I am trying to ThinApp Sql Server 2005 SP 2, but so far have not had success.

I've followed the suggestions in the following links, and the database works fine on my clean PC, but I get errors when I try to run the ThinApp on other machines.

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2008/11/how-to-thinapp.html

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1006992&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=12638526&stateId=1%200%2012642237

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=154-154671xml&sliceId=&docTypeID=DT_COMMUNITIES_1_1&dialogID=12646964&stateId=1%200%2012654147

For testing, I am starting with a clean copy of 32-bit Windows XP with SP3 and all updates installed (host system is XP x64). I start the ThinApp capture and then run a custom installer that installs SQL Server 2005 Express SP2 on the computer and creates a server instance called SQLEXPRESS_CQSG2 with an sa account and password.

I then install the SQL Server Management Studio SP2 and create the ThinApp using all the defaults including merged isolation mode.

When I attempt to run the management studio on a Windows XP 32-bit box, it starts up but cannot connect to the server instance:

I checked, and the server instance does allow remote connections. I also get connection errors when I try to run the Configuration Manager and the Surface Area Configuration program. Also, attempting to connect to the database using the Native Client ADO provider fails with a connection string (Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=.\SQLEXPRESS_CQSG2;Uid=sa;Pwd=xyzzy) that works fine in a non-ThinApp environment.

I checked the log file in C:\Documents and Settings\Fred\Application Data\Thinstall\Microsoft SQL Server 2005\%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG and it contains:

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86)

Feb 9 2007 22:47:07

Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation

Express Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 3)

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server (c) 2005 Microsoft Corporation.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server All rights reserved.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server Server process ID is 3852.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server Authentication mode is MIXED.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG'.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.43 Server This instance of SQL Server last reported using a process ID of 2804 at 12/31/2008 12:34:51 PM (local) 12/31/2008 8:34:51 PM (UTC). This is an informational message only; no user action is required.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.44 Server Registry startup parameters:

2008-12-31 13:44:34.44 Server -d C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf

2008-12-31 13:44:34.44 Server -e C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG

2008-12-31 13:44:34.44 Server -l C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf

2008-12-31 13:44:34.49 Server SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.49 Server Detected 2 CPUs. This is an informational message; no user action is required.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.62 Server Error: 8313, Severity: 16, State: 1.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.62 Server Error in mapping SQL Server performance object/counter indexes to object/counter names. SQL Server performance counters are disabled.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.62 Server Error: 3409, Severity: 16, State: 1.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.62 Server Performance counter shared memory setup failed with error -1. Reinstall sqlctr.ini for this instance, and ensure that the instance login account has correct registry permissions.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.77 Server Using dynamic lock allocation. Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.80 Server The time stamp counter of CPU on scheduler id 1 is not synchronized with other CPUs.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.85 Server Database mirroring has been enabled on this instance of SQL Server.

2008-12-31 13:44:34.85 spid5s Starting up database 'master'.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.07 spid5s Error: 19098, Severity: 16, State: 1.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.07 spid5s An error occurred starting the default trace. Cause: 0x80070050(The file exists.) Use sp_configure to turn off and then turn on the 'default trace enabled' advanced server configuration option.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.10 spid5s Starting up database 'mssqlsystemresource'.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.10 spid5s Error: 824, Severity: 24, State: 6.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.10 spid5s SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error: insufficient bytes transferred. It occurred during a read of page (1:0) in database ID 32767 at offset 0000000000000000 in file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\mssqlsystemresource.mdf'. Additional messages in the SQL Server error log or system event log may provide more detail. This is a severe error condition that threatens database integrity and must be corrected immediately. Complete a full database consistency check (DBCC CHECKDB). This error can be caused by many factors; for more information, see SQL Server Books Online.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.13 spid5s Error: 945, Severity: 14, State: 2.

2008-12-31 13:44:35.13 spid5s Database 'mssqlsystemresource' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details.

Using cmd.exe in the ThinApp, I checked and the mssqlsystemresource.mdf file does exist when I CD to c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\ and do a DIR.

Could this be some sort of permissions issue?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Fred

Hi,

I'd like to create this software CAD as portable.

At the end of the ThinApp wizard, ThinApp pre-select some entry points of my application.

How can I decide if I need to select other entry points ?

Usually I don't change anything, and when I test this application, an error occur '....impossible to load c:\Program files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\SolidWorks.exe....'

This software need some prerequisites, as Microsoft Search, Microsoft .net and other.

I red that I need to capture any prerequisites singularly.

I need to lunch this before my CAD portable or I can integrate together ?

Some suggestions ?

Regards,

Alessandro

Hello All

This is my first time using ThinApp , i am doing a proof of concept on usage of thinapp, We have a application which uses acrobat pro and jre 1.5 . I have packaged both and made an entry point as IE and then build the package and move the exe from bin folder to users desktop.

Everything works fine for most of the functions but there is a functionality where this application sends workflow notification in users outlook inbox with the url to the app ,the issue here is thay the url opens the default IE and then applicaton fails due to jre mismatch issues 

I tried searching for some way to do this in HTML , some how specify URL to be opened in a specific application like the packaged IE in my  case but i am unable to find any leads.

The non working url looks like this

"<a href= "F:\thinapp\iexplore.exe"  "http://fcgdmfdappdev01:8080/rdms/component/drl?objectId=0913b6e980010902&format=pdf" target='_blank'> Test this Workflow </a>"

Any ideas??

I'm trying to thinapp Java JRE (latest) so it is used when the user launches the local IE on the workstation.  Is it hopeless?  I know I can create an IE entry point on the Java exe created by Thinapp but then you are not launching the local IE.  I am hoping the user can browse around the web and Java can load when needed.  This is so elegant with a thinapped Firefox, I just plonk the controls (Java, Flash, etc) into the OptionalAppLinks directory and it just works.  I realize in this case Firefox and the local IE are apples and oranges:  Firefox is thinapped and local IE is not.

Am I chasing my tail here?  I am hoping to not build a "custom IE" loaded with all the plugins that I have to babysit.  Can I create a thinapp package that is just a shortcut to IE?  Set the OptionalAppLinks parameter, then drop in plugins like I do for Firefox?  I guess I'm asking for what others are doing.

We are using IE7 on XPsp3.

Many thanks!

Scott

I'm trying to understand if i am doing something wrong or if it's just the way it is.

I'm practicing packaging application with thinapp, i tried Microsoft Office 2007, Winrar, Acrobat Reader 9, Firefox 3.0.7, Google Chrome and Skype 4.0 with success.

There are some differences in the user experience that i would like to solve, if possible:

1) when i right click on a .zip file i have no menues for unzipping it with Winrar;

2) PDF files are not previewed in Vista, you just get the regular PDF icon on files;

3) is there a way to hide the little popup windows on the bottom right when a thinapp application is fired?

4) when opening a PDF from the web using IE or any other broser you get the choice to save or open it, but it should actually open the file in the browser instead

I realized that these issued might not be because of my mistakes but just the normal behavior of thinapped apps; i am just thinking about all the support requests i will get once i will put this into production just because things are slightly different than a regular full desktop user experience.

Thanks for your support.

Hallo,

I have captured Ansys-12 with Thinapp-4.0.3-3313 on Windows-XP-SP3, when I start Workbench it work normally, but when I close it, one of the services (SolverManager.exe) continues running, therefore I can not start the application again(I don't get any error), and i must kill it first by the task manager then I can start it again. I have asked support by Ansys, but they said that the service is needed for other part of the application and it must be running after closing the application. They said that they do not support virtualization of application

How do I tell if a service that has been virtualize with an app has been started since I am no longer able to look under services.msc to see if it is running.

This question is for the Vmware folks - Is Vmware changing the name to ThinAPP Enterprise?  If so, can you throw some light why?  It's no secret that  4.0.4 is available everywhere on the Internet now.  Can you guys, at least now, indicate when we can expect an official release?  It is so ironic that you can download the new version from everywhere expect your site.

this is the first time i try ThinApp,  i tried to capture the installation of TortoiseSVN1.6.6 ,here is what i did:

1. open ThinApp, did a pre installation scan

2. install TortoiseSVN,

3. did the Post installation scan

4. check all the exe files ThinApp find for me (some exe are not selected by default), set TortoiseSVN.exe as the main file conatining data)

5. build  file(not msi format, not compressed)

then i uninstall the tortoisesvn, restart my computer , try to run the TortoiseSVN.exe ThinApp has built for me, but there's no tortoisesvn menu entries in the windows explorer context menu. Anything wrong in my steps?

I have been able to integrate IE applications with Adobe and Microsoft Office using Applink. The problem I continue to have is removing the option to ask before downloading an Excel or Word doc. You can select to not ask before opening which will save while you are logged in but we are using View with non persistent desktops so the option doesn't stick. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks

I'm trying to thinapp AutoCAD 2010 Civil 3D with ThinApp 4.0.4.

During capture I get the following errors:

Could not copy file C:\WINDOWS\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\index45.dat -> E:\ACAD\%SystemRoot%\assembly\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_32\index45.dat

Could not copy file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngenrootstorelock.dat -> E:\ACAD\%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngenrootstorelock.dat

Could not copy file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\ngenservice_pri1_lock.dat -> E:\ACAD\%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\ngenservice_pri1_lock.dat

I don't think this errors are a problem because this are locked temp files...

But when I launch AutoCAD I get the following errors:

1st launch thinapp package: This version of AutoCAD was not installed properly and some featurures may not run correctly. You should reinstall AutoCAD immediately to make sure all features are working properly. Do you wish to continue anyway? (This error comes with every launch)

1st launch thinapp package: No Profile name exists: <<C3D_Benelux>> Will create Profile with default settings. (This error is only during first launch so a sbmerge probably will fix this one)

3e launch: The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is niet available. Insert the 'AutoCAD civil 3D 2010 Language Pack - English' disk and click OK. (A sbmerge will also probably fix this one)

How to get rid of the error that AutoCAD isn't installed properly?

I think it has something to do with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 but I can't get figure it out...

The way I captured AutoCAD is:

run a prescan

install AutoCAD

reboot

launch the program and click around

close the program

run a postscan

standard settings selected in thinapp

build the program

(on my package machine .NET Framework is NOT installed. The installer of AutoCAD installs .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 during capture! Also tried to capture AutoCAD 2010 with .NET Framework allready installed but no difference )

Hopefully somebody knows how to get rid of this error!

Started my Trial of 4.5. I am trying to thinapp autocad 2010. After the postscan I select only the Acad.exe. I have tried selecting both User profile and USB packaging types. Neither of which work when I try building it. When it tries to build it, it fails and says " ACAD.exe is not a valid executable." Not sure what the heck is going on as I am not too familiar with thinapp. Any help would be appreciated.

This is on a fresh vm of windows 7 on workstation 7.01. 

I have Office 2007 installed locally on my Windows XP machine. Using ThinApp 4.5, I have thinapp's MS Great Plains 10, and for the most part it works great. Problem is when I try to do a smartlist and export the results to Excel, it fails saying that MS Excel is not installed. Same if I try to export to MS Word.

So I fire up the diag mode cmd.exe I created with the thinapp, and launch excel.exe.. It launches but goes thru the welcome wizard as if it's never been launched before.. and of course I've launched Excel locally several times. For some reason the thinapp is starting Excel as some other user profile. This is further confirmed by the fact that my 'Recent Documents" list in the locally launched Excel is different than if I launch Excel from the thinapp's cmd.exe. Running the exact same excel.exe mind you.. That's crazy.. Why does it do that?

I've managed a work around to get smartlist to actually export to Excel, by running appwiz.cpl from the diag mode cmd.exe and running a repair on Office 2007, it fails with an error 1719, but then I can export from GP to Excel, although still in some funky profile.. This work around would be fine if I only had to do it on a few PC's, but I have to do this workaround for every person that runs GP.. it's a pain!

Does this make sense? Why do locally installed Office apps not launch correctly from thinapp'd apps? Thanks for any help!!

Hello,

First time poster and I'm pretty new to application packaging. I was just brought onto the team at my workplace and ran into a huge brick wall with this application.

Background: Our finance department uses an ADP hosted Citrix environment for one of their job functions. They go to a website which requires the installation of the Citrix Online Plugin V12-web plugin. This is an active x plugin for Internet Explorer. When they log in they are given three links. These links launch a .ICA file and then the plugin will connect to the Citrix environment (hosted at ADP) and, for example, map a drive on our client computer to access specific files in the remote location.

Problem: When I package the application I cannot get the necessary functions to, well, function.

What did I do: I took a clean VM and did a pre-scan. Then I installed the plugin. Then I confirmed that I could connect to the website and perform the necessary functions. Then I did a postscan. I captured the application in Merged-isolation mode. I built the application as a separate .DAT file and I enabled all of the plugin executables as entry points, as the application uses several of the executables during the normal operation. I also enabled internet explorer and configured it to go directly to the website. The user will simply launch this IE shortcut.

Results: I can log in to the website. Internet Explorer recognizes that the Active X plugin is there and enabled. I click the .ICA file link and IE downloads it to a temporary directory and fails. Well, no file association. So I associated the .ICA file with the entry point wfcrun32.exe which is how it is configured on the capture VM. Tried again. ThinApp launches wfcrun32.exe and then nothing happens.

Theories: In my research it looks like the Active X plugin, upon entry to the website, automatically launches wfcrun32.exe in the background under the svchost.exe service (this is what it does in the capture VM). When you click the .ICA link, wfcrun32.exe executes it and then calls wfica32.exe (another entry point). This actually creates the Citrix connection. For some reason this is not happening correctly.

Note: Running wfcrun32.exe or wfica32.exe against a downloaded .ICA file exhibits the same results - It looks like it is launching and then nothing happens.

Has anyone had any experience with this by chance? Any other ideas to look into?

Thanks,

Richard

So, I've thinapp'd Orca, the, I can't live without it, MSI editor from the Microsoft SDK.

Orca, being an MSI editor, associates itself with .msi files.  You right click on an msi and you get Install, Repair, Uninstall, Edit with Orca.

No Probs, thinreg handles that very nicely.

Problem.

All .msi's now have Orca as the default icon instead of the default icon from msiexec.exe

Is there a way to prevent thinreg from overwriting the existing DefaultIcon for the file association?

or

Is there a way to specify the default icon for FileTypes?

Aesthetics can make all the difference to the end user experience.

Hi,

I've ThinApped IE6 and Word 2003, and natively installed Office 2010. What I need is that every document I open from ThinApped IE6, opens to ThinApped Word 2003.

The problem is that if I have Word 2010 already running on my computer, and I try to open document from ThinApped IE, it opens to Word 2010.

If I don't have the Word 2010 running, documents opens fine to Word 2003.

Is there any solution for this?

-Jose

Let's say we wan't to deploy a windows shortcut to \\fs1\apps\test.exe. We can do a prescan, create the shortcut manually, do a postscan and a build. Starting the thinapped shortcut works great, but when we want to integrate this in view 4.5 it does not work. Scanning the shortcut.msi (and yes we put msistreaming=1 in the package.ini) does not work, the view admin gui says INVALID!

Any idea or best practive to deploy a shortcut to an exe on a windows share with thinapp 4.6 an view 4.5?

Thnaks.

Hi

   I  have been trying to find out a forum or an article to thinapp Adobe acrobat but couldn’t find a complete solution. After reading several forums, Here is what I did and struck

So I am wondering, Has any one successfully managed to create PDf from office files from ‘Create PDF’ button in Acrobat.  If you have any solution then We could add that to our master base image. As a work around we have pdf creator software installed on the base image and users are creating PDFS from there.

      But users would like to use the create pdf feature from Acrobat as they have been using in a native installation without any issues. We are talking about 200 users at least in here.

Hi

I've thin apped 2 differnt applications one is ispring pro and the otherr is orgplus pro 9.

Both these applications uses microsoft power point. When its trying to use Power point i'm geeting the following error message.

Microsoft office Powerpoint has encounterd a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the incovinence.

Hope every one understood what the eror message is. Its a big screen i can't copy that screen shoot its n't allowing me.

Even i tried changing th issolation mode at attributes level but still no use..

Other than this every thing works fine for me. Any Help Appreciated....

We have a web-based app that checks to see if you have Java 1.6.0_U21 installed.  I'm trying to follow the instructions in the various blog posts on thinapping java, but getting stuck.

Firstly, the old blog posts still apply to the old versions of thinapp, so I'm needing to do a bit of translation to the new version which seems to fix some problems already. What I'm trying to do is thinapp this JRE to get it to run the native IE in the sandbox with 1.6.0_U21 available as a plugin.  I am doing the capture on a clean XP SP3 VM.  After doing the install and build I revert the VM to the pre-installed state and this captured version runs IE just fine with the plugin.  However it doesn't work on my Windows 7 desktop.  I get the following error in my event log:

Faulting application name: java.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4c417649
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16695, time stamp: 0x4cc7ab86
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00046d04
Faulting process id: 0x7ac4
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc2b95a1c279b7
Faulting application path: C:\Users\testuser\AppData\Roaming\Thinstall\Java(TM) 6 Update 21\SKEL\77a3d9c34c7bd3fa455a259833675586a865b\java.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: dfe814c7-9788-11e0-b175-005056c00008

Is this because my Windows 7 is 64-bit?

I've seen that 4.6.1 is supposed to not require you to delete any files in the %systemsystem% directory of the captured stuff.  Indeed those files aren't in there before a build.

Any tips for figuring out what's going wrong?