that over to the instant clone ?

In my Experience it did not .  Just curious if im doing something wrong .

The App is Google CHAT.. ( not hangouts ).  There is no Chrome extension for Chat yet.. Or id happily use that . There is for hangouts .

There is a Manual install exe that appears to install the EXE in \Appdata\Local\Google\Hangouts Chat\.

I installed the app on our provisioning machines .

The app appears there on the provisioning machine .

When i run it - it prompts for login ..etc. 

I push the app stack out to an instant clone the app doesnt show up under \appdata\local\Google\Hangouts chat\... indeed there is NO Hangouts Chat at all :smileysilly: .

We are Not using Writables.. ( as they are the devil )

At the moment there doesnt appear to be a method of changing the Google Chat install directory via command line ... we have not contacted Google support as of yet though .

Is this 'normal' behavior' of AppStacks Not to pull over an App from the provisioning machine to the instant clone - that installs itself into \AppData\local ?

thanks .

[sjesse]

Check the snapvolume config file(standard appstacks have one too)

Using the VMware App Volumes snapvol.cfg File to Customize Writable Volumes | VMware End-User Comput...

and check, but I'm pretty sure most user profile stuff is removed. Look into what someone mentioned on your other post, you can create a custom config to export the files on logoff and reimport them on logon.

[Ray_handels · Accepted solution]

The appstack is read only and it does not contain any user data like APPV. Thing is these are physical paths and there is no isolation so Appvolumes will not be able to store any info that is whithin the c:\user of HCKU into an Appstack. So you are not doing anything wrong, it is just how it is build.

If these are just files you could try and copy them during logon with UEM. Or run an install every tiome a user logs in to install that functionality.

If you ask me, installing software into the user profile is just bad programming. Normally you would be able to get an administrative installer that puts data into the program files folders. If not you should be looking at workarounds.

[ap_idb]

You would need to deploy it outside of appvolumes. This will be tricky, because if you deploy via GPO for example, it may deploy at computer or user logon and UEM may not be ready in time for it.

Personally, I try to avoid these apps. I've never heard of "Google Chat" and everything that comes back is hangouts. I'm a big google user and was hoping this would be of interest to me.