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Detection of ThinApp Packages in Non-Domain Environments

The detection of streaming ThinApp packages is intermittent in a non-domain environment. Unless the per-user scan is run at a time that a user is authenticated with the server share, the scan cannot detect the contents of the share.

Typically, the scan runs immediately after logon (in which case it is quite likely the user has not been authenticated with the scalability server yet), and also whenever the full signature scan is run, which may occur only infrequently and may not occur when the user is logged on.

Therefore, CA strongly recommends using Domain/Active Directory environments for streaming ThinApp applications and deploying ThinApp virtual application packages.