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ThinApp Acrobat can't see my scanner

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Does anyone know what to do if ThinApp applications can access USB devices?  I have thinapped Acrobat XI without any issue.  I installed the scanner driver natively on the host machine and virtual desktop.  The scanner is being seen as a scanner.  It is showing properly in device manager.  Then I opened ThinApp Acrobat XI, tried to use the scanner.  Acrobat XI says my scanner can't be found.


So, I wondered if it has anything to do with ThinApp and decided to install Acrobat XI natively on the virtual desktop.  Ta-Da! The native installed Acrobat XI can see the scanner.


I have to make sure my thinapp Acrobat can access the scanner.  Is there a fix / solution for that?  Thanks!

 

I packaged Acrobat in Win7 32bit, deployed to Win7 64bit


Thinapp compatibility with XP and Win7

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I recently Thinapp an application (iStream) that needs to be available on both XP and Win7 platforms.  I followed all the best practices for creating a Thinapp on a base XP machine.  Using 4.7.3

 

The app runs perfectly in XP, but there is one component in Win7 that does not function.  It's not the function that I would have anticipated.

 

The iStream app has a tool called InfoConnector.  When this app is launched, it looks for a configuration file in

 

c:\program files\oracle\istream\components\shared\local.idb

 

My Thinapp has the file in the correct location within the project %ProgramFilesDir%\oracle\istream\components\shared\local.idb. Isolation mode set to Full (also tried WriteCopy)

 

 

When I run the InfoConnector on Win7, it cannot find  the above referenced file. It appears like it's trying to resolve to c:\program files (x86)\.......

 

 

 

 

 

Any assistance would be appreciated.

ThinApp Factory 404 problems due to Single Sign-On?

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Like a lot of people I'm having 404 issues when trying to add a workpool for ThinApp Factory in my company's vCenter.  I'm starting to wonder if my problem is due to vCenter 5.1 and Single-Sign On.  Is anyone out there using Factory with 5.1?

 

I've reviewed these articles and haven't found anything to help:

 

https://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2012/06/step-by-step-setup-of-thinapp-factory-in-vsphere-using-the-executable.html

https://vstorage.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/thinapp-factory-fixing-adding-workpool-error/

https://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2012/06/http-404-and-500-errors-when-adding-work-pools.html

 

I'm not using domain\username.

I've tried several different accounts including the service account and other vcenter administrator accounts.

The Factory VM is not an a DVswitch.

I haven't moved Factory since installing the appliance.

I'm using fully qualified domain names

OnFirstParentStart WMI/GetObject Error

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Hi folks.

 

I'm having some issues when running a particular line of code in a ThinApp VBS.

The code works for me fine on its own, but not inside a ThinApp package.

 

I was curious if it may be some ThinApp settingfor the package, as it appears that others do not have a problem with this.

 

You can see some sample code here which does not work for me:

http://www.horizonflux.com/thinapp-scripting-launch-virtual-application-only-if-a-specific-process-is-not-running/

 

 

The particular error is:

Error Line 21, Char 1: Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Source: Microsoft VBScript Runtime Error
Description: Object Required: ‘objWMIService’

 

As I said, the code works fine on it's own outside of a ThinApp application, and since this is being published on other sites I assume it works correctly inside ThinApp applications for other people.

 

Any help you can give would be appreciated!!

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

The package.ini is as follows for this app:

 

 

[Compression]
CompressionType=None
[Isolation]
DirectoryIsolationMode=Merged
[BuildOptions]
;-------- MSI Parameters ----------
;Enable MSIFilename if you want to generate a Windows Installer package.
;MSIFilename=Arena301.msi
;MSIManufacturer=Unknown
;MSIProductVersion=1.0
;MSIDefaultInstallAllUsers=1
;MSIRequireElevatedPrivileges=1
;MSIInstallDirectory=Arena301 (VMware ThinApp)
;MSIProductCode={9CB35312-287A-DF71-B51D-27AAF49B8EEE}
;MSIUpgradeCode={C65B8CD8-A8FF-1CC5-1420-9F8E3BC68BCF}
;MSIStreaming=0
;MSICompressionType=Fast
;MSIArpProductIcon=%AppData%\Microsoft\Installer\{7CCBDAB6-9F93-4C2C-BF01-1D40A3335180}\ARPPRODUCTICON.exe
;-------- AppSync Parameters ----------
;AppSyncUpdateFrequency=1d
;AppSyncExpirePeriod=30d
;AppSyncWarningPeriod=5d
;AppSyncWarningFrequency=1d
;AppSyncWarningMessage=This application will become unavailable for use in %remaining_days% day(s) if it cannot contact its update server. Check your network connection to ensure uninterrupted service.
;AppSyncExpireMessage=This application has been unable to contact its update server for %expire_days% day(s), so it is unavailable for use. Check your network connection and try again.
;AppSyncUpdatedMessage=
;AppSyncClearSandboxOnUpdate=0
;-------- Parameters used only during Setup Capture  ----------
AccessDeniedMsg=You are not currently authorized to run this application. Please contact your administrator.
CapturedUsingVersion=4.7.2-771812
OutDir=bin
;-------- General Purpose Parameters  ----------
SandboxName=Arena301
InventoryName=Arena301
InventoryIcon=%AppData%\Microsoft\Installer\{7CCBDAB6-9F93-4C2C-BF01-1D40A3335180}\ARPPRODUCTICON.exe
;PermittedGroups=Administrators;Remote Desktop Users
;RemoveSandboxOnExit=1
;RemoveSandboxOnStart=1
;SandboxNetworkDrives=1
;SandboxRemovableDisk=1
;VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM=0
;OptionalAppLinks=plugins\*.exe
;RequiredAppLinks=\\server\share\*.exe;c:\abs\path\file.exe
VirtualDrives=Drive=c, Serial=58e2f0af, Type=FIXED
;VirtualDrives=Drive=a, Serial=0012d294, Type=REMOVABLE; Drive=c, Serial=58e2f0af, Type=FIXED; Drive=d, Serial=58e2f0af, Type=CDROM
;VirtualComputerName=WIN-TRK2TDBBJEU
AnsiCodePage=1252
LocaleIdentifier=1033
LocaleName=en-US
; If you have problems running a 32 bit application under 64 bit Windows, try enabling this line before building the project
;Wow64=0
; Enable this option to load .Net binaries from the system instead of the package on Windows 7
;LoadDotNetFromSystem=Win7
QualityReportingEnabled=0
; Enable this option to ignore DDE messages from external processes
;IgnoreDDEMessages=1

 

Excel, Visio y Project issue with licensing

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Hello

 

I have a problem with the licensing of the MAK license on the excel 2010, visio 2010 and project 2010 (SP1) when I try to use this applications in a desktop with the office 2010 standard installed.

 

The screenshot of the issue is the next:

 

 

error thinapp.png

 

I use windows 7 professional (32 bits) for ThinApp machine with the version 4.7.3 and the desktops have the same operating system.

 

I have tested some links and webs like this http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2013/02/thinapp-microsoft-visio-and-project-2010-while-locally-installed-microsoft-office-2010.html without  I resolve the problem

 

Thanks

Problem Thinapp Sccm 2012 Admin Console

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Hi,

 

 

I'm trying to Thinapp SCCM 2012 Admin Console.

It runs fine, except when I try using the Remote Control (Device, Start, Remote Desktop)

It then start a couple of mstc.exe and the CPU goes bezerk.

 

My procedure is:

 

Windows XP vanilla ThinApp VM

Start ThinApp enterprise

Install .Net Framework

Install Sccm (adminconsole.exe)

In the entry points I select:

 

Config Manager Console

mstsc

PresentationHost

RemoteControlViewer

TSWBProxy

wksprt

 

I make a .msi with a DAT.

 

 

Any ideas?

Issue with IE8 and some .asp pages

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Hello, I'm having some issues with ThinApp IE8. I have a capture that was done in 32-bit XP. I followed the walk-through on the KB article for the capture. It is working great, except a minor but important detail. In some of the frames on the page that I'm loading, the horizontal scroll bars are not visible. Things work great otherwise. The web-app that I'm targeting via URL with ThinDirect are .asps pages. If I load them in the native IE9 application, I'm able to see the scroll bars. When running the IE8 ThinApp, the scroll bars are not visible. I'm running this ThinApp in Win 7 x64. Has anyone seen an issue like this in ThinApp IE8? Are there possibly any adjustments that I could make in the capture process?

 

Thanks for any help.

Scanning with ThinApps

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I work in a clinical environment, and one of the applications we are ThinApp'ing will be utilized by persons performing registration, and  will require for documents to be scanned into the application from ADF scanners.

 

Initial attempts to have the ThinApp'd app scan have proven unfruitful. The application seems to be able to see the scanner. When I click on the menu that lets me choose a scanner,  it is listed in the dropdown list correctly. However, when I actually  attempt to scan, the application gives an error message stating that it  cannot communicate with the scanner. My suspicions are that the scanner  isn't able to communicate back with the process from the app that is  initializing the scan, since the app is in the virtual environment, and  the scanner is not. The message generated also includes references to the scanner model.

 

Here  are some methods I've attempted in order to get this going. I'll admit,  I'm definitely not a guru when it comes to reading out logmon reports, so I may be going the wrong direction with this.

 

  • ChildProcessEnvironementDefault=External to force Child processes to load in the physical environment
  • AllowExternalProcessModifications=1
  • ExternalDLLs= listing all of the dll's it seems the application uses to scan

 

Does  anyone have any insight on what would be needed to get this application to scan? I do realize that virtualizing the twain drivers is not possible, but I didn't know if that meant that working with twain scanners from within a ThinApp was impossible as well.

 

Any feedback or direction would be appreciated.


Virtualized Version of Acrobat Reader X print square instead of char

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Hi

 

We have a virtualized version of Adobe Reader X.

 

On some PC when we print a document we obtain a sheet with little square instead character (as in attached image). If I install Adobe Reader X on PC all works good.

IMG_20130509_135235_159.jpg

A workaround is to set "print as image" in printer options, but it's impossible to set this option inside the ThinApp because Adobe Reader insert a registry entry for each printer configurated on the system.

 

 

 

isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\General\cPrintAsImage

  Value=t0

  REG_SZ~Xerox WorkCentre 245 East on itmi1fp2#2323:4#2300

 

Any idea?

 

tnks

File association not passing file to thinapp package

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I am new to thinapp so maybe I'm missing something simple.  I have built a thinapp package for Crystal Reports and copied it over to Win7 pc and run 

Thinreg.exe /a /q /r "C:\Program Files (x86)\Thinapp\CrystalReports10\Crystal Reports 10.exe" to register. 
When I double click on a .rpt file it opens crystal inside the thinapp package but does not open the file itself.  However if Crystal is installed locally and I run the Thinreg it then opens the file inside the package just as it should but uninstalling the local version of Crystal goes back to the state of opening the app but not the file inside the thinapp package.
Not sure what info you would need to determine what I might be missing but VMware thinapp ver 4.7, Win7 enterprise 64 bit, Crystal Reports 10. packaged from a Win7 64bit OS machine, running on same.
Any more info I'm happy to provide but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Office 2010 - AppSync doesn't update Powepoint.exe file

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Hi,

 

we have a virtualized version of Microsoft Office 2010.


We have 4 file in bin folder: Office 2010.dat, vMicrosoft Excel 2010.exe, vMicrosoft Word 2010.exe, vMicrosoft Powerpoint 2010.exe. The dat file is the primary container. All was good with AppSync until the last rebuild.

Launching one of the three application with a new version on AppSync https server all of the file was updated.

 

The sources of exe file are not the microsoft executable but three executable we created with autoit to start OPSSVC services on firstsandboxowner (due to a problem on customer machine).

 

In last rebuild we have changed all of these three exe (we had also done this operation before).

 

Now when we launch appsync Office 2010.ase, vMicrosoft Word.ase and vMicrosoft Excel 2010.ase are created, but vMicrosoft Powerpoint.ase is not created and the application is automatically close.

 

For example:

 

- Version 1.0 on client

- Version 1.1 on AppSync Server

 

Launching vMicrosoft Excel 2010.exe AppSync start to download the update.

 

Office 2010.ase is created,  vMicrosoft Word.ase and vMicrosoft Excel 2010.ase are created too and then vMicrosoft Excel 2010.exe close itself.

 

Relaunching vMicrosoft Excel 2010.exe it doesn't start until I delete all of the ase file.

 

If I use SDK to force the AppSync update all works fine.

 

Have you got any suggestion on where look for the problems?

 

Thanks

Referenced Memory Error wher running a ThinApp

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Hi,

 

running a thinapp on certain customer PC (Win XP SP3) we facing whith this error:

 

Popup dell'applicazione: dwwin.exe - Errore di applicazione : L'istruzione a "0x000404ac" ha fatto riferimento alla memoria a "0x000404ac". La memoria non poteva essere "written".

Fare clic su OK per terminare l'applicazione

Fare clic su Annulla per eseguire il debug dell'applicazione

Per ulteriori informazioni, consultare la Guida in linea e supporto tecnico all'indirizzo http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

Translated:

Application popup: dwwin.exe - Application Error: The instruction at "0x000404ac" referenced memory at "0x000404ac." The memory could not be "written".

Click OK to terminate the application

Click Cancel to debug the application

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

Not all the thinapp present this error. We have delpoyed Google Chrome, MS Office, Adobe Reader, IE8 and a customer self producede application and only running the last two this error appear.

 

It's only a little number of PCs that present this error (about 3-4 on hundreds installation), and I think it's a windows problem, but I'd like to know if we can do something to solve this kind of error.

 

I've tried to run thinapp Log Monitor, but also this programs fails with same error.

 

Thanks

Outlook problem with word documents

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Hello

 

We have outlook and word virtualized with thinapp and we have a problem with the word documents includes in a mail when I see with Outlook. We can download the word document and preview in outlook, but when we double click in the word document attached in the mail, we can´t open the document. In contrast, for xls, pdf... files we don,t have this problem.

 

Also we havea messageinOutlookthat says "WindosDesktop Searchisnot available"but weadded the entryin the creation ofthe application:


isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\Preferences

Value=PreventIndexingOutlook

REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00

 

Thanks

Thinapping Word 2007

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Hi

 

I am trying to Thinapp Word 2007 - because the Thinapp need to run on PC that have another version of Word on already I have built a package and put all the file systems and registry in Full Isolation Mode - now when I try to run the package all I get is the following message "this package is not configured to Run on This Operating System"

 

Help please

 

Many thanks

 

Best Regards

 

 

 

Pat

Error occurred or operation aborted

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Hello,

 

When I run ThinApp Setuo Catpure and start a scan I get this error :

 

"Error orccurred or operation aborted

c:\users\admini~1\AppData\Local\temp\{07543534......}.snapshot dows not exist"

 

I tried to uninstall the application and with another user but still the same error.

I use the last version of thinApp.

 

Thanks in advance.


Thinapp vcenter client

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Hi,

 

I have thinapped the vcenter client.

 

I piushed it in a view pool.

 

On some desktops, it runs fine.

On others, it says the .NET Framework is not installed.

 

The desktops are all completely new from the same snapshot.

Any ideas??

IE8 ThinApp - Apply Microsoft Patch KB2847204

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Hi,

 

recently MS released a security patch for IE8 (KB2847204). Customare asked me to apply this patch to the thinapped version of IE8, but I can't see any other way to apply the patch than recapture IE8 (or start from the snapshot I've catpured) applying the patch.

 

I've tried using sbmerge launching the patch from a CMD prompt builded with IE but I got lot of errors.

 

Any Idea?

 

tnks.

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit -- blocking ThinApp from opening native MS Office

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We have SAPGUI thinapp'd and has been working great until we installed Microsoft's EMET.  If an end user attempts to open a MS Office attachment in the SAPGUI thinapp, it generates the following errors:

      1. Winword.exe : Fatal Application Exit " Thinapp has encountered an unexpected error.  Click Abort to close application, Retry to debug or Continue to ignore error. Support info PID=448, new_Sections.cpp@274
        1. C:\users\ntuserid\documents\xxxx:   "There was a problem sending the command to the program".

If i disabled Mandatory SLR within EMET for the Office applications, then the attachments open fine.

 

It appears that EMET is blocking the way ThinApp is trying to access MS Office on the host.

 

Has anyone seen this before or know how ThinApp calls on MS Office ?   Perhaps if I can better understand how Thinapp calls MS Office then I can approach Microsoft support on this.

 

Thanks

Paul

Size limit of .dat file?

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Dear VM-Community,

 

I'm trying since days to Thinapp Office 2010 following the steps from this guide:

http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2010/08/step-by-step-instructions-on-how-to-thinapp-office-2010.html

 

Well, I created a .msi file for installation with a seperat .dat file as data container. The .dat file is over 3 GB huge. The installation is successful under Windows XP, under Windows 7 (x86), the installation crashes with the following error message:

Error: 1310. Error attempting to create the destination file: C:\Program Files (x86)\office_2010std (VMware ThinApp)\office_2010std.dat System error code: 131

 

I thinapped Office 2010 with ThinApp version 5/6, under XP / Win 7, but the result was everytime the same. I'm suspecting that the .dat file is way to big for the installation. Could this be true? If yes, what can I do? Compression is already turned on.

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Best wishes,

Stephan Berger

Office 2003 with VBA

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Im trying to create a Office 2003 thinapp-package.

I have an excelsheet with some macros.

 

When trying to execute a macro, the following message appears.

 

"Could not initialize Visual Basic for Applications (1004)".

 

 

-Windows7

-Office 2003 SP3

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