Book description
Learn how to quickly and efficiently virtualize your applications with ThinApp 4.7
- Practical book which provides the essentials of application virtualization with ThinApp 4.7
- Learn the various methods and best practices of application packaging and deployment
- Save money and time on your projects with this book by learning how to create portable applications
In Detail
VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable.
"VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed.
Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed.
VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing.
In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of contents
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
- Table of Contents
- VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Application Virtualization
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2. Application Packaging
- Packaging
- Running the Setup Capture wizard
- The capture and build environment
- Entry points and the data container
- The project folder
- The Package.ini file
- Isolation mode considerations
- Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6
- The recommended ThinApp capture process
- Some packaging tips
- VB Scripting
- Packaging applications with dependencies
- Summary
- 3. Deployment of ThinApp Packages
- 4. Updating and Tweaking Your ThinApp Project
- 5. How to Distribute Updates
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6. Design and Implementation Considerations using ThinApp
- Protecting your packages
- Default isolation modes
- Sandbox considerations
- Implementing ThinDirect
- Designing for a physical client implementation
- Designing for a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) implementation
- Designing for a terminal server/Citrix XenApp implementation
- Designing for a mixed environment
- Sizing of your streaming file share
- Summary
- 7. Troubleshooting
- A. References
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849686280
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