Hello all. First time poster, long time reader. I have packaged Internet Explorer 8 in accordance with the instructions found here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026674
I also read through about ten to fifteen Internet Explorer packaging articles on VMware's site. I think I'm mildly frustrated because there is not one single cohesive page on VMware's site where all things Internet Explorer are captured. Enough ranting, on with the issue.
I captured IE8 on a clean Vista Business 32-bit VM. I installed one cumulative update (from KB file, not through Windows Update.) I made a couple of settings and shortcut changes and built the application. I'm testing on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (but only the 32-bit browser I captured. I know that 64-bit capture and build is not yet supported.)
I tried the first build with all the defaults - default isolation modes, default folder structure, etc. Locally installed Flash on testing machines would not work initially. I finally fixed the issue, but it's too many changes later for me to tell you which one specifically corrected the problem. Sorry. I've been at this for three weeks (which is about two and a half weeks too long, if you ask me.) Locally installed Silverlight and Java worked right off the bat.
There is one lingering issue that appears to have to do with Flash. I'll use one site as my poster child: http://sports.yahoo.com . Page only loads partially or never loads or gets stuck in an inifinite loading loop when default settings are used. I tried Full isolation mode on %Internet Cache% and the page loads better (more consistently), but still gets stuck, never fully loading. WriteCopy didn't change anything. I didn't really want to cache temporary Internet files in the sandbox anyway.
Standard corporate image is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, no SP1, Trend Micro 10. I've tried disabling Trend Micro altogether, I've tried testing on an SP1 machine, I've tried testing on the VM I captured on (both before and after installing Flash, deleting sandbox before each test,) all to no avail when it comes to the Flash/caching issue.
One article I read seemed to indicate that AppLink to a capture of the Flash ActiveX install will not work. Any truth to that notion?
Any suggestions? (And please, refrain from suggesting another browser. I really need a fully functional 32-bit IE8 on Windows 7.)