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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

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By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

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.
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Using alternative media and methods


In order to use an application packaged with ThinApp, all you need access to is the package. This gives you unique flexibility. There are many ways to provide access to the package. You can store it on a USB key and give the USB key to your user. You can use Dropbox or any other file sharing method to distribute the packages to the end users. I'm not saying you should throw out any existing deployment tool you may have in place. But you should consider using alternative methods if you don't have an effective method of managing applications today. Let's say you have to deploy an application to a couple of contractors. Simply create a Dropbox share, put the application package on the share, invite all the contractors and you're done! No deployment tool agent needs to be installed on the contractors' machines and so you have not altered the contractors' machines in any way.

If you place your package on a USB key, you have your application with you anywhere...

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