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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

Common troubleshooting tools


The tools you use for troubleshooting are often referred to as troubleshooting tools. I prefer to call them data collecting tools. I’ve yet to see a troubleshooting tool that presents me with a dialog box, and tells me what the root cause of the issue is. All tools used to troubleshoot are tools that provide you with as much data as possible. Using your experience and knowledge, you filter through the data and can hopefully find the root cause of the issue. When you turn to these data collecting tools you’ll spend a significant amount of time digesting all the data.

Whatever tool you are accustomed to using when packaging a traditional MSI package, should and can be used for troubleshooting ThinApp packages. Here’s a list of common tools that I use. You may have others and you should be able to continue using those.

Process Explorer

Process Explorer from Sysinternals, now owned by Microsoft, is a great tool for finding out what is running on your machine. It is...