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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

Application Sync (AppSync)


Application Sync or AppSync is another unique ThinApp update method. AppSync was designed to help deal with the management of applications on unmanaged devices. Typical case of usage is a consultant having his/her own computer, and you have to provide an application to the consultant. Using AppSync you are able to maintain the application on the consultant's machine without the need of a locally installed management agent. AppSync can be run with the help of the standalone tool, AppSync.exe found in the ThinApp utilities folder. But most of the time you use the built-in AppSync feature in your packages.

When a package has AppSync activated, it will check for an updated version of itself when it's started. The check for update and the download of any updated version all happens in the background, seamless to the user. If there's a new version available, the package will download only the blocks that are different. When all the changed blocks have successfully been...

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