ThinApp MS Visio 2010 or MS Project 2010 after Office 2010 is installed on the base.

[jbrungar]

Is it possible to ThinApp MS Visio 2010 or MS Project 2010 after Office 2010 has been installed on the base image?  We would have liked to ThinApp Office as well, but ran into too many issues and ended up leaving it in the base.  Has anyone tried been able to successfully accomplish the scenario above?

Thanks,

[psplnalin123]

it is possible in one of my customer infra i installed word,excel & powerpoint on the base and thinapp the visio 2010 & Access 2010

[gunnarb]

Sure its possible.  But the chances of that package working on another machine that doesn't have Office 2010 are not very high.  TA is going to capture the changes that occur during the installation.  If some DLL is already on the system then the Visio install isn't going to reinstall it, therefore the DLL wont' get captured.  This means on non-Office machines the TA most likely won't work.

Gunnar

[psplnalin123]

It will work if the package working on another machine that doesn't have Office 2010. Basically thinapp package will run on its own Virtual Bubble so it will definately work and its working in my infra.

[gunnarb]

I disagree.  THe way the TA package works is that it takes a "snapshot" (for lack of a better word) of the machine before hand and again afterwards.  It only captures the differences in the machine.  Again if Office is already installed and the package you are installing sees that and doesn't install something due to Office already being there, that package will not work on a machine without Office.

The smart move is to setup a capture station that is clean, this is VMware best practice.

Also, if you pay attention to the ThinApp team you will see they are working on the technology that will allow you to capture information post install, but this does not exist yet.

Gunnar

[psplnalin123]

I agree that i takes the differences between Prescan and Postscan and suppose if we do not have a office10  installed and we thinapp only the Visio or Access or Project in a clean system where no other office 10 components installed. It will work as I said earlier its working in one of my customer infra.

[gunnarb]

If Office isn't installed then of course it will work, that's how TA works.  I'm just trying to make sure he understands that on a non-clean system (depending on the application installed) you could miss something critical.  As I said, if whatever.DLL is already on the system so the installer decides not to install whatever.DLL, then whatever.DLL will not be in the TA package.  This means if that TA package is used on a machine that doesn't have whatever.DLL it won't work.  This is why it is recommended to package TA's on a clean machine.