I have captured the IE6 to IE8 upgrade on a WinXP SP3 VM.
Our base windows client being used is Windows 7 SP1 x64 with IE10.
Before I built the package (.dat with .msi) I followed the KB listed below and copied the IEShims.dll file from C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer from a Win 7 SP1 x64 VM with IE8.
I am publishing the ThinApp via View Manager onto a dedicated desktop. The installation works just fine. I can launch the virtual IE8 when I browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer (VMware ThinApp)\Internet Explorer.exe.
The problem I'm having is that in my native IE10, when I navigate to the website that is redirected, the ThinDirect redirect window comes up, the virtual IE8 launches, but it also opens to the ThinDirect site and then IE8 closes!?
Other issues I have resolved to just get to this point:
1) Enabling the GPO setting for my native IE10 to enable third party browser extensions.
2) I have to manually insert the ThinDirectLauncher64.exe file into the ThinDirect folder C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware ThinApp\ThinDirect (Still have not figured out why the 64.exe is not applying into the ThinDirect package correctly)