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IE 6 Based ThinApps - One or Many?

Greetings,

In preparation for deploying Windows 7, we are looking into ThinApp and other virtualization options.  We use multiple web applications reliant on Internet Explorer 6.

How do your organizations handle scenarios like this?  For example, do you use a single ThinApp for IE6 and include all necessary add-ons / plugins?  Do you use one ThinApp per IE6 web app that requires an add-on / plugin?

In weighing the pros and cons of different approaches, I was also curious as to whether there are any benchmarks on:

A hard maximum number of users of a single streamed ThinApp, or the number of users prior to performance degredation (I assume this is based on IOPS)

Average IOPS per typical user in an IE6 ThinApp

Network usage per typical user in a streaming IE6 ThinApp

Thanks for any help!  My apologies if this is easy information that I have overlooked thus far.

Regards,

W

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admin
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Hi, I think you can use ThinApp IE6 pretty much the same as how you use the native IE6 by including all the add-ons/plugins. You can capture each add-on/plugin into separate package, and then applink all of them with the IE6 package. If these addon/plug packages have a problem working together, then you can have separate IE6 packages each applinking to some of the addon/plugin packages.

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12of12
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If you are streaming IE ... do AppLinks still work correctly?  Do the AppLinks need to be in the same location as IE?  Can the AppLinks be locally installed on machines?

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Lakshman
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