Thinapp Group policy for Disable Entry Point Shortcuts does not work

Hi,

We are using Windows 8.1 with 2012 R2 domain controllers in a View 5.3 environment.

I have been trying to implement the new feature in Thinapp 5.1 that provides central management of Thinapp entrypoints/shortcuts.

Link to VMware documentation that I have followed-> ThinApp 5.1 Documentation Center

I have been done the following when trying to implement this:

1. created a Thinapp package with the following inventory name: firefox
2. apppolicy.exe /c firefox (to create a custom adml and admx file to put on the domain controller)
3. change all entries in the template files that has Class=”Machine” with Class = “User” to change the templates to GPO USER policy
4. copied the custom Firefox templates AND baseline templates to .\policydefinitions on primary domain controller
5. create a group policy object
6. linked the group policy object to OU and used security filtering to a specific AD group that should only have some custom firefox shortcuts and not all entrypoints/shortcuts in the Thinapp package

When I logon to the Windows desktop no registry values under HKCU\software is created that is named Thinapp. I also run gpresult /r and verify that my user is applying the correct GPO's.

Does anyone have some experience with this feature and have got this to work?

This is a very nice improvement to avoid having multiple Thinapp packages to get multiple entrypoint configurations..