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Recommendations

Integrate the delivery of packages, which can be large .exe or .msi ﬁles, with your existing organizational

process. An existing process, such as Active Directory publishing via Group Policy, will have an already

established support structure and administration workﬂow. You can use Group Policy to deploy software to

groups, OU’s, or individuals. See the following KB article for details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324750

Benefits

Once the application package is delivered, application performance and availability is not subject to network or

storage dependencies.

Application Registration

The process of application registration integrates the virtualized application packages with the desktop

operating system. The process of registering applications will take into account the access control mechanisms

that allow administrators to restrict usage to speciﬁed Active Directory groups providing end users role-based

access to virtualized applications. Application registration is not mandatory, ThinApp packages will launch

and execute without registration. However, end users and administrators can beneﬁt from the integration of

virtualized applications into the desktop because of the following:

• Creation of Windows Shortcuts on the Start Menu and Desktop for the applications

• Creation of File Type Associations, Protocols, and Object Types to launch virtualized applications

• Creation of Application Entries in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel applet

VMware ThinApp allows IT organizations to determine whether to use streaming or deployed execution mode

or to adopt a hybrid approach that lets them manage a standard set of applications centrally while distributing

others in deployed mode. The same virtualized application packages can be used for either execution mode.

The application registration process performs the exact same function whether packages are local or remote.

As described later, MSI packages use ThinReg to automatically perform application registration with the MSI

installer. So the application registration entries are consistent regardless of the means use to perform the actual

registration or where the package resides.

Registration of virtualized applications to end users creates shortcuts on the desktop, ﬁle-type, protocol, and

object type associations, and entries in the Add/Remove programs applet of the Control Panel. The Thinreg.exe

tool is a simple utility, which automates the registration process and can be run from any scripting mechanism

or command prompt. The ThinReg.exe can be local to the operating system, on a remote share. An example

would be placing the ThinReg tool in the netlogon share and calling it from a login script. Administrators can

run ThinReg against an entire directory of ThinApp packages by using an asterisk (*) as a wildcard character.

Role-Based Access to Applications

Since the registration process can enumerate which users have access to application packages, the process can

be run against an entire directory of application packages; however, it only registers the applications to which

the user is entitled. Administrators can use pre-made scripts that run based on group membership to only

using Active Directory are described brieﬂy below.

Script-based Registration

Implementation of the Thinreg executable can be incorporated into an existing login script with standard

methods such as .bat, WSH, KIX, or vbScript. See example below:

%logonserver%\netlogon\thinreg.exe /Q \\company.com\applications\*.exe

Local Script via Registry Run Key or Active Directory GPO managed Login and Logout Script

IT organizations can choose to implement the application registration process locally on the workstations

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