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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

Implementing ThinDirect


Many customers are struggling with a one browser policy. Using one browser that has to support all web applications often means you freeze your browser at a certain version and keep dependencies such as, Java and others, locked down. Updating the browser becomes a huge project that can span for a year (honestly I've seen multiple year long projects). ThinDirect offers you a way out of this hurdle. It's often only a couple of very critical web applications that force you to use a certain version of a browser, having specific settings or being stuck with an outdated dependency. Being able to switch browser on a per web application basis, seamless to the user, is very powerful.

Historically, ThinDirect has been associated quite heavily with virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). While this still is a valid use case, I would like to move the focus away from IE6 and different versions of the browser, and focus more on browser settings and different dependencies. If one...

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