Appsync Settings Dialog Box - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

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Example
plugins\*.exe
n:\plugins\*.exe
%PLUGINS%\*.exe
plugin1.exe;plugin2.exe;plugins\*.exe

AppSync Settings Dialog Box

Note • The AppSync Settings feature requires ThinApp 4.x If you are using Thinstall 3.x, any AppSync settings that
you define will be ignored.
AppSync (Application Sync) enables you to automatically keep deployed virtual applications up to date. When an
application starts up, AppSync can query a Web server to see if an updated version of the package is available. If
an update is available, the differences between the existing package and the new package will be downloaded and
used to construct an updated version of the package. The updated package will be used for future deployments.
You can use the AppSync feature to perform the following tasks:
•
Distribute runtime components
separately from the applications that use them. For example, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or ODBC
drivers.
•
Apply layered service packs to
your applications. Application Sync enables you to distribute service packs and roll back to previous versions,
if necessary.
On the AppSync Settings dialog box, which is opened by clicking AppSync Settings on the More Options
menu of the Build Options page, you can configure AppSync settings for your ThinApp application.
On the Expiration tab, you can specify that the ThinApp application is required to check for updates at a defined
frequency. If the ThinApp application fails to successfully check for updates within that defined frequency, it will fail
to run. Note that the update does not expire, the ThinApp application expires, and cannot be used until it is
updated. successfully.
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separately—You can use AppSync to distribute runtime components
applications—You can use AppSync to apply layered service packs to
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Description
This will import all executables located in the
directory.
Important • If any executable fails to import because it is not a
proper ThinApp package or because of a security issue, the parent
executable will fail to load.
This will import all EXEs located at the absolute path
.
n:\plugins
This expands the environment variable,
imports all executables found at this location.
This loads two specified plugins and a list of executables
found in the subdirectory.
plugins
Creating ThinApp Applications
plugins
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