The following lists are intended to give guidance on what types of applications are compatible with FlexApp. These lists are not exhaustive and are updated based on Liquidware internal testing as well as customer feedback collected through our Support Team. Given the nature of applications and their diversity, it is impossible to list all possible capture complications that may occur. Liquidware also maintains a list of application capture recipes that is updated through customer feedback. We encourage you to review the FlexApp Recipes before starting a new capture.
Supported Application Types
- ActiveX
- Browser plug-Ins
- Office plug-Ins
- COM+
- COM DLL
- DCOM
- Services
- Apps that use AppData Local
- Apps that use AppData Roaming
- Shell extensions
- Shell content menus
- Software-based drivers
- PDF printers
- Image printers
- Applications that need updated fonts in the system
- MSI-based installers
- EXE-based installers
- EXEs that spawn MSIs
- ClickOnce
- Applications containing relationship files (.rels)
- Applications with Plug and Play drivers
Non-Supported Application Types
- Applications that edit the Local Group Policy
- Drivers needed on boot
- Antivirus—If the antivirus software needs its driver on boot, it is currently not supported, but most work with FlexApp “On Service Start” for its driver at login.
- Applications where the licensing is tied to the computer it was installed on
- Applications that create local user accounts.
- Windows features and roles such as RSAT or Linux Subsystem.
- Desktop connection broker clients (Citrix, VMware, etc.)
- VPN
- Applications that install/modify kernel drivers
- Applications starting before kernel
- 16-bit applications
- Applications that rely on user specifics
- Applications that reference machine characteristics
- OS component modifications
