Hi

Just thin apped an engineering project management client side app .A server runs the Database/ hold docs for the app.

When I try to run the thin app first thing it does is tries to find a licence on the server running the app and gives an error

When you install on a normal pc it installs a service to do this.

The error is Service name not available 0x80040154 Class not registered

Ive checked the thin app and the service is included in the folder structure so should be ok.

Anyone seen a similar error message ?

Hello, I have been working on ThinApp-ing IE.  ThinApp IE6 and IE7 were pretty straight forward and simple.  However, when it came to IE 8, it is a whole different story.

Here are the things I did:

1. I started out with a clean Windows XP, SP3, 32bit, Workgroup, VM.

2. I did all the Express security updates, not the Optionals.

3. Installed ThinApp 4.7.2

4. Pre-Scan

5. Do a windows updates, go to Optional updates.

6. Installed IE 8 from Windows Updates.

7. Open IE 8, change the homepage, uncheck the box so it will not check and see if IE will be the default browser.

8. Close IE

9. Post-Scan, Capture, Build

10. Tested it on Windows 7, 64bit, our production base image.

11. IE 8 opens, but you can only see the outline of the IE, then it closes immediately.

I tried download the offline version of IE 8, failed.

I tried to install Java and/or Flash with the IE, failed.

I tried to update to IE7, PreScan, update to IE 8, failed.

I tried to PreScan, update to IE7, update to IE 8, failed.

I tried to leave all IE 8 setting as default, didn't open it before PostScan, failed.

Is there some sort of log I can check and see what is causing my IE8 crashing??  I did read about the protected mode, but I do not see that anywhere in Internet Options in IE8.

I used the procedure in http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026674

I am using the latest ThinApp, I think, 4.7.2

Please help!!  Thanks!

how to edit existing thin app application?

hi there

our customer is using an application, wich uses the .Net Feature "ClickOnce" this is an automated installation and updating procedure from .net.

If a user start a such application the first time, it will download programm data to the local part of the users profile appdata.

In an classic environment, the user has to download these data once per workstation.

but when using floating desktops, the installation happens everytime when the user gets a new desktop.

redirecting the local part of appdata is not, what we want to do.

has anyone expirence how to generate an thinapp from such a application? the entry point to start the app is an webserver url.

regards angelo

Hi everyone,

we're experiencing another problem with the thinapp of Firefox; since Mozilla Firefox 50.x, the thinapp the packaged application only shows a white screen, even without the menubar.

We've seen this problem in Firefox versions 50.0.2, 50.1.0, 51.0 and 51.0.1.

Thinapps of Firefox versions 49.0.2 and lower, work fine.

We've tried:
- 32b Firefox
- 64b Firefox
- Thinapp 5.2.2
- Thinapp 5.1.0
- base image (only OS)
- production image
- and all combinations of the above

Our OS is Windows 7 (Enterprise N), SP1, 64b.

As a build option in the package.ini, necessarry since Firefox version 49.x, we added
ExternalDLLs=ucrtbase.dll

We ran LogMonitor but couldn't identify the problem.

Does anyone encounter the same issues?
And if so, and when solved, what was the solution to the problem?

I attached a printscreen of the empty/white firefox screen and the LogMonitor-file.

Does anyone have an idea to the solution?

Thanks
Jousma

Hello,

Does anyone know how to permanently delete old sandboxes in the \user\appdata\roaming\thinstall directory? If I delete them wait for some time for Persona to record changes,restart a new floating desktop, all of the sandboxes I deleted are back. These are to Thinapps that are no longer being served by View, and therefore the package was a test and has long been deleted itself. I now find my roaming profile filled with obsolete sandboxes, and one sandbox that causes my current Thinapp to fail so I need to get that one deleted as well. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Geoff

Hi, this my first post on the VMWare forum and i'll like to know how to make Sony vegas pro 14 executable from an USB stick using thinapp

I've tried but Vegas continue saying that some DLLs are missing and returns "Application initialization error : ERROR CODE -59"

I will be very happy if anyone could help me with that because i need it for high school

(DLLs missing):

-MSVCP110.dll

-MSVCR110.dll

-VCOMP110.dll

P.S.: i'm french so my english is not perfect, sorry in advance...

thanks,

-3Rwan10

Wonder if anyone can help, bit of a weird one, I have successfully thinapped Office 2013 and it appears to be working fine except for one thing, the previewer in Outlook will not work, when you click on an attachment to preview it either comes up with "unable to load dll oart.dll ... access denied" or the following message "This file can't be previewed because ofan error in the Microsoft Word previewer", the access denied message has me wondering but that dll is present in the captured package in the Office15 folder.

Please see details of the thinapp:

- Office Standard 2013 32bit captured on Windows 7 vanilla 32bit, straight capture, no plugins etc

- Steaming to Window 7 64bit (not sure if that is an issue? everything I've read said it should be fine streaming Office 32bit to Windows 7 64bit)

- Using ThinApp 5.1.0

- Outlook previewer is working fine locally on the thinapp machine

- I'm only testing the previewer on other Office documents (word, excel etc)

This is a minor issue but our users will be expecting the previewer to be working.

Any ideas?

Throwing this out there before I log this with VMware, VMWare engineering team successfully resolved an issue we had with Outlook email previewing not working, unfortunately since the fix we have migrated from Standard to Professional Pro, the fix for the Outlook previewing still works but we now have an issue where printing from Outlook will only print to the default printer no matter what printer you choose, it appears to just ignore your printer choice and send to default, anyone experienced this? All other Office applications are printing fine, just Outlook is displaying this behaviour.

- Office Professional Plus 2013 32bit captured on Windows 7 vanilla 32bit, straight capture, no plugins etc

- Steaming to Window 7 64bit

- Using ThinApp 5.2.2 build 4978772

- Outlook is printing fine from capture machine, does not revert to default printer

Hi,

we are running different virtual applications with thinapp on windows 10.
After upgrading to windows 10 creator update these applications crash.

Every time the event viewer shows an error 1000, Application crash, Faulting Module c:\windows\system32\oleaut32.dll.

We tried with thinapp 5.2 and 5.2.2.

Is this a known issue with the creator update ?

Kind Regards,

Verheijden Thierry.

[Best Practice] VMware ThinApp 5 and Office 2013

Ever since I got my hands on ThinApp 5, I've been trying to thinapp Office 2013. I've tried it in various ways and I think I should give something back to the forum by sharing my experience.

I captured Office 2013 by following this guidebut also did some tweaking and tuning by myself.

Let's start!

1. Extract the Microsoft Office 2013 installation files.
2. Edit the config.xml file located in the suite.WW directory where suite is the suite of Office you are installing. i.e. for professional plus it's proplus.ww
3. Add these lines to the bottom of the file above </ Configuration>
   • For KMS licensing activation:
     
     <Setting Id="KMSSERVICENAME" Value="kmsserver.domain.com"/>
     <Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1"/>
     
     Note: Replace kmsserver.domain.com with your KMS server name.
     
     
   • For MAK licensing activation:
     
     <PIDKEY Value="AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE"/>
     <Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1"/>
     <Setting Id="USEROPERATIONS" Value="1"/>
     
     Note: Replace AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE with your MAK information.
     
     
4. Run the Setup Capture wizard and take a prescan.
5. If the deployment operating systems do not all have the same version of .NET installed, capture .NET. For more information, seePackaging guide for .NET (2069188).
6. Start the Microsoft Office 2013 setup wizard.
7. Click Customize for the type of installation.
8. Click Microsoft Office> Run all from My Computer or do your own customization and choose the specific tools you want to install.
9. Click Install Now.
10. Launch an Office component, disable auto updates, run through the welcome assistant and do any other customization.
    • For faster startup of Excel, Word and PowerPoint, do this:
      • Go into options of each application
      • Untick the option "Show the Start screen when this application starts"
        
    • Note: When you start an office application it will log you on with the windows account you're currently working with which in my case was the domain admin.
      This shouldn't bother you at this point as I will you show you how to get rid of this later on.
      
11. Stop the OSPP service.
12. Take a Postscan.
13. If required, modify the Inventory name.
14. Open the file HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt and edit it as shown:
    • Add to the bottom of the file:
      
      isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsSearch\Preferences
      Value=PreventIndexingOutlook
      REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00"
      
      
15. Now, to remove the admin account open the file HKEY_CURRENT_USER.txt and edit it as shown:
    1. Search for common\identity
    2. If you want to remove the account and also prevent your users from logging in with their AD accounts, do this:
       • Delete all lines that have to do anything with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity
    3. If you just want to remove your "setup account" but keep the ability to let your users log in, do this:
       • Delete all lines and that have anything to do with your "setup account" but keep these:
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity
           Value=Version
           REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00
           Value=FederationCacheExpiration
           REG_SZ~2014-02-27T09:49:34Z#2300
           
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\DocToIdMapping
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Identities
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Profiles
       • I've attached a before and after file example for further explanation
         
16. Build the project.

There's one thing though I haven't been able to work out.

Whenever I add a required applink in the file Package.ini, Office fails to start any application. Instead, a screen pops up where Office tries to install an "Office Feature" but fails to do so and then just quits.

Has anyone been able to add applinks for Office 2013?

Regards

Marius

Wondering if anyone can help, I have a VBScript which is attempting to copy a folder to the local sandbox but it keeps copying to the virtual file system, is there a way around this? I have implemented a msgbox to verify the path I have specified and it's given me the location of the local sandbox but when it copies the folder it copies to %AppData%/Local on the virtual file system. Hope my explanation makes sense. I'm assuming the redirect is by design.

Hello,

I have captured an application but when I start it I got the error:

Missing Import C:\Windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll->kernelbase.dll:CreateProcessA

This dll is in the package at %SystemSystem%.

When I use the package entry externaldll:ucrtbase.dll then the error "shifts" to another dll.

Please can anyone give me a hint whats going wrong?

TIA

Hi

Ive thinapped Visio 2013 it works fine most times but at random times it tries to start and runs a configuration wizard then errors with a licencing problem.

When I look in the event logs for the VDI I get the below error

Log Name:      Application

Source:        MsiInstaller

Date:          16/09/2014 14:14:14

Event ID:      1015

Task Category: None

Level:         Warning

Keywords:      Classic

User:          PLC\sits.test

Computer:      JFDBX-W7-FC4-27.plc.james-fisher.co.uk

Description:

Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070005

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="MsiInstaller" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1015</EventID>

    <Level>3</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-16T13:14:14.000000000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>4158</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>JFDBX-W7-FC4-27.plc.james-fisher.co.uk</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1409082233-1965331169-839522115-62676" />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>0x80070005</Data>

    <Data>(NULL)</Data>

    <Data>(NULL)</Data>

    <Data>(NULL)</Data>

    <Data>(NULL)</Data>

    <Data>(NULL)</Data>

    <Data>

    </Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

The  previous event is a licence check

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Office Software Protection Platform Service
Date:          16/09/2014 14:14:06
Event ID:      1003
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      JFDBX-W7-FC4-27.plc.james-fisher.co.uk
Description:
The Software Protection service has completed licensing status check.
Application Id=0ff1ce15-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663
Licensing Status=
1: 2b88c4f2-ea8f-43cd-805e-4d41346e18a7, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]
2: 44a1f6ff-0876-4edb-9169-dbb43101ee89, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]
3: ac4efaf0-f81f-4f61-bdf7-ea32b02ab117, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]
4: b322da9c-a2e2-4058-9e4e-f59a6970bd69, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Office Software Protection Platform Service" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="16384">1003</EventID>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-16T13:14:06.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>4157</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>JFDBX-W7-FC4-27.plc.james-fisher.co.uk</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>0ff1ce15-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663</Data>
    <Data>
1: 2b88c4f2-ea8f-43cd-805e-4d41346e18a7, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]
2: 44a1f6ff-0876-4edb-9169-dbb43101ee89, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]
3: ac4efaf0-f81f-4f61-bdf7-ea32b02ab117, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]
4: b322da9c-a2e2-4058-9e4e-f59a6970bd69, 1, 0 [(0 [0xC004F014, 0, 0], [(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)(?)])(1 )(2 )]

</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Hi everybody,

I tried to virtualize outlook 2010. When I launch it for the first time on my computer all works! But If I restart my computer, outlook try to configure himself again and I've got an error :

Error 1719: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed...

And in the windows  event viewer  i've got a warning: MSIINSTALLER -- failed server connexion : error 0x80070002

I have found this solution :

modify before building the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.TXT file and add the following:

isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSIServer

Value=ImagePath

REG_EXPAND_SZ~"%SystemSystem%\msiexec.exe" /V#2300

But il didn't work, another solution was to start the msi service but it didn't work...

I don't know what to do , so please help me

Has anyone attempted to ThinApp these?  I've abandoned .NET 4 as it is a completely different install than previous versions (at least in the beta, it installs in 2 portions).  I don't mind this so much as in the end, .NET is essentially a system component anyway...but i digress. 

After installing .NET 4 beta manually, I try to capture the VS 2010 Beta installation.  Everything goes pretty smoothly (though, trying to create an MSI usually fails...and even when it doesn't, the MSI doesn't work).   However, after launching and getting the splash screen, I select any of the options to build with and as it begins to configure, i'm presented with a warning:

"Invalid license data.  Reinstall is required"

Great.  So, a beta product that required no license thinks I have 'invalid license data'.  After some research, I found this:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/522442/vs-2010-b2-fails-to-start-displays-error-invalid-license-data-reinstall-is-required

So, it's a known bug that seems to be happening in some cases.  Unfortunately, the ONLY cases i'm seeing of this are occuring when I try to capture the install.  The application works just fine on the capture machine. 

Any ideas?

Hi Cievo ,

I am facing one issue in Thinapp  ,

1] Prescan

2] Installing the application and Applying .TPZ license and checking whether the license is activated .

3] Postscan

4] Configure

5] Build

After the build , the license is not working in clean test .

Regards,

Santosh Dalvi

Hi, this my first post on the VMWare forum and i'll like to know how to make Sony vegas pro 14 executable from an USB stick using thinapp

I've tried but Vegas continue saying that some DLLs are missing and returns "Application initialization error : ERROR CODE -59"

I will be very happy if anyone could help me with that because i need it for high school

(DLLs missing):

-MSVCP110.dll

-MSVCR110.dll

-VCOMP110.dll

P.S.: i'm french so my english is not perfect, sorry in advance...

thanks,

-3Rwan10

Hi All,

Has anyone had much luck ThinApping iTunes 9.1? (new version). I can get it to work on a 32 bit windows XP, but the moment i take it over to Windows 7 64 bit it crashes (even when i comment out the line WoW =64 from the .ini).

Any help is appreciated.

I have created a virtual machine (VMWare) and in it I have an .xml file that I have associated to open with a custom utility and it works fine in the VM. So I created a thinapp but when I run this thinapp from my local machine the .xml file open with internet explorer as on my local machine .xml is associated with IE and not with my custom utility which is embedded in .dat.

How do I get thinapp to remember the VM's association and not the local machine?