AppBot is a tool created to transform Citrix Streaming Applications to Microsoft App-V 5. Additionally, the application creates Microsoft installer files for every application. This way, you can decide if you would like to install an MSI for your old Streaming Profiler application (sccm, matrix 42 or so) or an App-V 5 package. Demovideo:
The originally installed platform can be transformed as well. For example, a Streaming Profiler application of Windows Server 2003 may be adapted to Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. If you select Windows XP and Server 2003 in the Streaming Profiler, the complete file system as well as all registry keys and shortcuts are rewritten. App-V is able to find every file and DLL in its new location. Every installation is redirected to “\%programFiles\NICK-IT\<Applicationname>” per default. You may change these settings to “<YOURCOMPANYNAME>\<Applicationname>”.
The development of this version is completed and successfully tested with Streaming Profiler 6.0 (older versions might not function correctly).
Features
Automatic conversion of Citrix Application Streaming (Profiler) Packages to App-V 5
Automatic detection of .profile-settings by the package (works in 9/10 packages)
Obtain a MSI file for every Streaming Profiler (can be advantageous for the system administrator)
Convert Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 packages to Windows Server 2008 and 2012
Convert your 16 bit installer packages to 32 bit applications (KeyTerm)
Redirect packages to a new installation location
Select individual shortcuts
Solve profile virtualization problems
Get all icons of an application from the Citrix Icon.bin file. These icons can be used for publishing the application with XenApp.
AppBot is tested on and with
Streaming Profiler 6.x
Streaming packages for Windows XP (32 bit german), Windows 7 (32 bit) and Windows 7 (64 bit)
Compatible systems for running AppBot: Windows 8.1 (64 bit) and Windows 7 (32 bit)
Tested packages: Windows XP (32 bit), Office 2003 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Notepad++, 7-Zip, Firefox, MagicIso, NVU, OpenVpn, Sqvaw, VLC Player, WinSCP, XmlNotepad
Architecture-related restrictions
Due to technical reasons concerning application streaming, some feature are missing:
No App-V 5.0 SP 2 context menu support in this version (e.g. WinZip, WinRAR)
Services
Device drivers
Update of packages
Planned features
Bulk operations
Command line interface
A "real usable\ converter for App-V 4.6 packages
Automatic export to ThinApp
Package wizard
Support of the old Streaming Proler format
Support of proler scripts in App-V 5
Update support (updates created with the Citrix Streaming Progiler)
Installing AppBot
Prerequisites
To guarantee the correct function of AppBot, there are certain system requirements: Windows 7 (32/64 bit ) or Windows 8/8.1 (32/64 bit)
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