I am still deciding on the best method for deploying ThinApps. Our desktop environment will be fully virtualized so no physical machines are needed to be taken into consideration. One of my requirements is for agentless deployments of my ThinApp packages. With View 4.6 I have been playing with the application repository and creating my ThinApps as MSI. My first test package is of Firefox and since we needed to use the URL redirection feature I had to go with MSI over EXE. I am also using the MSI streaming option. I have created a package repository and am able to scan for MSI files and have been able to assign the packages to desktops or pools. I have also been successful uninstalling a package when removing the MSI from a particular pool or desktop. My question is…..how do you update the MSI package and deploy it to the machines that already have the original MSI package assigned to them within View? If SBmerge is the proper method for updating the application how do I get View to see and deploy the new MSI file?
On a side note the imbedded View repository deployment method seems a bit glitchy, sometimes a packge will hang on install or even uninstall until you refresh the VM. Is this even really a good method at all? I am not opposed to creating EXE packages and using Intergar updates but I still need to try and meet the requirement of agentless package deployments and URL redirection in the case of Firefox.