Explores Application Workspace concepts and complements the core documentation by highlighting details that are essential but often overlooked.
Articles offer practical insights and context, helping you understand how Application Workspace components fit together and how to use them effectively in real-world scenarios.
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Agent Heartbeat
The sends heartbeat messages to the zone, even when it’s already connected, to check that the connection is still working. If the connection drops, the Agent goes into offline mode and keeps trying to reestablish contact, which may look like persist...
Application Workspace Launcher
The Application Workspace Launcher is the desktop client version of the Web Launcher. It replicates the same functionality except for a few differences, but runs as a desktop app on Windows and macOS operating systems. The Launcher requires the App...
Application Workspace Server certificate logic
When the Application Workspace Server receives a request for a domain, it looks up the domain in the database's virtual domain list.
If a match is found, the server checks if a certificate is configured for this virtual domain.
If ther...
Contact Synchronization
Automatic Contact Synchronization
The Application Workspace System automatically synchronizes your contacts across a variety of identity sources, including LDAP-based directories such as Active Directory, JumpCloud, and eDirectory, as well as...
Domain customization via contexts
Customizing user experience accessing a specific Application Workspace domain with the Contexts Functionality
Using multiple domains is useful when your organization undergoes a name change or if you want multiple organizations to connect to the s...
DTAP overview
Development, testing, acceptance, and production (DTAP) is a multi-phase method for software testing and deployment. The four letters in DTAP indicate the following frequent steps:
Development
Test
Acceptance
Production
Let’s have a lo...
Group creation & synchronization
Currently, it is not possible to add, remove or edit any groups.
However, it is possible to synchronise the groups from identity sources:
LDAP - Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud or eDirectory.
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
It is done...
Managed apps overview
Managed means that every time the product manufacturer releases a new version of the product, the Application Workspace Setup Store connector updates the package you created with the latest version.
Let's consider the Brave browser as a package.
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Microsoft apps in Setup Store vs Microsoft connectors
With the Microsoft Store connector, you can create managed packages for (free) UWP apps (Appx or MSIX) available in the Microsoft Store.
On the other hand, Application Workspace Setup Store offers traditional setup types like EXE, MSP, MSI and MSIX...
Repairing a package
In some cases, an app can get corrupted or for example, the cache reaches a storage size that requires cleanup. In these cases, you need to use the repair option for that specific application.
There are two ways in which you can configure the repai...