How to Install Foxit Addon

In this blog, I will explain how to add a new application to personalization and some specific includes and excludes for Foxit Reader using AppSense Environment Manager.

First thing to note is that we are using AppSense Environment Manager 8.3.1.57 (apologies if the screenshots vary from your version).

To start, open Environment Manager (EM) and navigate to 'Application Groups' in the toolbar. Click on the 'Add Application Group' button to create a new group. Name this group 'Foxit' – IMPORTANT: You cannot call your application group the same as your recently defined user application.

Next, click on the 'Ok' button to confirm the creation of the new group. We now have a new user application defined in our EM console.

If you try and call it the same as an already defined item, you will be prompted with a message box to that effect.

To add the details of the application we want EM to start personalizing, click on the 'Add Application' icon on the toolbar. Drill down the tree to 'Applications' – 'Application Categories' and then highlight 'User'.

Next, click on the User Personalization pane (circled below) and connect to your personalization server (PS).

In this case, we are using Foxit Reader Enterprise 5.45. We needed to personalize the Foxit App with AppSense. This worked a treat, our customers could now preview PDF documents in Explorer and the Microsoft Outlook 2010 preview pane.

We installed Foxit Reader into our Gold Windows 7 64bit image which replaced the already installed Adobe preview handler. Adobe have a longstanding problem with their preview handler in the 64-bit version of their reader.

By following these steps, you should be able to successfully install and personalize the Foxit addon using AppSense Environment Manager.

How to install foxit addon