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The following table lists the application features which require additional, manual conversion steps:
Table 9-154 • Application Features Ignored During Profile Conversion
Windows Installer
Feature
User-Defined Custom
Actions
Services
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Chapter 9: Converting Windows Installer Packages to Virtual Applications
Manual Conversion Steps
When converting a Windows Installer package to a Citrix profile, all custom
actions are ignored. For user-defined custom actions, a warning message is
generated. Any modifications to a target machine that a custom action in this
Windows Installer package may create will not be propagated into the Citrix
profile.
The resolution that you should perform depends upon the purpose of the custom
action:
•
If the custom action merely automatically enters a value or makes some
other kind of minor modification, you can ignore this warning.
•
If the custom action does something which could change the behavior of the
installation (such as setting a Property), you may need to resolve this issue.
To resolve this issue, first attempt to launch the converted package on Citrix
XenApp. If you receive any application errors, you need to repackage this
application, by performing the following steps.
To successfully convert a package with user-defined custom actions:
1. Use the Repackaging Wizard to repackage this application.The Repackaging
Wizard monitors system changes as an application is installed, and then that
data is converted into a Repackager project.
2. Build the Repackager project to generate a revised Windows Installer
package. This new Windows Installer package does not contain any custom
actions, but (as a result of being repackaged) it will include the functionality
performed by the original custom action.
Citrix XenApp does not support any type of services. Therefore, to resolve this
issue, you need to install any required services outside of the isolation
environment on the user desktop machines.
To successfully convert a package with services:
1. If you have an application and a service bundled in the same Windows
Installer package, you need to create a separate Windows Installer package
containing just the service.
2. Install the service on each of the user desktop machines. The Citrix profile of
this application should now be able to run in an isolation environment on
machines that already have the service installed.
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