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If you capture Microsoft Office and try to access a PDF attachment in the virtual Microsoft Outlook
environment, you can set up Microsoft Office to detect a linked Adobe Reader package on the network
when Adobe Reader is not available within the immediate virtual or physical environment.
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Hot fixes and service packs – Link updates to an application and roll back to a previous version if users
experience significant issues with the new version. You can deploy minor patches to applications as a
single file and reduce the need for rollbacks.
The Application Link utility provides bandwidth savings. For example, if you have Microsoft Office 2007
Service Pack 1 and you want to update to Service Pack 2 without Application Link, you would transfer
1.5Gb of data per computer with the deployment of a new Office 2007 Service Pack 2 package. The
Application Link utility transfers just the updates and not the whole package to the computers.
View of the Application using Application Link
Figure 4‐1 shows the running application with a merged view of the system, the base application, and all
linked components. Files, registry keys, services, COM objects, and environment variables from dependency
packages are visible to the base application.
Figure 4-1. View of the System, Base Application, and Linked Components Using Application Link
System Files
Base Application
Component Package
merged view of
System Files
+ Base Application
+ Component Package
Link a Base Application to the Microsoft .NET Framework
Review this sample workflow to link a base application, MyApp.exe, to a separate package that contains the
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework. Make sure that the base application capture process does not include the
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework. For
"Capturing Applications," on page 15.
For information about required and optional Application Link parameters and formats in the Package.ini
file, see "Configuring Dependent Applications with Application Link" on page 91.
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Local Disk (C:)
Documents and Settings
Program Files
Common Files
ComPlus Applications
Local Disk (C:)
Program Files
Base Application
Local Disk (C:)
Program Files
Component1
Application Link
Local Disk (C:)
Documents and Settings
Program Files
Base Application
Common Files
ComPlus Applications
Component1
information about the process of capturing an application, see Chapter 2,
Chapter 4 Updating and Linking Applications
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