I am trying to ThinApp a plugin for Excel called PowerPivot. I have tried two major approaches; Excel and the plugin virtualized together in a bubble and capturing just the Plugin. In both instances I get the error: "Microsoft Office cannot verify the license for this application. A repair attempt failed or was canceled by the user. The application will now shutdown." We are using a KMS server for our MS licensing.
The bubble version had lots of issues and was huge. When I captured just the plugin it launches and I can see the tab from the plugin before the error pops up so I believe if I can get it to register its license it has a good chance of working.
My process:
I referenced this KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007144
Copy Office and PowerPivot to Desktop of clean Win7 capture machine.
Disable NIC, Install Office ProPlus 2010.
Stop OfficeSoftwareProtection service.
PRESCAN
Install PowerPivot
POSTSCAN
I tried both WriteCopy isolation and merged isolation.
Add to Package.ini:
[excel.exe]
source=%programfilesdir%\Microsoft Office\Office14\excel.exe
shortcut=PowerPivot.dat
disabled=0
In project folder: Go to %ProgramFilesDir% create "Microsoft Office" folder. Inside that folder create "Office14" folder.
BUILD
It sucks in the excel.exe from the build machine and places it in the bin folder. I feel that the excel.exe is looking in the .dat file registry to find its license so the fact that its already licensed on the image isn't registering with excel.exe. Is there something I can add to the package.ini that will tell excel.exe to look to the real registry for settings? We use a KMS server for Windows licensing. I have tried editing the config.xml file in the Office installation before installing Office on the capture machine to point specifically to our KMS server. That worked when I Thinapp'd Project and Visio standard but didn't work this time.
Environment: Windows 7 desktops linked clones with Office 2010 Pro Plus installed on the Gold image.
Plugin: PowerPivot for Excel.
Capture machine Windows 7 clean
Windows licensing is done with a KMS server.
Thinapp version 4.7.2