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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
Book Image

VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Design and Implementation Considerations using ThinApp

In previous chapters, you've learned how to create and deploy ThinApp packages, as well as how to create and deploy updates. Now it's time to have a look at some different design and implementation consideration. This chapter is to be considered as a discussion more than best practices written in stone. ThinApp offers truly unique flexibility. The problem is that all this flexibility can become a bit overwhelming. It's hard to give you a recommended ThinApp design in this book, because all environments are unique.

In this chapter we'll discuss:

  • Protecting your packages

  • Isolation mode considerations

  • Sandbox design

  • ThinDirect

  • Designing for a physical desktop, virtual desktop, or mixed environment

  • Streaming share sizing