Omnissa ThinApp Release Notes

What's in the Release Notes

Omnissa ThinApp 5.2.2 is a maintenance release and includes a few enhancements, resolved issues, and known issues.

What's New

The ThinApp 5.2.2 release introduces the following new features:

• Support for Windows 10 Anniversary Update
• Experimental support for Windows Server 2016

Resolved Issues

The ThinApp 5.2.2 release resolves the following issues:

• ThinApp applications take twice as long to open in Windows 10
  ThinApp applications take twice as long to open in Windows 10 than in Windows 7 operating system.

• The Omnissa Access desktop client fails to start ThinApp on Windows 8 and Windows 10 The Omnissa Access desktop client fails to start ThinApp on Windows 8 and Windows 10.

• UnityXL application fails with an error
  In ThinApp 5.2.1, the UnityXL application fails with the following error: The UnityPro Hardware Catalog is not available on the computer.

• Performance degrade of Internet Explorer 8
  In ThinApp 5.2, the performance of Internet Explorer 8 degrades. The Web pages are not accessible from Internet Explorer 8.

• Microsoft patches KB3126593 and KB3126587 interfere with Firefox user profile creation
  After you apply the Microsoft patches KB3126593 and KB3126587, creating a user profile on Firefox fails.

• Internet Explorer 10 fails on 64-bit versions of Windows 10
  ThinApp fails with an error on Internet Explorer 10 that runs on a 64-bit versions of Windows 10.

• SDK returns an error when reading subkeys from a ThinApp package
  When you use the ThinApp SDK to read registry subkeys from a ThinApp package, the SDK returns an error if one of the subkeys is longer than 97 characters.

• Setup Capture treats all ThinApp captures as Internet Explorer captures
  When you capture a ThinApp package on Windows 7 or above with Internet Explorer 10 or 11 natively installed, Setup Capture treats all ThinApp captures as Internet Explorer captures.

Known Issues

The following are the known issues:

• Unable to insert Office objects in certain Microsoft Office applications like Excel charts in Excel, Word document in Word, PowerPoint, and so on.

  Workaround: None.

• Internet Explorer 11 fails to start on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

  Workaround: None.

• Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is not supported on Windows.

  Workaround: None.

• Internet Explorer 6.0 fails to open some specific URLs.

  Workaround : Add the following parameters to Package.ini and rebuild the package:

     [BuildOptions]  
     NotificationDLLs=T2embed.dll
  

• If Protected View is enabled in Microsoft Excel 2013, it will fail to open files from a network share.

  Workaround : Disable protected view from File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View > Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations.

• Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 fail to launch when deployed to a system with Microsoft Office natively installed.

• Unable to launch Google Chrome from a network share.

  Workaround : Add SetVirtualModuleFileNameInPeb=1 to Package.ini and rebuild the package.

• Microsoft Visio 2010 help files are not displayed on 64-bit versions of Windows.

• 32-bit Internet Explorer 10 does not work on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8.1.

  Workaround: None.

• ThinApp does not support any 16-bit applications on Windows 8 machines.

• If you attempt to start two instances of Microsoft Word 2013 or Microsoft Power Point 2013, these applications will become unresponsive.

  Workaround: None.

• ThinApp fails to build packages on the 32-bit versions of Windows 7 if you change the Outdir parameter in the Package.ini and replace it with any of the following language characters:

  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean

  Workaround: None.

• ThinApp cannot change registry key names on 32-bit versions of Windows.

  Workaround: None.

• When you start AutoCAD on 64-bit versions of Windows 7, the following error message is displayed: PresentationFontCache.exe - Application Error

  Workaround: None.

• Visual Studio 2010 displays the following error message: Invalid license data. Reinstall is required on launch.
  

  Workaround: None.

• Unable to open Web pages using Internet Explorer 8 or later versions on Windows 10.
  Workaround : Apply the workaround provided in KB article 2137873.

• When you mark a Web site as favorite in Internet Explorer browser, you cannot immediately view it in the Favorites Bar.

  Workaround : If needed, create ##Attributes.ini file in the %Common Favorites% folder with the following content and rebuild the package:

     [Isolation]
     DirectoryIsolationMode=WriteCopy
  

• A Fatal Application Exit error occurs when you launch 64-bit versions of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 or Microsoft Word 2010 on Windows 10.

  Workaround : Add the ChildProcessEnvironmentException=msiexec.exe in Package.ini and build the project.

• A COMDLG32.dll error appears when applications are run from a network share.

  Workaround : Add ProcessExternalNameBehavior=Original and SetVirtualModuleFileNameInPeb=1 to the General Parameters section of the Package.ini and rebuild the package.