Hey guys,

today for the first time ever I stumbled over an error message on a thinapped Firefox 17.0.1 packaged with TA 4.7.3 and run on Vista SP2 x86.

The error message: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Could_not_initialize_the_browser_security_component

I captured FF with all standard configs and did everything like I do it always and like it runs on all my machines.

Any ideas?

My question is about the program Just Gesture which require net framework 3.5 to run. How to package the program so it will run on my OS, which is Windows xp, without installing net framework 3.5?

Thanks!       

[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

My company would like to try and Thinapp Visio 2016. I am first wanting to know if this is possible or if we should Thinapp Visio 2013 instead.

If it is possible, any documentation for help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi guys

I am having an application which runs with an Access frontend (*.mde) and has in the background an oracle database.

Up till now the software was only compatible with access 2003 and we had the following installations thinapped:

- Access 2003

- Oracle Client

- Oracle ODBC Connection

- some regkeys

Now the application is compatible with access 2016. Access 2016 is installed on our base image, so we don't need to thinapp access 2016. We only need the Oracle Client, ODBC Connection, Regkeys... but the entry point has to be Access.

For example:

[XYZ.exe]

Source="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSACCESS.EXE"              (--> also tried it with %programdir% variable)

WorkingDirectory=\\Server\Share

CommandLine="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSACCESS.EXE" /runtime "\\Server\Share\Access.mde

Shortcuts=%Desktop%

But at the end of the build process I get the Information that it can't find %programdir%\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSACCESS.EXE"

I guess it's looking for this path into the capture folder and not on the physical machine. How can I make this working or is it not possible?

The [Isolation] is set to: DirectoryIsolationMode=Merged

Kind regards

llips

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?

I have tested several of my apps, and they don't seem to work in the beta.

Could this be a problem for old packages then when Windows 7 is released also?

John Inge

Looking for some clarity on a couple of areas related to relinking Thinapps as I'm either reading conflicting statements or am having trouble finding concrete information. We have a lot of streaming Thinapps (MSIStreaming=1) that were build on v 5.1.x of the runtime and we are looking to update them in place to 5.2.2. KB article #2030593 states that ALL files in the .\bin\ directory need to be relinked, which for many of these means it will relink .EXEs, .MSIs, .DATs and .DAT.ALTs.

Now, because they are streaming, I can't exactly just copy/paste the new packages over the existing ones. Nor can I relink in place (I think; this didn't seem to work when I tried in. The process completes successfully, but running EXE -thinstallversion still reported the old runtime version). So as I understand, the side by side/in-place upgrade method is preferred here.

Now, when I do an in-place upgrade, the product literature states that I simply need to copy/paste and rename the updated PDC, not the entry points (this seems to conflict with the instructions for running relink that states I need to relink everything under .\bin\). Along with this, if there are .DAT.ALT files, I understand I also need to update these in addition to the PDC/.DAT file. I assume this means I need the relinked version of this too? What about the .MSI file? It's not technically an "entry point", but nor is it the PDC. Does this have to be relinked and does it need to be updated as part of the in-place upgrade process (ie: copy/paste and renamed to .MSI.1)?

I tested one scenario where I only updated the .DAT file (as .DAT.1) and none of the .DAT.ALT, .MSI or .EXE files. If I run EXE -thinstallversion on one of the entry points, it correctly reports the new version of the runtime, but I honestly don't know if that's the correct approach.

I've built a thinapp of Thunderbird, and it works just fine... appart from one little thing. It won't automatically register as a the default mail reader. Doing the same thing with Firefox sets it as the default browser, so either there's an "option" that the capture process fails to find or there's a bug in handling the registry correctly...

For thunderbird I've added

Protocols=mailto;news;nntp;snews;Thunderbird.Url.mailto;Thunderbird.Url.news

And for firefox this reads

Protocols=FirefoxURL;ftp;http;https

Thunderbird is actually not registered with Windows XP (SP3) at all, so I can't choose it manually either... the files are there, the shortcuts are there, but Windows seem oblivious to the fact that there is any other mail reader there than OutlookExpress.

Any fix? (And I'd rather NOT have to run 3rd party tools or do registry hacks as this is supposed to work with the msi/thinapp :/)

Hi.

I have successfully thinapp Foxit Phantom PDF 8.3. But have some trouble with OCR.

If user run OCR engine (it starts FREngineProcessor.exe) Foxit crashes on exit (see attach).

If user doesn't launch OCR Foxit stops normally.

Did somebody resolve similar problem?

P.S. OS: Windows Server 2012 R2, Thinapp ver.: 5.0 - 5.2.2

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.

Help!  Has anyone successfully packaged these together.  I have tried several different ways and every time I package it together either the browser won't work at all it just hangs, or I get lots of prompts about my java being out of date.  How do I package them together where it will run the webpage I need without any prompts or error messages.

Things I have tried.

1.  Install IE 9 - Run a prescan install java and then run post scan

2.  Run a prescan - Install IE9 and java - and then post scan

3.  Install IE 9 and java then click the Internet Explorer option and then post scan.

Any which way I try it, it won't open on any box or opens and prompts.  Please help.

Thank you.

Tim

Hi.

I have create file associations for few thinapped applications (Adobe Reader, Microsoft Word).

First file is opened as expected. But next time I click on file it start new process of

thinapped application, after few seconds it closes and file opens in existing windows.

It is significantly slows down opening files in thin application.

Is it normal operation? Is there any way to open files in existing window (process) at once?

Hi

I'm working with a click once app that requires you to logon to a webpage first and then have the link on the webpage launch the app. This means I can't open the clickonce app directly, because there is session token that is passed from the website to the click once app. In a last attempt to get this to work with Horizon View application pools I'm trying to put it in a thinapp. The problem is I've captured internet explorer 10 and that works as expected, and I've tried to capture the dot net framework 4.5 as well. When  I launch the click once app , I get a message that "ClickOnce has stopped working" and the event is CLR20r3 and it references dfsvc.exe, System.Drawing, and System.ArgumentException. Has anyone seen something similar?

If I set ChildProcessEnvironmentDefault=External  I don't get that error, but that's because its using the local dot net framework.

Hi all,

We have a Java appled application, with require some local resources an a winword plugin.

All the local resources i have put in a thinapp.

If i open a word document from within the JavaAppled winword will start but my thinapp crashes! (i have a entry point to iexplore.exe on a windows 10 os)

I is use:

VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM=0

ChildProcessEnvironmentExceptions=Winword.EXE

ChildProcessEnvironmentDefault=Virtual

winword starts and no thinapp crash, but no i don't have the word plugin becourse winword start out side the thin environment.

so my question is how to pull winword 2016 in to a thinapp environment.

many thanks

Roger

I am attempting to virtualise Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 x64 to deploy on Windows 10 x64.

I can successfully virtualise this using ThinApp, however when using the virtualised copy on Windows 10, I am unable to download any files and also cannot access the downloads area within Internet Explorer either from the menu or using the CTRL+J keyboard shortcut.

Anybody seen this behaviour before or managed to get downloads working with ThinApp virtualised Internet Explorer?

Thanks

To resolve a compatibility issue with document scanners and a specific application in our existing IE8 ThinApp captured from Windows XP x86, VMWare engineers recommended that we capture IE8 from Windows XP x64.

I have the capture process running fine, pre-scan with the VM running IE6, Install IE8, reboot and post-scan.

The browser will run on Windows 10 x64 without issue. It will not run on Windows 7 x64, and crashes with an error message of "Internet Explorer has stopped working". I have tried running the ThinApp log monitor on the Windows 7 machine, but the crash dump is so large it's hard to parse any data out of it.

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

  Application Name: Internet Explorer.exe

  Application Version: 8.0.6001.18702

  Application Timestamp: 49b3ad2e

  Fault Module Name: AcXtrnal.DLL

  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.19050

  Fault Module Timestamp: 563259ff

  Exception Code: c0000005

  Exception Offset: 00208b00

  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4

  Locale ID: 1033

  Additional Information 1: ed7a

  Additional Information 2: ed7a815ccdb2cd237009551d44474c26

  Additional Information 3: 411b

  Additional Information 4: 411b940008a15b80ac9ae3312ce02dec

Any thoughts/suggestions?

every code base is same .

the application we had uses dll .net 4.0

5.0.1 didnt had this isue .

i upgraded to 5.1 and after  running the application 10 min or earlier it suddently crashes upon clicking any where on the screen.

the same is happening in xp ,win7 or win 8 systems.

this is the eventvwr message i got.

i can see the nt0_dll.dl is the new architecture change in 5.0 and it was stable for us in 5.0.1.

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Fault bucket 74070438858, type 1

Event Name: APPCRASH

Response: Not available

Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:

P1: QNex.exe

P2: 1.0.0.0

P3: 552d7ec8

P4: nt0_dll.dll

P5: 0.0.0.0

P6: 53fda802

P7: c0000005

P8: 0007e8dd

P9:

P10:

Attached files:

C:\Users\vasanth\AppData\Local\Temp\WERAF50.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:

C:\Users\vasanth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_QNex.exe_126b38ddb9b98912e67a4eefecc0f7b8435b1_8ef80678_13032480

Analysis symbol:

Rechecking for solution: 0

Report Id: 755087dd-e2ef-11e4-be7d-ecf4bb7282ff

Report Status: 0

Hashed bucket: 7488119094df0491ba9c84d5f852bc43

Application: Iqor.QorusNex.UserInterface.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 7FE3E8DD

--------------------

Faulting application name: QNex.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x552d7ec8

Faulting module name: nt0_dll.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x53fda802

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x0007e8dd

Faulting process id: 0x1594

Faulting application start time: 0x01d076f9b3e33334

Faulting application path: C:\vasanth\Qnex\QNex4.9\QNex.exe

Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\nt0_dll.dll

Report Id: 755087dd-e2ef-11e4-be7d-ecf4bb7282ff

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

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, I'm sure I have solved this before but I'm not able to find the solution for this now.

I'm trying to run it from network share as FQDN in UNC path, tried both DFS and without DFS, not working. If I copy the package locally it works fine.

Anyone knows what obvious thing I'm missing this time?

Also tried to enable the string SetVirtualModuleFileNameInPeb=1 as that worked for Chrome at some point earlier.

It's packaged with 5.2.2 on same OS it's supposed to be running on.