Prerequisites For Building A Thinapp Application; Including Diagnostic Tools With A Thinapp Application - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

About Controlling Access to ThinApp Applications
Note the following about controlling access to ThinApp applications via Active Directory:
• You must be
ThinApp application.
• Groups must
built.
• If you delete a group and then recreate it, you must
will need to rebuild the ThinApp application in order to authenticate against the "new" group.
• Offline users can authenticate using cached
using cached credentials. Assuming that the user can log into their laptop, ThinApp Active Directory
authentication will still work.
• Sometimes you may need to update credentials
clients until the next Active Directory refresh cycle. To manually refresh the cached group policy credentials,
you can use the
recached.
• "Administrators" and "Everyone" Groups use same
and Everyone have the same SID on every Active Directory domain and Workgroup. Other groups you create
will have a domain-specific SID, meaning a user cannot create their own local group with the same name to
bypass authentication.

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.
Note • For more information, see

Including Diagnostic Tools With a ThinApp Application

On the Diagnostic Tools dialog box, which is opened by selecting Diagnostic Tools in the More Options list on
the General Settings page, you can choose to include the Registry Editor and the Windows Command Prompt
diagnostic tools with your ThinApp application.
If you include diagnostic tools with your ThinApp application, you will be able to look at the registry or file system
for the application while it is running in its virtual environment. For example, if you were running a ThinApp
application and got an error message stating that the application cannot load a DLL, you could use these
diagnostic tools to troubleshoot the problem.
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connected—You must be connected to your Active Directory domain when you build the
exist—The Active Directory groups that you specify must exist when the ThinApp application is
command. Sometimes the user may need to log-off before the credentials are
gpupdate
ThinApp
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rebuild—If you delete a group and recreate it, you
credentials—When users are offline, they can authenticate
manually—Cached credentials may not refresh on
credentials—Special groups like Administrators
on the VMware Web site.
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