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Chapter 9: Converting Windows Installer Packages to Virtual Applications

About Citrix Virtual Packages

Benefits of Deploying Citrix Profiles

You can also convert a Windows Installer package to a Citrix profile using InstallShield Editor's Citrix

Assistant. Using the Citrix Assistant, you can configure a Citrix profile's operating system and language

requirements, files, folders, shortcuts, registry settings, script execution, isolation options, and build options. See

Getting Started With Application Virtualization

For information on how to simultaneously build an InstallShield Editor project, a Windows Installer package,

and a Citrix profile from your Repackager project, see

Repackager Project

About Citrix XenApp and Citrix Profiles

Citrix XenApp is an application delivery system for Windows applications. When you use Repackager or

InstallShield Editor to prepare a Windows Installer package for deployment on Citrix XenApp, the resources you

generate are called profiles.

Overview information about Citrix XenApp and Citrix profiles is presented in the following topics:

Table 9-6 • Overview of Citrix XenApp

About Citrix XenApp

About Citrix Profiles (.profile)

About Citrix XenApp

Citrix XenApp is an application delivery system for Windows applications that offers both application virtualization

and application streaming. Applications are centralized on Citrix XenApp and then those applications are deployed

to users throughout the enterprise. These deployed applications run within isolation environments that prevent

them from interfering with other software running on the same machine.

Provides an overview of how Citrix XenApp works and provides a

diagram illustrating application delivery.

Lists the files and directories that comprise a Citrix profile.

and the InstallShield Help Library for information on the Citrix Assistant.

Automatically Generating a Virtual Application During

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