[THIN] Re: specialized streaming apps setup question
- From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:29:56 +0100
Tried to mail you at your Gmail acct to assist.
----- Original Message -----
From: TSguy92 Lan
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:38 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: specialized streaming apps setup question
Unfortunately I have no other app packaging suites available to me at this
time. If it's not too costly, we'll certainly look into it.
Thx,
Lan
On 10/3/07, M <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello there,
Do you use Wise Package studio at all ?
If so, you can easily capture registry settings with a lovely little util
called wisecomcapture.
I use this myself to capture registry settings for dlls/ ocxs that need
registering in my own msi files and packages.
Works a treat.
----- Original Message -----
From: TSguy92 Lan
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: [THIN] specialized streaming apps setup question
I've been struggling to get some of our more specialized application
installs functioning under the streaming app profiler and after trying several
tricks I'm close to giving up hope on streaming them :( so I figured I'd see if
anyone else may have some insight.
In particular the problems I'm having with the profiling of 2 of our apps
are:
- one of our vendor installs requires a reboot after which it registers
a slew of Dll's.
- the virtual reboot option is nice, but the dll registrations from
the setup application after the virtual reboot fail.
- I'd tried a variety of tricks I can think of to register the failed
DLLS within the app profile, but all attempts to call out regsvr32 appear to be
local machine call outs only, and don't work within the virtual app profile
space.
- other dos commands such as xcopy, and MD, from CMD scripts DO
affect the virtual app profile space, and will dutifully adjust files and
folders there, as opposed to the local profiler machine host.
- If I make a directory on my machine used for profiling and put all
the DLLS there, then regsvr32 works, but of course, it doesn't affect the app
profile. :(
- I'm currently recording all registry adjustments made by doing a
Regsvr32 "dllname" on another system with regmon, but manually creating all of
these adjustments to the app profile will be a major pain. If that's what it
takes . .so be it . .but ugh...
My other app issue with creating a profile is due to an app that requires
a specialized COM component to be manually created and adjusted.
- I've run into pretty much the same issues here as with the DLL
registration process. Attempting to import an "exported" COM component from a
correctly setup system won't import into the virtual app profile.
- attempting to run the COM configuration app from within the app
profile wizards only ever makes these COM adjustments to the local machine, not
the app profile.
So far I believe my options are down to either trying to recreate all
registry and file system adjustments these apps may require by hand within the
virtual app profile, or giving up the ghost all together on attempts to stream
them. The sad part is that both of these tricky little app installs are
required to be running within the same memory space as our Core production
apps, which I can profile and stream with absolutely no issues.
Thoughts / suggestions much appreciated
TIA
Lan
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