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Could Not Create Directory Error with Office 2010

I am trying to ThinApp Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 on a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine.

Following VMware's suggested best practice, I have a shortcut on the VM's desktop to the Setup Capture program on the host computer, which is running Windows 7 Professional SP1.

I have been able to ThinApp several applications so far but Office is giving me problems.

I have run a prescan, installed and configured Office, and then go to run the postscan when I get an error that says "Could not create directory: \\cs13811\. . ." See the attached screen shot thinapp-error-1.png. When I click OK on that error window, I get a Could not execute window. See attached screenshot thinapp-error-2.png.

After that, when I try to access the host Win 7 machine from the WinXP VM I am not allowed to do so. Only after I restart the Win 7 machine am I able to access it from the VM.

I am running the trial version of ThinApp 4.6.1.

Any ideas?

- Paul Weir

P.S. This is the full path on the host machine that ThinApp is failing to create:

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware  ThinApp\Captures\Microsoft Office Professional Plus  2010\%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft Analysis Services\AS OLEDB\10\Resources  which does not meet the 256-character limit I have read about in  another forum thread.

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