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Requirements for an application that is captured with ThinApp (1034339)

Last Updated: 6/9/2023Categories: Best PracticesTotal Views: 8784Language:
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Application does not launch as expected.

Application does not perform as expected in a different operating system than the operating system under which it was captured.

Applications dependent on device drivers do not function as expected.

Antivirus, anti-malware, and personal firewalls do not perform as expected.

Printer drivers are not performing as expected.

VPN clients are not performing as expected.

Solution

ThinApp is a powerful application tool which allows you to isolate applications from the operating system, simplify your application customization, deploy applications to different operating systems than the one you originally ran it on, and eliminate application conflicts. There are, however, some applications that ThinApp cannot virtualize.

These include:

Printer drivers

Scanner drivers

Disk mounting and manipulation utilities

Volume mounting and manipulation utilities

Applications which do not physically install on the deployment operating system

If your application is designed for Windows XP and is not compatible with Windows 7, then it is not a suitable ThinApp deployment platform for that application.

Applications which require installation of kernel mode device drivers

This includes applications such as VPN clients, which in most cases add a virtual network adapter to handle the network traffic between your local machine and the private network that you are connecting to.

Note: ODBC drivers function correctly because they are user mode drivers.

Antivirus solutions and personal firewalls

These applications will not function properly because ThinApp utilizes application isolation, and a scan on what would be perceived to be the physical system would realistically be limited to the application sandbox created when the application was captured. Proper functionality is also impeded by this type of software's reliance on device drivers, which cannot be virtualized by ThinApp.

Applications which integrate with the Windows Shell

These applications may experience reduced functionality because they are unable to add context related entries to the Windows Explorer context menus.

Applications which utilize Distributed Component Object Model transactions via the network

ThinApp isolates COM and DCOM objects, and the COM objects accessible within an application that has been captured with ThinApp are available only to other captured applications in that application sandbox. You cannot access DCOM objects across a network.

Page last reviewed: May 2023
Next review due: November 2023

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