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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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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

Sandbox considerations


To be sandboxed or not to be sandboxed? That is the question. In my opinion, the smaller the sandbox is, the better. Just because ThinApp offers the sandbox functionality, I can see no reason to sandbox everything. I use the sandbox when there is a true design or application functionality reason to use it. However, client design reasons could dictate you to store as much as possible in the sandbox. You may not have a profile management tool in place or you have the need to keep the client environment absolutely clean. For you to able to revert your package into a vanilla state by simply deleting the sandbox might also be a reason.

All are very valid reasons for keeping as much as possible in the sandbox. You may not have profile management in place or the need to keep the client environment absolutely clean. Both are very valid reasons for keeping as much as possible in the sandbox. But if you already have a profile management tool in place, or simply have dedicated...