Benefits Of Deploying Thinapp Applications; Prerequisites For Building A Thinapp Application; About Citrix Virtual Packages - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Benefits of Deploying ThinApp Applications

Deploying ThinApp applications provides the following benefits:
• Reduces time to deployment and costs associated with
run in independent sandboxes, eliminating the need for expensive and time-consuming multi-application
regression testing. This reduces the time to deployment and the costs associated with testing.
•
Fast, lightweight virtualization
at full speed.
•
Reduces the cost of maintaining secure locked-down
restricted user accounts without requiring any host modifications.
•
Enhances work-force mobility, business continuity and disaster
be run off-line, directly from any external media including USB Flash, CD-ROM, and off-line laptops.
• No infrastructure changes
deployment systems including Active Directory and SMS. ThinApp has no client or server components to
manage or maintain and ThinApp can transparently stream large applications from any network attached
storage devices without server software.
•
Sandboxing prevents
system and registry to a private per-user sandbox. Sandboxes can be located on a network share, allowing
application settings to follow users as they move from machine to machine. For mobile users, sandboxes can
be stored on local USB flash drives, thus preventing damage to the host computer or accidental host storage
of sensitive data.

Prerequisites for Building a ThinApp Application

AdminStudio will convert the package installation into a format compatible with ThinApp. However, the ThinApp
build process requires the availability of certain ThinApp tools.
As a prerequisite to building a ThinApp application from AdminStudio, you must have installed ThinApp and
accepted any and all license agreements.
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About Citrix Virtual Packages

You can use the Windows Installer Converter to convert a Windows Installer package to a Citrix profile for
deployment on Citrix XenApp.
Information about using the Windows Installer Converter is presented in the following topics:
•
About Citrix XenApp and Citrix Profiles
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needed—ThinApp applications can be deployed using any existing software
modifications—ThinApp redirects all changes intended for the host computer's file
If you install ThinApp but you have not yet accepted the license agreement, the build process will fail.
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—ThinApp does not use emulation, so all processes are executed natively
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testing—Applications can be deployed and
desktops—ThinApp applications can run in
recovery—ThinApp applications can
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