Using MSI as the deployment method for your updates fits all categories of updates, since it reuses existing processes. If you deploy new applications and packages with the help of MSI, why not use the same process for deploying updates? I fully understand that kind of reasoning. Using MSI might not be the most effective method when taking bandwidth and speed into consideration, but using processes already in place are often more important. Using MSI to deploy a new version of your package will require the whole package to be downloaded by your clients. The MSI that ThinApp generates is capable of replacing existing deployments. The parameters in use for a successful replacement of existing packages are MSIProductVersion, MSIProductCode, and MSIUpgradeCode found in the MSI section of Package.ini. If you create your new version of the package by modifying the old project folder, you should only have to activate and change the MSIProductVersion value, providing...
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Application Virtualization
Application Packaging
Deployment of ThinApp Packages
Updating and Tweaking Your ThinApp Project
How to Distribute Updates
Design and Implementation Considerations using ThinApp
Troubleshooting
References
Index
Customer Reviews