VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

Learn how to quickly and efficiently virtualize your applications with ThinApp 4.7

Overview

• 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.

What you will learn from this book

• Concepts behind Application Virtualization
• ThinApp architecture and vocabulary
• Application Linking
• Application packaging process and best practices
• Various methods to deploy ThinApp packages
• How to update your ThinApp project
• ThinApp 4.7 design and implementation best practices
• ThinApp troubleshooting

Approach

This book is written in practical tutorial style and it offers learning through vivid examples and. Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that you can read it from start to end for beginners or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference for advanced users.

Who this book is written for

This book will be useful to developers, System admins and consultants who want to install and manage a virtualized app environment using VMware ThinApp 4.7

Peter Björk

Peter Björk has many years of ThinApp experience. He started out working with Thinstall, and continued after VMware acquired the product in 2008, renaming it ThinApp. Peter supports ThinApp in the EMEA region. As a teacher, Peter has educated many ThinApp packagers around the world. Peter lives in Sweden with his wife and two kids, a boy and a girl.